No File Properties listed in MOV files [Show File Properties

[teredactle]

Hi,

I'm trying to rename video files with <($System.Media.DateEncoded)> as prefix, which is working great on MP4 files. However with MOV files this doesn't seem to work.
When I do a "Show File Properties" in BRU on an MP4 file, it shows me all the attributes.
When I do a "Show File Properties" in BRU on a MOV file, it shows nothing, no fields whatsoever.

I can confirm that both types of files contain the date I want to pull, using EXIF tool. Is this some sort of bug in BRU? Or some issue with MOV files?
I've installed the latest version thinking this is the issue, but it's still not working.
I've also looked at changing the container to MP4, but it seems to drop the metadata >> for %f in (*.mov) do ffmpeg -i "%f" -c:v copy -c:a copy "%~nf.mp4" perhaps there is an option I need to add (this changes the container for all files in a folder which is nice)

Would appreciate some assistance!

>>As an aside, can we add this option ==> <($System.Media.DateEncoded)> as a dropdown prefix somewhere, or something of the like.
Lots of people doing video file renaming and this would be awesome to have!
I'm on Windows.

TY

[Admin]

Hi, does Window show the correct file properties for MOV files?

[teredactle]

Yes, I do see that it does not, I thought I checked that before posting - obviously if BRU uses the file properties to get the info, it won't have anything.
That's my bad, apologies for wasting time, thanks for the sanity check.

However, using ExifTool on the MOV file, I do see that the tag <ExifTool:CreationDate> will bring in the correct Date/Time stamp to the local time; would be wonderful to be able to be able to rename using Exif data in video files; is there any chance that this option will be coming/implemented? Apologies if this has been asked and answered.

I will add this, seems relevant to what I'm trying to do, in particular to MP4 files off iPhones, because on Android with google photos, downloading them I have no issue with getting the correct ItemDate, works fine.

>>Using Exiftool to check my sanity on video clips in order to rename them according to the date/time they were actually taken, so local time.

<ExifTool:CreateDate> comes back with 2024_08_02_01_42_08 (this looks like it's UTC time, so UTC-5 for EST DST makes it 2024.08.01.20.42.08 < however this is sill not accurate despite the conversion as the minute mark is wrong, should be 22 (see below)
<ExifTool:DateTimeOriginal> comes back with **2024_08_01_20_22_42** - this is in fact the correct date/time stamp of the video clip, local time which is what I'm looking for.

If I check with BRU the date/time, I have only 2 options:

AutoDate > Item Date - 2024.08.01.21.42.00 this has the wrong minute, and is also off by 1 hour, should be 20 (8pm) not 21 (9pm)

Using <($System.ItemDate)> in the Add field give me the same as above 2024.08.01.21.42.00, also wrong.

When I check show list of file properties, check all the date/time fields, none of them are actually correct.