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rawdawg

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Jan 7, 2009
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I used Lightroom extensively in the past. And I used it to back up my iPhone photos and videos. At some point I quit using LR because it wasn't handling iPhone media well. Videos imported upside down, it doesn't handle Live Images well, and I figured I should just go with the iCloud.

I've been fine on the iCloud but now years later I want to offload photos/videos to free up space. This is what I've learned about this very time consuming process:

Years ago (before I switched to iCloud) I was able to import videos into Lightroom and the time stamp was correct. At some point the videos began being imported with the wrong time. This was around time I began to give up on Lightroom.

At the time I didn't realize this was a result of the Videos being imported using UTC time whereas the photos were able to imported with Local Time.

Now that I know this I want to correct the only videos. But since I have so many it would take forever to find out when this switch over to UTC for videos started. Does anyone know?
 
It's beginning to appear that the videos have always been UTC. I guess I can't confirm that because my earliest iPhone videos are mixed amongst other video recorders for which no metadata distinguishes it different.
 
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