Multi Rename EXIF data not working with CR3 Files

[JPL75]

Hello,

I am using FreeCommander's multi rename to add [exif_taken] in front of the names of my pictures. FreeCommander is extremely flexible.

Unless I am mistaken, latest 900 version still works with CR2 files, but not with the new Canon CR3 file format. This is very penalizing.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jean-Pierre
Lifetime donnor

[Marek]

"Picture - EXIF" in multi rename is primary for jpg files and may not work with other files.
"exiftool" should work with CR2 and CR3 - use 903 release.

[JPL75]

Thanks for the quick reply.

This is very unfortunate. "Picture - EXIF" is working very well with CR2 files. I have trouble finding how to use ExifTool to add [Exif_Taken] in the file name.

Thanks in any case

Jean-Pierre

[JPL75]

I had a further look a your help file and understand better your answer : you provide acces to Exif Data through ExifTool. So there should be a way to achieve what I need, through use of this tool. Great.

However, I still have an issue.

I installed version 903. I installed ExifTool (latest version) and made a link to it through Tools > Settings > View > Viewer > ViewerSetings then Tab Metadata/Exif where I put the link C:\Program Files\ExifTool\exiftool(-k).exe and checked "Use ExifTool". I closed the settings and reopened, to ckekk that everything is OK.


Then, I tried MultiRename vith the ExifTool Tag {exift_DateTimeOriginal].

FreeCommander XE got stuck (no activity see in task Manager) and I had to kill it. When I restart, the viewer settings are lost.

I hope you can help.
Thanks in advance.
Jean-Pierre

[Timon]

Works fine for me in FC XE 903 32-bit with exiftool.exe version 12.73

Use exiftool.exe for showing metadata/exif is Unchecked

Tried MultiRename 5 jpg files with the ExifTool Tag [exift_DateTimeOriginal].

It feels like when you first start the MultiRename process - everything works very slow. If you run it again, it works many times faster.

Tested with exiftool.exe versions 12.65 and 12.73 (current)

[JPL75]

Thanks Timon.
You led me to review my installation. This is the first time that I use Exiftool. And read again installation instructions.
I had not removed the (-k) in the file name.
Now it seems working fine and fast enough.
Thanks to Marek and to you
Jean-Pierre

Note: 64 bits version. It seem that leaving « use exiftool » checked or unchecked has no impact.

[Timon]

For me the (-k) in the file name does not affect the result at all.

My exiftool path: %FcSrcPath%\plugins\ExifTool\exiftool(-k).exe

[JPL75]

Thanks again for all your support.

Switching to exiftool tags helps me also for video file.

In case, it may help others, I now use the following tags to rename my multimedia files :
for JPG : [exif_taken]
for MOV (iPhone) : [exift_CreationDate]
for MP4 (camera) : [exift_DateTimeOriginal]
for CR3 : [exift_DateTimeOriginal]

As I have not found a solution to apply TimeStamp format to ExifTool tags, I use a regular expression in the Search/Replace Field to normalize format of these tags.