Movie metadata without camera?

[xbourque]

Hi everybody,

Is there any way to get clip metadata from movie files without access to the camera?

Especially shutter speed, ISO and aperture.

I have a feeling the .CPI files on the memory card might hold the information but I'm not sure what software would read it.

Mac solution prefered, but Windows is OK too.

Heck, the CPI files look tiny. If anybody can point me to the format specification, I can even write a quick and dirty command line reader.

-X

 

[Martti Ekstrand]

Well there's VideoSpec

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/videospec.html

and then Dumpster which is much more unsophisticated but also allows you to edit the metadata (do it on copied files, no warning if you edit parameters outside of working range)

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/

I use Dumpster to edit the fps metatags on 50p clips I want to slo-mo to 25. Wish somebody could make a simple GUi app for this instead. Or maybe there is one, grateful for tips

Now back to your basic question; with either app I haven't seen the info you are looking for but it might be in there, haven't tried finding it.

 

[pailes]

I have a feeling the .CPI files on the memory card might hold the information but I'm not sure what software would read it.

No those files do hold additional information about the stream files and where they are located on the play list timeline and so on. It's all AVCHD related, no camera specific metadata in those files.

 

[Kevin I]

Cycling through the info displays on the camera when playing back video clips, there is no record of aperture, shutter, iso, white balance, etc. that was used.

All this information is available for still photos, but it seems the camera does not record settings in video mode -- very unfortunate.

 

[xbourque]

Cycling through the info displays on the camera when playing back video clips, there is no record of aperture, shutter, iso, white balance, etc. that was used.

All this information is available for still photos, but it seems the camera does not record settings in video mode -- very unfortunate.

Too bad. Thanks everybody for the suggestions though.

-- X