I have a sony HDR-HC3. I am using videostudio 10. I want to extract the date and time of each video clip, so that add titles that include the date of the video clip. I know the info is on the tape, but I don't seem to be able access in from Ulead Videostudio. How does one do this?
Thanks in Advance,
Marshal.
Finding Date and Time of Video Clip
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BrianCee
Providing you captured as DV-AVI by firewire.
Go to "File >> Preferences" and at the very bottom of the dialogue box under the 'General' tab put a tick in the box against "Display DV timecode on preview window" - click OK - OK the warning sign and play your video - date and time of recording should be displayed - but not recorded onto your video - you need to do that manually with titles.
ALTERNATIVEY - allow your mouse cursor to hover over the thumbnail in the library - after a few seconds a box will appear with lines of information - the bottom line is recording date. Note this is only accurate if each thumbnail is only one timecode recording - if there are multiple timecodes in one thumbnail clip UVS will display only the first.
ALTERNATIVELY - the date and time of recording is displayed under the preview screen during the transfer of the video from your camcorder to PC - note it there .
Go to "File >> Preferences" and at the very bottom of the dialogue box under the 'General' tab put a tick in the box against "Display DV timecode on preview window" - click OK - OK the warning sign and play your video - date and time of recording should be displayed - but not recorded onto your video - you need to do that manually with titles.
ALTERNATIVEY - allow your mouse cursor to hover over the thumbnail in the library - after a few seconds a box will appear with lines of information - the bottom line is recording date. Note this is only accurate if each thumbnail is only one timecode recording - if there are multiple timecodes in one thumbnail clip UVS will display only the first.
ALTERNATIVELY - the date and time of recording is displayed under the preview screen during the transfer of the video from your camcorder to PC - note it there .
When you work with DV type one avi clips, you can use file>preferences and check the "Display DV timecode on Preview Window" button. You can then see the timecode information when playing the clip in the VS editor preview window.
This feature does not work with mpeg2 clips - the timecode info is lost.
I believe your Sony uses mpeg2 compression to store footage on the MiniDV tape.
Most, if not all camcorders also have various options for displaying the time or date, perhaps the age of a child and so on. This information is recorded on a separate track on the tape, however, inaccessible to VS and not included when footage is captured.
To be honest, I feel that the manufacturers are being a bit deceptive with these HD camcorders. Although you get the benefit of the higher resolution, they use mpeg2 compression to be able to store footage on a regular MiniDV tape. Whilst the DV format used in regular (non-HD) MiniDV camcorders is perfectly suited to extensive video editing, the mpeg2 format is not. Any editing of mpeg2 will result in artefacts at transitions - it's simply a function of the mpeg2 frame structure. This might not be too noticeable if you are just doing simple edits, and many people are unaware of the effects. There are also problems of out of sync audio.
So I fear the short answer may be no....
This feature does not work with mpeg2 clips - the timecode info is lost.
I believe your Sony uses mpeg2 compression to store footage on the MiniDV tape.
Most, if not all camcorders also have various options for displaying the time or date, perhaps the age of a child and so on. This information is recorded on a separate track on the tape, however, inaccessible to VS and not included when footage is captured.
To be honest, I feel that the manufacturers are being a bit deceptive with these HD camcorders. Although you get the benefit of the higher resolution, they use mpeg2 compression to be able to store footage on a regular MiniDV tape. Whilst the DV format used in regular (non-HD) MiniDV camcorders is perfectly suited to extensive video editing, the mpeg2 format is not. Any editing of mpeg2 will result in artefacts at transitions - it's simply a function of the mpeg2 frame structure. This might not be too noticeable if you are just doing simple edits, and many people are unaware of the effects. There are also problems of out of sync audio.
So I fear the short answer may be no....
JVC GR-DV3000u Panasonic FZ8 VS 7SE Basic - X2
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limec
With the provisos that my experience is limited to the use of a MiniDV camcorder and VS up to the 10 TBYB, I believe that you are in fact wrong on this. You can only get the timecode preview with avi clips. Once you export these to mpeg2, or even if you've used the capture directly to mpeg2 feature, the timecode info is lost. I'd love to be proven wrong - maybe it works in the full VS10, but I don't think so.limec wrote:If i am not wrong, the preview does show the date and time in mpeg2 format but the data show when the video is tansferred from the tape to the harddisk and not the date and time the video is actually recorded onto the tape.
Before I posted, I checked out the spec of the Sony online, but could find nothing relating to timecode.
Perhaps Marshal could give us details of his workflow, which might illuminate the matter further. If, as Brian suggested, the footage can be catured as avi, there might be functional timecode. The avi data stream would be 25Mb/sec, though, so you'd need a pretty decent capture drive.
JVC GR-DV3000u Panasonic FZ8 VS 7SE Basic - X2
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BrianCee