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Google Photos Takeout - iCloud Photos - Image Metadata Transfer - JSON Metadata to JPG - EXIF(tool)
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Follow the steps to transfer the JSON metadata to JPG/MP4

  1. First move all the uncompressed files you have downloaded to a common folder

    $ rsync -av --ignore-existing source_folder/ destination_folder/

  2. Download the source code of exiftool or git clone it

    $ git clone https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool

  3. Google Takeout does produce another json file for images which were edited and made a copyof. If you wish to keep a copy but not update the date then the following command is optional

    $ rm -rf *-edited.jpg

  4. Update the exiftool & "Google Photos" path according to your needs

    ./<path_to_exiftool>/exiftool -d %s -tagsfromfile %d%f.%e.json \
"-Keywords<Tags" \
"-Subject<Tags" \
"-Caption-Abstract<Description" \
"-ImageDescription<Description" \
"-DateTimeOriginal<PhotoTakenTimeTimestamp" \
"-FileCreateDate<PhotoTakenTimeTimestamp" \
"-FileModifyDate<PhotoTakenTimeTimestamp" \
"-GPSAltitude<GeoDataAltitude" \
"-GPSLatitude<GeoDataLatitude" \
"-GPSLatitudeRef<GeoDataLatitude" \
"-GPSLongitude<GeoDataLongitude" \
"-GPSLongitudeRef<GeoDataLongitude" \
-overwrite_original -ext mp4 -ext jpg -r "Google Photos"

  5. For further assistance, you can reach out to the references I have used

References:

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