[Shotwell] Moving items from No Event

Adam Dingle adam at yorba.org
Wed Nov 10 11:43:33 PST 2010


On 11/10/2010 08:07 AM, Adam Dingle wrote:
>
> Right. Unfortunately, most common video container formats don't seem 
> to have metadata indicating when a video was filmed, as far as we 
> know. So any video you import from your hard drive will end up in No 
> Event. If you import videos directly from a camera, Shotwell will put 
> them into events according to the date they were filmed.

I looked into this more today, and found that for the very common 
Quicktime/MP4 container format we should actually be able to get 
metadata indicating when a movie was filmed.  See 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2796 for details.  I hope we can implement 
this for 0.8.

adam



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