

The newly created video file with no metadata will be called video.mp4.ĮxifTool supports a wide variety of video formats, such as mp4, mkv, 3gp, avi, divx, flv and many more. Note the -original name at the end of the filename. Your original video file (with metadata) will be renamed as “video.mp4-original”. To delete metadata using ExifTool, navigate the Terminal app to the video file directory and use the command below exiftool -all= video.mp4Įxiftool will renamed your original video file. You can use ExifTool by Phil Harvey to view metadata, as well as removing EXIF data and other metadata information. User can decide if they want to fully clear all the metadata that is embedded into the file. The app open up the target image or video file and display all the EXIF and metadata information available. Photo & Video Metadata Remover is a lightweight macOS application that removes EXIF data and other sensitive metadata from both image and video files. These are the two (2) metadata removal tools that you can use on Mac. So I run my ffmpeg command above to clean the metadata then I can use another tool to pull in the correct (curated) metadata from say thetvdb.How to Remove Video EXIF Metadata using macOS?

After I've renamed the file into my prefered format Name - Season - EpisodeNN - title format, I'd like the metadata to be cleaned to be the same as the renamed title and not "Name - Season - EpisodeNN - title - Pa55ed thru XXXHub. Sometimes the tool can only obtain an episode by searching the darker bits of the internet and then often the file has passed through multiple sites and the meta-data in the file has become mangled or links to porn sites added. I get my content from a variety of places, mostly usenet using SIckchill / Sabnzb that usually do a good job of sanitising filenames. I mostly play media via Kodi/Elec or VLC or whatever media player is available. Click Get my File Clean, and it will create a copy without metadata.

On the tools website, click the upload button and choose the file to remove the metadata. Open your web browser, and search the tool.

If you are using VLC, then you might find a setting for that too. If you want to experience removing metadata for free, follow the steps below. >:?: Why are removing embedded media titles? What software are you using? If you are using Plex, then you can just Disable Local Media Assets to make Plex not display the embedded title.
