Synchronised Clip should use Creation Date of the BRAW file about brawtoolbox HOT 4 CLOSED

Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's anyway to change the "Content Created" value in FCPXML. The key is com.apple.proapps.studio.metadataContentCreated, however setting that value doesn't actually change anything in Final Cut Pro.

According to this document only specific com.apple.proapps.studio.* keys are modifiable.

As a workaround, we can use the "Date Imported" metadata field instead - i.e. com.apple.proapps.mio.ingestDate.

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Looking at the metadataViews data in Final Cut Pro Preferences:

"Date Imported" = com.apple.proapps.ingestDate
"Last Modified" = metadataContentModDate
"Content Created" = metadataContentCreated

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Looking at FCPXML output with "Date Imported", "Last Modified" and "Content Created" as the only Metadata Fields in the Inspector we get:

<metadata>
    <md key="com.apple.proapps.mio.ingestDate" value="2022-09-02 10:22:46 +1000"/>
    <md key="com.apple.proapps.studio.metadataContentCreated" value="2022-12-26 10:02:20 +1100"/>
</metadata>

Given this, it looks like FCPX is always reading "Last Modified" from the actual source file itself - it's not stored in FCPXML.

I also tried just passing in metadataContentModDate and metadataContentCreated and also com.apple.proapps.studio.contentCreated and com.apple.proapps.studio.contentModDate - but as expected, it had no impact.

Looking into some other fields...

"Date Imported" = com.apple.proapps.ingestDate
"Last Modified" = metadataContentModDate
"Content Created" = metadataContentCreated
"Date Added" = metadataImportToApp
"Date modified" = com.apple.proapps.lastupdatedate
"MXF File Modification Date" = org.smpte.mxf.identification.filemodificationdate

There's also this that doesn't appear in the Inspector for some reason - maybe because it has the same display name as something else: {IPTC}.DigitalCreationDate

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"Date Imported" metadata will be added in next public beta.

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