data/time dissappears after edit

nealenapier · Post by **nealenapier** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:52 am

I am using the display dv timecode preference. If I import DV, split up into clips and then say turn up the brightness on a clip using the the colour correction sliders, the timecode is no longer displayed in the preview window. If I reset the brightness the timecode reappears in preview.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Neale

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:09 am

What is your ultimate intention? Do you want the date and time to appear on your final DVD?

If so, then VS is not capable of this with digital video. The DV timecode preference is only for editing purposes -- to give you an idea of exactly when you shot particular footage so that you can arrange it chronologically if you wish. But it does not form part of the video itself, and is not rendered in the final mpeg-2 or DVD. In this regard it is quite different from analogue video.

There is a freeware program which can do that job, though I forget the name (I have a particular dislike of time stamps on videos, and still photos for that matter, so the name has never stuck!

) But I am sure someone will jump in and supply it...

nealenapier · Post by **nealenapier** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:31 am

I just want to be able to go conveniently go back to my edited video clips and pull off the date/time of various clips. The main reason is nothing more fancy than jotting down the dates and then putting them as text on the menu thumbnails when I split by scene at burn time. I know I have numerous other ways to get the timecode again, it's just that this would have been the fastest one.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:05 pm

Does hovering the mouse over the clip not produce a box containing the date and time?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:10 pm

Perhaps your monitor needs adjusting.
Could you perhaps do 2 screen shots one with the brightness etc turned down so it is displayed on your monitor, the other with it turned up so that it is not displayed on your monitor.

If it is your monitor that needs adjusting then the screen shots should both display the time code for the rest of us and we can advise you accordingly.

nealenapier · Post by **nealenapier** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:17 pm

The clip in the library is one large AVI. I have split it up into various clips on the timeline. I don't see anything if I hover.

Unfortunately I can't provide a screenshot as I have nowhere to upload the screenshot to.

I am on the edit tab with storyboard view and have clicked on colour correction to view the 5 video adjustment sliders. If I press reset here I can see the date/time when I play the clip in the preview window. If I adjust the brightness slider bar just to 1 instead of 0, the date/time is no longer displayed in preview window.

It is just a minor niggle really, it's just strange. Anyway my workaround is to temporarily reset all the video adjustments to get the date/time back when I save the clips, then don't save the project.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:29 pm

Same here. Looks like a little bug. Resetting the color adjustment brings back the time/date. Weird.

You could report it to tech support, but with v11 coming out any day now I'm not sure that anything would be done about it.