Hi Gunther,

I've got a very weird one for you now... Using LRT 7.2.1 I am running into the following issue:

JPG-sequence, initialized by the right-click-menu batch-> initialization command.

When I do this, the entire column for the original date/time is set to a single moment. In my case 06-06-2024, 11:11:08.00. As expected the entire column for "interval" reads "0.0"

If I check the sequence in Finder, the Date Created column reads the moment I started the initialize command. I double checked this in the log file (I'll send it to you separately). The weird thing is, in Finder, the date created is set to today/time of initialize, but in LRT it shows as 06-06-2024, which is not the same.

Luckily, I still have the original sequence with the original "date-created-metadata" stored somewhere else.

To see if I could repeat the bug, I closed LRT, deleted the damaged folder, re-copied the original folder to the edit location, restarted LRT.

First, I just selected the folder which forces the initialize. Then all is fine.

After this, I repeated the delete/re-copy process and performed the initialization by means of batch initialize. Result: original date/time is messed up again.

I hope you can figure out what is going on here.

Thanks for reporting, will check this asap!

Jorrit, thanks for send over the sequence. Extracted it to my SSD, even put it into a folder structure like yours.
Didn't load it into LRT, just right clicked and die Batch initialization.
After that I loaded it and it showed the correct Date/Times, see the screenshot.
This is also on a Mac with ARM processor.
Any Idea what might be different on your side?
For troubleshooting please also right click on one image and choose "Image Properties", there under XMP-Metadata you could see, if the fields are properly filled (see screenshot).

Thanks for looking into it. I have no idea what could be different on my side. I'll keep an eye on it and when this happens again, I'll check the image properties/XMP-Metadata.

I am constantly working with large numbers of pretty large sequences (2000+ images) in parallel, using a lot of the batch features of LRT, switching from large sequence to large sequence, etc. In some cases I find that this causes LRT to stumble a bit and start to act weird. Usually a restart of LRT solves most of this, but for the discussed issue it kept coming back. I have not tried a complete system reboot. Perhaps that solves/solved it.

Again, thanks for looking into it. For the next project (soon), I'll see if I can reproduce the issue again reliably and will let you know what the XMP data window inside LRT says.

Regards, Jorrit

Normally, "Batch Initialize" is not necessary at all for fresh sequences, I would only do it to reset already edited sequences to a fresh start, if needed.