Hi. I am trying to tag videos for later use in camtrapR. I have followed the instructions about setting up digiKam to tag video but do not see tags anywhere in the video metadata.
I am running digiKam v 8.8.0.
I have set the behaviour to use exiftool to read and write to the metadata.
Sidecars are unchecked.
Exiftool is enabled and running version 13.36.
I have tagged a sample set of AVI videos.
Here is where I am lost. When I hover over the video thumbnail in digiKam, I see the tags under digiKam properties. However, when I open the Metatdata tag on the right sidebar the tags do not appear anywhere. In the metadata box under exifpro I only see information under Composite, File and RIF but no tag names. Also, there is no HierarchicalSubject line in the metadata which I expected to see, and that camtrapR would read if these were images.
Any pointers to what I have done wrong/why the tag names do not appear to be written to the metadata and how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. I’ve looked in the manuals and trawled the forums etc, but to no avail.
Thanks Alan
Here is the metadata from CamtrapR for one of the tagged videos.
Metadata of:
C:/Data/VidTest//RCNX0002.AVI
tag_group tag_name value
1 ExifTool ExifToolVersion 13.43
2 File FileName RCNX0002.AVI
3 File Directory C:/Data/VidTest
4 File FileSize 10 MB
5 File FileModifyDate 2025:12:09 20:44:08+11:00
6 File FileAccessDate 2025:12:10 14:19:55+11:00
7 File FileCreateDate 2025:12:09 20:44:08+11:00
8 File FilePermissions -rw-rw-rw-
9 File FileType AVI
10 File FileTypeExtension avi
11 File MIMEType video/x-msvideo
12 File BMPVersion Windows V3
13 File ImageWidth 1024
14 File ImageHeight 720
15 File Planes 1
16 File BitDepth 24
17 File Compression MJPG
18 File ImageLength 2211840
19 File PixelsPerMeterX 0
20 File PixelsPerMeterY 0
21 File NumColors Use BitDepth
22 File NumImportantColors All
23 RIFF FrameRate 6.25
24 RIFF MaxDataRate 13.27 MB/s