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QuickTime Player has a very robust dictionary and may be able to help
you.
On Jun 17, 2008, at 12:25 AM, BareFeet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Short question:
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> How can I get the recordDate (ie date that the clip was first
> recorded on a video camera) from a DV video clip?
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> More detail:
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> I have a pile of DV video clips. When I open them in iMovie HD 6 or
> CatDV, they can show the recorded date. But I can't see anyway to
> see the recorded date in QuickTime player or the System Events
> AppleScript dictionary, or the Image Events AppleScript dictionary,
> or any other way to extract the recordDate programatically.
>
> The Finder's creation date is a different date since iMovie
> somewhere along the way has set it to the date that the footage was
> dumped from camera to disk or when the clip was split etc.
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> My main purpose in doing this is so I can correct the date that
> iMovie 08 uses for the clips since importing older projects ignores
> the recorded date and instead uses the (incorrect) creation date.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
> BareFeet
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