Samsung Galaxy Motion Photo extraction tool

extractMotionPhotos.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright 2017 Kevin Mark
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# Extracts the MP4 video component of Motion Photos introduced on the
# Samsung Galaxy S7. Uses exiftool to get the job done. Ignores files
# that do not contain motion photo data. Unfortunately, exiftool does
# not yet support removing this embedded data from images.
# See http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/Samsung.html
#
# Example usage: extractMultiPhotos.sh /my/photos/*.jpg

hash exiftool 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "exiftool is not available"
    exit 1
fi

for file in "${@}"; do
    video_type=$(exiftool -p '$EmbeddedVideoType' -EmbeddedVideoType "${file}" 2>/dev/null)
    if [ "${video_type}" != "MotionPhoto_Data" ]; then
        continue
    fi

    echo "Extracting motion photo from ${file}..."
    exiftool -b -EmbeddedVideoFile "${file}" > "${file%.*}_MotionPhoto.mp4"
done

Hi Wesley, you could definitely set the file’s filesystem timestamps with the touch command. I don’t know of a way off the top of my head to directly copy over all the EXIF data but if I had to guess exiftool would be capable.