Help - how do you get the original recording date?

[THoff]

Yeah, it would be nice to have a filter that reads the DV timecode and overlays it on top of the rendered video, complete with a customization feature that lets you choose a font, color, and timecode format. I'll have to look at the Ulead SDK and see how complicated it would be to do something like that.

But I think for most people, being able to see the timecode during editing is all they need.

[Ken Berry]

...and there are some of us out here who abhor the idea of EVER having a date over the final image, whether video or still! But I acknowledge that it probably wouldn't hurt to give people who want it, the choice...

[THoff]

I'm with you, I wouldn't use that feature myself. I hate having the shooting date and time superimposed over whatever you are filming -- it is distracting and looks unprofessional. Still, some people apparently want that.

I like what Kodak did with the APS still photo system: it included the date and time the picture was taken separately, and it was then printed on the back when you got your film back from the developer. It got you the best of both worlds, you could easily tell when a picture was taken, yet it didn't appear in the photograph itself.

[MikeGunter]

Hi,

Scenalyzer, http://www.scenalyzer.com/ can capture and put the date in the filename.

Mike

[Ferki]

I have to watch the original video on the camcorder and manually write down the date as it is displayed on the camcorder's screen. Does anyone have a way to do this?

Try folowing http://paul.glagla.free.fr/dvdate_en.htm (... freeware for personal use ...)
It can rename captured *.avi files to recording date/time.

HTH,
Igor