Script still works after 10 years! Add exiftool matrix info for geeky output?

[mackonsti]

Hello and a huge thanks for your script. I've been searching many times the net for a solution and somewhat did not stumble all these years, but tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had found a very nice and clean solution with ffmpeg (keeping most of the iOS metadata but MOV to MP4) but your script is a gem; those 4 bytes changed, made all the difference (binary-compared original MOV and rotated MOV files).

Your 10-year old script works on a Mac running High Sierra 10.13.5 and iOS 12.3.1 movies (H.264). I just really wanted to express my sincere thanks.

Would it be too geeky to add exiftool's (if it exists on the system) composition matrix structure just for showing what changed? Before and after conversion?

exiftool to-fix.mov -rotation -matrixstructure -G0:1 -a
[Composite:Main] Rotation                      : 90
[QuickTime] Matrix Structure                   : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track1] Matrix Structure            : 0 1 0 -1 0 0 1080 0 1
[QuickTime:Track2] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track3] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track4] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

exiftool fixed.mov -rotation -matrixstructure -G0:1 -a
[Composite:Main] Rotation                      : 0
[QuickTime] Matrix Structure                   : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track1] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track2] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track3] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[QuickTime:Track4] Matrix Structure            : 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1

In any case, thanks, this is a mere suggestion ;-)

The idea came from this thread post.

Huge thanks again!