Still refining my Panasonic GH4 post-production workflow here and I discovered a couple of useful things in the last couple of days. These almost certainly apply to other cameras too...
Firstly, I was looking for a Windows program that can name video files on ingest according to the shooting date and time. I'm so used to having that information from my DV and HDV capture programs (Sclive and HDVSplit). I use it for example to help me identify which dive site I was at when I shot the clips. Also I'm running 2 camera bodies, several SD cards, and I want to avoid duplicate filenames.
Having researched/tested loads of ingest options, I've discovered that Lightroom (yes, really) is the only one that can dig the shooting time and date out of the exif data during "import" and rename the files accordingly. It can also append the original filename, so my filenames now look like this: 150123-083709-P1040483.MP4. i.e. Date-Time-Original-Filename.
As far as I can tell, this could not be done by PHOTOfunSTUDIO, Catalyst Prepare, Bulletproof, Offload, Prelude or Shotput Pro. On the downside I don't think it's doing a checksum verification as such (as some of those other do), but it makes a nice report if it fails to ingest a file or ingests a file that it cannot decode. Also I found it a little slower than PHOTOfunSTUDIO but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Secondly ExifTool along with ExifToolGUI can access the data in your GH* video files and show tons of information about camera settings etc.. More than Panasonic's own PHOTOfunSTUDIO can. Really useful tool.
EDIT: Screen grabs don't seem to be displaying. You can see them at [url=http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21489814/ExifTool-Exif.png] and [url=http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21489814/ExifTool-Master.png].
Firstly, I was looking for a Windows program that can name video files on ingest according to the shooting date and time. I'm so used to having that information from my DV and HDV capture programs (Sclive and HDVSplit). I use it for example to help me identify which dive site I was at when I shot the clips. Also I'm running 2 camera bodies, several SD cards, and I want to avoid duplicate filenames.
Having researched/tested loads of ingest options, I've discovered that Lightroom (yes, really) is the only one that can dig the shooting time and date out of the exif data during "import" and rename the files accordingly. It can also append the original filename, so my filenames now look like this: 150123-083709-P1040483.MP4. i.e. Date-Time-Original-Filename.
As far as I can tell, this could not be done by PHOTOfunSTUDIO, Catalyst Prepare, Bulletproof, Offload, Prelude or Shotput Pro. On the downside I don't think it's doing a checksum verification as such (as some of those other do), but it makes a nice report if it fails to ingest a file or ingests a file that it cannot decode. Also I found it a little slower than PHOTOfunSTUDIO but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Secondly ExifTool along with ExifToolGUI can access the data in your GH* video files and show tons of information about camera settings etc.. More than Panasonic's own PHOTOfunSTUDIO can. Really useful tool.
EDIT: Screen grabs don't seem to be displaying. You can see them at [url=http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21489814/ExifTool-Exif.png] and [url=http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21489814/ExifTool-Master.png].