I took a bunch of photos and video on my iPhone X and I wanted to share them with someone who has an older iPad (pre HEVC, etc.). When I convert, say, an HEIC photo to JPEG, in Finder it seems to adopt the creation and modify date of the export, not the original date. Only by sticking it in a photo EXIF editor (MetaImage) did I see that the original creation date was still there and referenced several times. When I uploaded it to their iCloud account, it seemed to sort properly and show the correct date.
With video, same thing. I export the HEVC file in Quicktime and in Finder, at least, it seems to adopt the creation and modify date of the export, not the original date. I used EXIFTOOL to look at the video and all the creation/modify references are for the export date except one.
Make : Apple
Model : iPhone X
Software : 13.1.2
Creation Date : 2019:10:12 20:06:25-05:00
Image Size : 3840x2160
The other references of creation shown in EXIFTOOL say "create date" not "creation date" and they all have the export date. Does anyone know whether this (the one posted above) is the value that Photos uses to sort by date? I don't have access to her iPad yet and I can't upload video to her iCloud account. This would be useful to know before I try to manually change the create date. Thanks.
With video, same thing. I export the HEVC file in Quicktime and in Finder, at least, it seems to adopt the creation and modify date of the export, not the original date. I used EXIFTOOL to look at the video and all the creation/modify references are for the export date except one.
Make : Apple
Model : iPhone X
Software : 13.1.2
Creation Date : 2019:10:12 20:06:25-05:00
Image Size : 3840x2160
The other references of creation shown in EXIFTOOL say "create date" not "creation date" and they all have the export date. Does anyone know whether this (the one posted above) is the value that Photos uses to sort by date? I don't have access to her iPad yet and I can't upload video to her iCloud account. This would be useful to know before I try to manually change the create date. Thanks.