October | 2026 | Prutser ..

Last Updated or created 2026-10-08

I’ve got a bunch of media in my library with the following issues:

Images : too dark (rotation can be done within Immich)
Videos : too dark, interlaced or rotated

I used to fix these by removing from Immich, change original media, and upload again.
Then I had to fix the date of media with missing exif dates, using touch command.

Now I have a script which is doing the following:

Copy the URL containing the media
It downloads the media using API calls
It downloads the metadata for dates and tags
I calls a second python script in which you can do the following:
Change contrast/brightness, rotate CW or CCW, and select deinterlace when needed.
Write the new image or movie to a temp file
When exiting the editor the first called python script uploads the altered media and fixes tags and dates
After that some jobs are being started: Thumbnail recreation, Encoded videos, metadata and face recognition.

Takes only a few seconds to fix an asset