Add --auto-live to osxphotos import
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* Working on import fixes * Working on --check * More work on import check * Got import check working * Initial refactor of --check-not * Working on import code * Tests passing for import * Fixed reporting for import * Fixes #1470, apply sidecar to _edited photos, adds --edited-suffix * Implements #1373, --favorite-rating * Updated docs * Implemented --auto-live, #1399 * Normalizes unicode for album names, #1475 * Added height, width to PhotoInfoFromFile * Updated test names * Adds --signature to import, #1374 * Fix test for linux * Implements PR #1486 * Allow import to accept files or directories as argument * Fixed error with files_or_dirs * Added export_directory table * ExportDB updates to allow reading last export path * Added --runs to exportdb, updated exportdb tests * Added photoinfo_from_dict * Added photoinfo_from_dict tests * Added --exportdb to import * Stage files that need modification, added tests * Refactoring for maintainability * Refactoring for maintainability * Refactoring for maintainability * Changed verbose level * Fix for files with same stemp when --auto-live is not used * Handled edited version w/o AAE * removed print statemetns * Updated check, check not * Added tests for importing edited versions * Refactored to move import_cli code first in file * Working on _edited photos * Import of edited files now working * Updated content_tree to fallback to mdls if needed * Fixed image_file_utils for non-Spotlight volumes * Fixed image_file_utils for non-Spotlight volumes * Removed unneeded imports * Tests passing for renamed edited photos * Initial tests for import CLI utils * Initial tests for import CLI utils * Fixed regex for finding original / edited images * Typo (my bad!) on GoPro Pics filename standards. (#1551) * Added test images for import tests * Fix for edited live photos * Fixed skip if not macOS * Added test for edited live photo * Added clarification for --resume, --skip-dups, #802 * Fix for certain edited live photos * Reset counter * Added --exportdir * Fixed help formatting --------- Co-authored-by: oPromessa <mario@silvapereira.com>
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Reference below discussion. For importing live photos from Android, it would be helpful to automatically add the ContentIdentifier tags.
@Yorian, @oPromessa is right that there's a tag that needs to be in the image and video to be associated as a Live Photo. I've not done extensive testing but it appears to require the "Content Identifier" tag which is
MakerNotes:ContentIndentiferin the HEIC or JPG andQuickTime:ContentIdentifierin the video file. The value is a universally unique identifier (UUID) that must match for Photos to correlate the two. The UUID looks like:4636F170-F379-42AC-9CEA-20233E95936F(but each value is unique to the photo/video pair). You can set this via exiftool usingexiftool -ContentIdentifier="4636F170-F379-42AC-9CEA-20233E95936F" IMG_1234.jpg IMG_1234.movI've tested this with both HEIC and JPG + MOV and when you drag the two images into Photos they are matched as a live photo pair.osxphotos importcan also be used to import them.You can produce a UUID using this python one-liner:
python -c "import uuid; print(str(uuid.uuid4()).upper())"which will print out a unique UUID in the correct format. If you have any scripting skills, you could write a script to find matching JPG+MOV files, generate the UUID, and apply the tag using exiftool.It might be a useful feature for
osxphotos importto add ability to do this automatically. Perhapsosxphotos import --auto-liveand let osxphotos take care of tagging the images.Originally posted by @RhetTbull in #1398 (reply in thread)
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