Whilst developing code to add/edit tags and usercomments to files so that they can be indexed by Everything 1.5's support for 'properties' I noticed that some .MOV files (ex iPhone) could be successfully tagged by Opus but the tags were not being found by Everything and were not visible in the Windows Properties dialog. After noting that only recent .MOV files were affected and following discussion on the Everything 1.5 Alpha Forum the issue has been pinned down to a change in iOS18. Pre iOS18 videos are not affected.
Another issue with iOS18 videos is that thumbnails are not visible. This turns out to be due to the same change. Both issues can easily be fixed using a recent version of exiftool
(at least v13.09) with the caveat that the 'fix' removes any tags, usercomments and ratings that you might have added with Opus. As long as you don't use the -overwrite_original
option there is no risk and any missing metadata can be added back afterwards to the copy created by exiftool
.
The relevant command to remove the problem is:
exiftool -m -P -Keys:FullFrameRatePlaybackIntent= iOS18.mov
..where you would substitute your filename in place of iOS18.mov
in this example. This will create a fixed copy of your original video.