Organize Photo pool by date created?

rjkowalski wrote on 6/25/2017, 4:24 PM

I'm a longtime user of Movie Edit Pro but just bought PhotoStory to create a slideshow for a recent trip. I have pooled together the photos & videos from all travelers and can organize them in Microsoft explorer by the "date" field so that all photos group together by date/time created rather than file name. However, when I access the file folder from Photostory, it only allows sorting by "Modified" date or "Recording On" date. Neither one of these options accurately date stamps the original date/time each iphone/android photo was taken to allow sorting the photos in the correct organization. The metadata field of "date" needs to be used to accurately group the photos. Is there any way to do this?

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andrew-davies wrote on 2/25/2020, 6:41 AM

I have the same problem in new version of Photo story in Feb 2020 have you managed to find a fix

browj2 wrote on 2/25/2020, 8:12 AM

@andrew-davies

No. However, are your files not numbered in the order created, either sequentially or by date/time? That would be the logical way to have them in the order created.

Alternatively, use drag and drop from Windows Explorer, one by one.

John CB

rjkowalski wrote on 2/25/2020, 12:12 PM

It's sad to hear that the new version of Photo Story also doesn't allow sorting by metadata field "Date". I gave up on Photo Story & just used Movie Edit Pro for the photo show. I guess Photostory still only allows sorting by "Modified" date or "Recording On" date. Neither one of these options accurately date stamps the original date/time each iphone/android photo was taken to allow sorting the photos in the correct organization. The field of "date" from iphone and android metadata needs to be used to accurately group the photos - file names and other date fields don't work.

johnebaker wrote on 2/25/2020, 12:47 PM

@rjkowalski

The real issue is that various video recording devices do not use the Date options consistently or even support dates like Date recorded / Recording on.

The only 2 dates that are always used are Date Created and Date Modified irrespective of the recording device.

Date Created is the date and time the video file was created and Date Modified is the date and time the file was closed ie the end of the recording.

As an example, a 2 minute recording started at 10:00 am today would have the following timestamps

Date Created - 25/02/2020 10:00

Date Modified - 25/20/2020 10:02

HTH

John EB

browj2 wrote on 2/25/2020, 2:00 PM

@rjkowalski

I'm curious. Why would you get/use PhotoStory instead of Move Edit Pro Plus/Premium when you have MEP?

MEPP does everything (almost) that PhotoStory does and a lot more. Creating slideshows (videos of photos) is the same in both products. The big difference is that MEPP has more and better editing tools which can save you a lot of time and grief, and access to more tracks.

John CB

rjkowalski wrote on 2/25/2020, 4:08 PM

@browj2 8 of us traveled together and all took photos. The biggest challenge is always organizing all the photos by time/date stamp. In this case, I made sure everyone had the right date/time set in their camera (phone). In this particular case, it would have worked if Photo Story would let me choose what metadata field I could use to put them in order. As far as I know, I can't throw a thousand photos into MEP and let it sort them any better. My ideal Photo organization software would let me choose what metadata to use to roughly sort them and throw them up on a big monitor to move & delete as if they were photos on a wall.

johnebaker wrote on 2/25/2020, 6:48 PM

@rjkowalski

. . . . My ideal Photo organization software would let me choose what metadata to use to roughly sort them . . . .

You could use a program such as Bulk Rename or Advanced Renamer to transfer the recording date to the Date created or Date Modified field.

Alternatively change the filename to incorporate the date - Advnaced Renamer is easier to use for this, if you do this ensure the filename starts with the date in the format yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm to enable sorting to function correctly.

HTH

John EB