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I have a set of photos and videos that shares a common tag in Shotwell. I'm able to verify those photo files in Nautilus and assert that this tag is written in it. This is confirmed either by exiftools. However, this does not happens in video files. Nautilus doesn't detect any tag, as well as exiftool.

This way, I'm supposing that Shotwell isn't writting this tag to video files. How can I fix this?

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Currently Shotwell Photo Manager doesn't support editing video metadata, as described in the Shotwell Help Files, the Shotwell mailing list, and the Shotwell Architecture Overview.


If you need a simple alternative option for single video metadata editing, I would suggest trying VLC.

Here's how to edit a videos' metadata using VLC.

  • Click VLC Install VLC to auto-open Software Center and select Install, or visit the Official page to download the source code or select another system/architecture.
  • Run VLC and open the video file you wish to change its metadata,
  • Go to Tools > Media Information, VLC Media Information and video metadata

  • or press Ctrl+i, to open the Current Media Information window and edit the media information. VLC Current Media Information window

  • Click Close to save any changes you have made and you are good to go.
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Currently, Shotwell does not support writing meta-data to video files.

Also, the official Bug tracker for requests is here

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Try setting preferences in shotwell to write directly to the file as shown below. If that doesn't work you might try to write a plugin to extend shotwell functionality.

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You can report bugs and ask questions of the developers here.

More information regarding Shotwell plugins:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell/Architecture/WritingPlugins http://unit201.net/2015/02/27/shotwell-plugins-part-i-setup/

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