I am making a slide show of family activities over the years since I have had a digital camera. Deaths are involved so the sequence is critically important. My initial digital camera always did not record the date of the photo, although sometimes it did (or perhaps I lost this info in editing actions). I am creating a family slide show using a couple hundred of the best photos over the years using a Smart Collection based on image ratings. These images without dates in the metadata do not sequence properly, and Smart Collections do not allow for custom sorting. Unfortunately, when the date is missing, Lightroom does not show the box in which the date is normally included within the metadata in the Develop Mode.
Now for the question - is it possible for me to enter the date into the meta data as an edit in LR under my circumstances? If this were possible, I would be able to correctly sequence the photos in my Smart Collection slide show.
Thanks for any input.