batch adjusting capture time by minutes in lightroom2

<p>Hi there;<br>

I thought it would be easy to find the answer to this question, but I've been searching awhile now with no results. <br>

My partner and I shot a wedding together, and when we got the files uploaded into lightroom, we realized one of our cameras was off by 6 minutes and 50 seconds. I really thought I had run into this before and come up with a solution, but it seems Lightroom only allows you to adjust the capture time by hours and not minutes. <br>

I selected all of my partner's images and tried to change the metadata by going to Metadata<br>

There are hundreds of files and far to many to do it manually or individually. Can anyone offer some advice? Is this something that would be easier to do in Bridge?<br>

Thanks in advance for you help;<br>

Stephanie</p>

I thought Lightroom allowed changing down to the second but, if you can't get that kind of granularity in

Lightroom, try Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits so you can at least fix this immediately:

http://www.camerabits.com/pages/demoreg.cgi (20-day free demo)

 

Although I primarily use Lightroom I still have a place in my toolbox for Photo Mechanic for browsing

undumped cards and raw directories (make sure you're working on a copy when you change the date just

in case).

<p>I've never had the need to do this in LR. I always sync the timestamp on my cameras before shooting. (Using EOS utility for Canon). It only takes a few seconds.</p>

<p>But with 2 separate shooters maybe showing up at a venue separately and at different times... I can see the problems this might pose.</p>

<p>Thank you Sean! That's pretty slick! I had never heard of that program before! :)<br>

Stephanie</p>

<p>Yup, Photo Mechanic is definitely a really useful program. I still use it a lot, but somewhat less as LR is becoming more capable.</p>

<p>Tom M.</p>

<p>You can adjust to the minute and second in LR. Here's how:</p>

 

<ol>

<li>Select the images you want to change.</li>

<li>Choose Metadata>Edit Capture Time.</li>

<li>In the Edit Capture Time dialog box, select, "Adjust To A Specified Date And Time".</li>

<li>Enter the new time you want for the active image of the selection.</li>

<li>All the other image's capture times will be adjusted by the same amount of time.</li>

</ol>

<p>Here's the Adobe page on it: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/WS57264460-DC72-4a1f-A665-1E90907A9FFD.html</p>

 

<p>Make sure you are in the Grid mode on the Library Module when editing the capture time in a batch, it won't work in Develop mode.</p>

<p>What Victoria said. Make sure you're in the GRID mode in Library module. This is the same with LR3 and LR1. In fact I think it is overflow from RSP/RSE.</p>

<p>Josh's procedure is spot on. I have to do this for virtually every wedding I shoot because my second shooter and I always forget to sync cameras before the day starts. So I just pick an image that we both shot at the same time (usually the kiss or something easy to identify) and calculate how much off our capture times are. Then, in GRID mode, I isolate my second shooters images, select all, and follow the procedure outlines by Josh.</p>

<p>Works perfectly every time.</p>

<p>And you can select the images of the second shooter with Metdata filter > Camera serial number > choose the serial number of the camera of the second shooter > select all (Ctrl+A) and then do what Josh Laronge wrote. This works best if you and your second shooter have the same camera model. Good luck and good light.<br>

A.</p>

<p>I've addressed this before. In Lightroom's dialog, you have to make adjustments by selecting the hours, minutes, or seconds to make finite adjustments. It is NOT obvious at first glance.</p>