Is there a way to get device type from a video? (to reunite stills and live photos)

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For the last few years I’ve been saving all the photos and associated live photo videos for myself and family members to the file system. I can create smart folders by device to distinguish the photos e.g.

Device model > matches > iPhone 6S

but these don’t work for videos.

I ran mdls on one of the videos and I don’t see any metadata which would obviously identify the device.

Any suggestions?

(Incidentally, importing a still and the matching video flawlessly recreates the live photo in Photos on the Mac, so far…including stills saved as jpeg instead of HEIC).

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Interestingly…exiftool does reveal the Model for video files, so it must be in there somewhere – but it’s not visible from mdls and hence not visible to Spotlight or HoudahSpot or Smart Folders :open_mouth:

Apparently these are QuickTime tags, though they’re not visible in the Inspector in any version of QuickTime. See https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/QuickTime.html