I was trying to come up with a better way to flip through the SD card recordings from my V3’s and delete videos without having to fumble through endless folders. I thought about just doing a file type search for mp4’s and dragging them all to one folder (letting Windows rename the duplicates). Then, I think I’ve got at least one batch renamer utility that can create names from the date data in the headers or whatever. Problem is, the content of the date fields never makes any sense. The onscreen timestamp embedded in the videos is right on target and they are always located in the correct date/hour/minute folder, but the fields are usually off by something weird that doesn’t seem to match a wrong timezone or DST setting. I’m not even sure it’s always the exact same offset and it will do things like having the “created” field be newer than the “modified” one.
I may check some of the hidden fields to see if there’s something accurate in there I could pull names from, I just wondered if that’s a common issue or if I’ve got something set wrong. I sync the clocks periodically in the app, and I’m currently running cards that were formatted as exFAT by the camera itself, but I believe I’ve done it via computer as well. If it means anything, the cards often throw a “problem which needs to be fixed” pop-up when they get inserted on the Windows machines, but I stopped letting it mess with them long ago, as it usually tells me that chkdsk didn’t find any problems or something, so I figured the camera was just doing something wacky to them that the computer didn’t like.
Right now, I appear to be on firmware 4.36.11.7095 and version 2.50.2.442 of the app.
None that would do any good in this case, but if it’s a consistent GMT offset, I can probably fish around for something to fix it. I’ll compare some new/old files and see if it changes any.
I may have missed something, but is there anywhere to change that in the app or individual camera settings? AFAIK, the date and time for everything else on the phone are fine as is the aforementioned onscreen timestamp.
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Man, I hope not. I know there are a bunch of hidden optional fields you can sort things by in Windows, which I’d imagine are embedded somewhere in the files themselves, so even that could be in there.
Either way, having to convert them all manually wouldn’t really be an option (there’s hundreds of them).
Thanks!
PS- Of course things would be a whole lot easier if the app actually had any real control of the SD card. All through the day, it alerts me to stuff which turns out to be a leaf falling or something. If that trash icon in the event view would delete the actual recording, rather than just the “event” in the list, I could just periodically save the whole card and start over rather than weeding through all these nothing clips.
@PCHearn - Sorry I’m late getting back. I should have specified that I keep my cameras on “record events only”. I’m mainly watching for animal activity in the backyard, but there’s also one upstairs in the house. Needless to say, there are many “uneventful” events recorded, which are triggered by familiar animals or random objects blowing around. I take the cards to a laptop and dump them every few days, but I may flip through twenty videos or more without running into one I want to keep.
I probably need to work out a better system of weeding them out, but being able to delete them in the app, right after they occur, would make the most sense as I usually check to see exactly what the alert was for. By the time I move them all, I have no idea what they all were, so I have to flip through each and every one again.
