Hacks

Image renaming by create date

When you have a bunch of files from your old Android phone with a timestamp filename (e.g. 1388042328550.jpg), you can rename them thus:

for f in 1*.jpg; do
  mv $f $(date +IMG_%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.jpg -d @$(echo $f|cut -c 1-10))
done

Otherwise, we can fish out the Create Date from the EXIF data, using exiftool:

exiftool '-FileName<CreateDate' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e .

Repair broken or rotated phone videos

You can fix broken video .tmp files from your Android phone using untrunc. This will create a fixed.mp4 file in cwd:

untrunc working_video_from_the_same_camera.mp4 broken.mk4.tmp

Did your phone unhelpfully rotate your video? Fix the metadata:

ffmpeg -i original.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=0 unrotated.mp4

Or, did you actually film your shit the wrong way up? You'll need to re-encode it:

ffmpeg -i original.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec libx264 -crf 20 -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=0 unrotated.mp4

Export your photos

Before uploading your photos, remove all the EXIF tags, and reduce the resolution; nobody needs 5000x4000 pixels, much less corporations hoovering up your stuff to put in adverts.

mkdir tmp
for f in $.jpg; do
  convert -resize 1600x1200 $f tmp/$f
  exiftool -all= -P -overwrite_original tmp/$f
done