Hi, I am new to Dopus.
In the Column selections I only find Date/Time tags which apparantly all are only system tags (FileModify/Access/Createdate) but no Quick Time CreateDate, CreationDate or DateTimeOriginal.
The Filedates are useless when working with e.g.videos where you need the tags of when the footage was taken.
Unfortunately even when I use Exiftool to copy QT Createdate to FileCreateDate, the FileCreatedate shows with UTC Time iso local time, and so does Dopus. However I need the local time of where and when the footage was taken (i.e. the QT CreateDate)
So, is Dopus really not able to display the QT CreateDate tag ?
regards
Manfred
To clarify a bit more: If a video was taken in NovaScotia on April 29 at 21:00 local time, the QT CreateDate is 2025:04:29 21:00:00 -3:00 (i.e. UTC -3) and e.g. Windows Explorer willl show correctly April 29 and 21:00 in the Create date column. My system time however is Germany, so FileCreateDate is 2025:04:30 02:00:00 +2 (german summertime). Dopus Create Date therefore shows April 30 and 2:00 because it uses the FileCreationDate
There are other date/time columns under the Movies and Picture Metadata categories which may have what you want.
If none of the built-in columns work for the date fields within those files, you can add any column from File Explorer into Opus via Preferences / File Display Columns / Shell Properties.
Thanks, I looked at that list. Maybe your software uses another nomenclature. I am used to Exiftool names. I don't find anything which looks like Quicktime CreateDate. Can you point me to that tag in Dopus ?
For Quicktime fields you'd need an add-in like ExifTool Custom Columns.
Checking with .mov files from my phone, the built-in Movies > Release Date column looks like it always contains the date/time the videos were taken (distinct from the filesystem's modified times, and matching the phone's metadata).
If that doesn't work for your files but File Explorer has a column which does, then that column should be listed under Preferences / File Display Columns / Shell Properties where you can enable it. After it's enabled, it can be turned on like any of the built-in columns.
On the Preferences page, you can drag a video on to the "Example file" field at the bottom of the window to see what each column reports for a specific file.
Make sure Group properties with data is also on (on the right side of the same area), so the columns that don't have anything for the file don't get in the way.
(But the built-in Release Date column looks like it does what you want, at least with the files from my phone.)
Thank you. I will try that.
Nevertheless, why is such an important field not available in the basic selections ?
the suggestion with preferences/shell does not work either, neither with the example file. all date/time stamps available only show the time in system time zone, not in time zone where the footage was taken. The files of course do have all these metadata, I see them in ExiftollGUI and also Windows Explorer shows the time in local time zone. I think this is a major disadvantage with Dopus.
Any column you see in Explorer can also be shown in Opus.
ok, I was wrong in one statement. Actually Windows Explorer does not show it either. It shows in ExiftoolGUI and in applications like Premiere Pro.
I guess that means Dopus cannot show it.
If it shows in ExifTool you should have a look at the link posted by lxp.
It is, as far as I can tell. The Release Date column which I mentioned above.
Dopus Release date column shows Greenwich summertime. My example file: taken April 29, 21:00 in Nova Scotia (UTC -3) = QT Create Date; system dates in Dopus show April 30, 2:00 (= UTC +2 , German Summertime), Dopus Release date column shows April 30, 1:00 (UTC +1 = Greenwich summertime). - I will try the addin. Thanks for all your help.
Just looked at the Exiftool addin link. Need again help on step 4: where do I find this Customize dialogbox or where do I enter "Toolbar NAME=ExifTool TOGGLE" ?
I managed to install the addin and all the Quick Time (and many more) columns are now available. CreateDate, CreationDate,DateTimeOriginal - but when I select them they remain all empty on my footage files. Is there another step I missed ?
Success. After restart the columns get populated . It still shows odd time on CreationDate and DateTimeOriginal but atleast the Quicktime CreateDate now shows the local time. That is all I need. Thanks again !!!
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