Arranging photos by "date taken" in a movie / slide show

Tim

Newbie Joined: Jul 02, 2008 03:07 Messages: 23 Offline

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Jul 25, 2008 23:58

I'm using PD7 and when I import photos and sort them by date, they aren't 100% in the right order.

In Windows Movie Maker 6, there is an option to arrange by "date taken" and when I do this, the order of the pictures are correct on my timeline. But it looks like because I have edited the photos in Picasa that the date PD sees is the date the file was exported from Picasa, not the date the photo was actually taken.

Any suggestions for getting the pics in order of "date taken"?

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Tim

Newbie Joined: Jul 02, 2008 03:07 Messages: 23 Offline

Nov 24, 2009 01:48

I'm replying to my own posting here hopes that it will elevate this post and that someone will have figured this out by now.

Again, since I edit my photos in Picasa, I would like to export the pictures with edits, then bring them into PowerDirector (ver 7). But when I do this PD looks at the export date, not the date the photo is taken. This makes it very difficult to order the photos by date in a video of several hundred pictures as they must all be ordered manually.

Thoughts anyone?

Tim

Newbie Joined: Jul 02, 2008 03:07 Messages: 23 Offline

Nov 24, 2009 02:00

PS - if you ask me, I think this is a programming bug since it picks up "date modified" rather than "date taken" for file sorting of still photos within PowerDirector.

vn800rider

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Nov 24, 2009 05:41

Hi Tim,

I'm not sure I'd call it a bug - I think PD is designed that way.You seem to be right in that it reads the date modified from the EXIF data rather than the original date.

Only thing I can suggest is to use an EXIF editor to reset the date modified to the original date.

Something like EXIFeditor will do the trick and I think you can batch process.

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Tim

Newbie Joined: Jul 02, 2008 03:07 Messages: 23 Offline

Nov 24, 2009 14:26

Thanks - I may try an editor. In the meantime, I went into windows explorer and grouped the files into folders by date taken. Then I renamed the files in batch giving it the date taken as a name and windows appends a numeric order (1), (2), (3) etc. to the filename. Only problem with that is, if I then sort by name in PD, PD treats the name as text so "10-17-09 (100)" comes before "10-17-09 (11)".

Frustrating. I'd still call the underlying problem a bug - or at least - a very poorly thought out "feature".

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