Download ExifTool 12.74

Phil Harvey has released version 12.74 of ExifTool. ExifTool is a free and cross-platform program that allows the metadata of a large number of files can be managed and edited. It works from the command line, but there are third party solutions available that allow it to be used with a graphical user interface as well. New versions are released regularly, but most releases are made available under the beta banner. This update is also referred to as a development version; the latest stable release is version 12.70. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 12.74

• Added a couple of new Nikon lenses (thanks Chris)
• Added write support for a few new QuickTime Keys tags
• Decode ShutterCount for Canon EOS R5 (thanks John Moyer)
• Improved error messages in the case of file read errors
• Enhanced tag name strings (eg. -if option expressions) to allow values ​​of multiple matching tags to be concatenated when a group name of “All” is specified
• Enhanced -p option to add -p- feature which avoids adding trailing newline
• Changed warning from “Shift results in negative time” to “Shift results in date before 1970”
• Patched calculation of GPSDateTime for the timed metadata in Track3 of Garmin videos so the API QuickTimeUTC option is no longer required
• Fixed conversion error when writing QuickTime:GoogleTrackDuration
• Fixed misidentification of non-TIFF-format files containing DNGVersion tag
• Fixed bug where Avoid-ed XMP structures could be created when writing another same-named structure
• Internal Changes:
  • Changed form of all new() calls to accommodate backward incompatibilities in recent versions of Perl
  • Changed order of InsertTagValues() arguments
  • DateFmt() now returns value of formatted date/time string