A script that will take videos named in the YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss* format and use that to update the file created date time and EXIF created date times. Meant to run on macOS (due to `touch` and `stat` differences from linux).

CreatedAndRecordDateCleanup.sh

#!/bin/zsh

DEBUG=${DEBUG:-false}
fullpath=$1

log_header() {
  RED=$(tput setaf 1)
  WHITE=$(tput setaf 7)
  RESET=$(tput sgr0)

  WRAPPED_TEXT=$(echo "$1" | fmt -w 100)

  echo ""
  echo -e "${RED}"$(printf '%0.s*' {1..100})"${RESET}"
  echo -e "${WHITE}${WRAPPED_TEXT}${RESET}"
  echo -e "${RED}"$(printf '%0.s*' {1..100})"${RESET}"
  echo ""
}

log_message() {
  YELLOW=$(tput setaf 3)
  BLUE=$(tput setaf 4)
  RESET=$(tput sgr0)

  WRAPPED_TEXT=$(echo "$1" | fmt -w 100)

  echo ""
  echo -e "${YELLOW}"$(printf '%0.s*' {1..100})"${RESET}"
  echo -e "${BLUE}${WRAPPED_TEXT}${RESET}"
  echo -e "${YELLOW}"$(printf '%0.s*' {1..100})"${RESET}"
  echo ""
}

# Set initial values and log the date that
# will be written
##################################################

filename=$(basename $fullpath)
fileext="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"
dirname=$(dirname -- "$fullpath")
archive_dir="$dirname/_archive"
date=$(echo $filename | awk -F- '{print $1 $2 $3$4$5"."$6}')
date=$(echo $date | xargs)
formated_date=$(date -j -f "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S" "$date" "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

log_header "Starting to process $fullpath"

echo "The new date which will be written based on the filename is: $formated_date (sourced from $date)"

# Log the initial values in the file
##################################################

log_message "Initial values for $fullpath"

echo "The revised file created date is:"
birthtime=$(stat -f%B $fullpath)
echo $(date -r $birthtime)

echo "The current video record dates are:"
exiftool -FileModifyDate -FileCreateDate -QuickTime:CreateDate $fullpath

# Change the dates using touch and exiftool
##################################################

log_message "Revising date to $date for $fullpath"

if [ "$DEBUG" = true ]; then
    if [ "$fileext" = "mpg" ]
    then
        echo "Command that would be executed:\nffmpeg -i $fullpath ${fullpath%.*}.mp4 -y"
    fi

    echo "Command that would be executed:\ntouch -mt $date $fullpath"
    echo ""

    echo "Command that would be executed:\nexiftool -FileModifyDate=\"$date\" -FileCreateDate=\"$date\" -QuickTime:CreateDate=\"$date\" $fullpath -overwrite_original"
    echo ""
else
    if [ "$fileext" = "mpg" ]
    then
        echo "Converting $fullpath to mp4"
        ffmpeg -i $fullpath ${fullpath%.*}.mp4 -y

        echo "Moving $fullpath to $archive_dir"
        mv "$fullpath" "$archive_dir/$filename.$fileext"

        fullpath=${fullpath%.*}.mp4
    fi

    touch -mt $date "$fullpath"

    exiftool -FileModifyDate="$formated_date" -FileCreateDate="$formated_date" -QuickTime:CreateDate="$formated_date" "$fullpath" -overwrite_original
fi

# Log the revised values in the file
##################################################

log_message "Revised values for $fullpath"

echo "The revised file created date is:"
birthtime=$(stat -f%B $fullpath)
echo $(date -r $birthtime)

echo "The revised video record dates are:"
exiftool -FileModifyDate -FileCreateDate -QuickTime:CreateDate $fullpath

# Exit
##################################################

echo "Done processing $fullpath"

CreatedAndRecordDateFolderCleanup.sh

#!/bin/zsh
setopt +o nomatch

dir=$1
DEBUG=${DEBUG:-false}

archive_dir="$dir/_archive"
imported_dir="$dir/_imported"

echo "Creating archive ($archive_dir) and imported ($imported_dir) directories"
mkdir -p "$archive_dir"
mkdir -p "$imported_dir"

for file in $dir/*.{mp4,m4v,mpg,mov}
do
    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
        echo "Processing $file"
        ./CreatedAndRecordDateCleanup.sh $file $DEBUG
    fi
done