Your idea of inserting the time and date stamp as a subtitle track is going to fly!
I pissed around with a workflow all day and I have found that if I capture with HDVsplit, this will allow me to title each clip with its time/date, then import the clips to vegas. I then use "quick labels" in Excalibur which will create an overlay track with the title of each clip (the time/date is the title). Quick labels also automatically creates regions for each title in each clip which allows me to use the "regions to subtitle" script. After I create a .SUB file for DVDa i will then simply delete the track that quick labels created, then render the whole mess out to M2V/AC3. This is imported to DVDa along with the .SUB file and then burned. (The whole process is relatively fast and painless given the 500 plus clips that I have on the time line).
The time/date stamp (on each clip) is now on/off switchable with the subtitle button!
I pissed around with a workflow all day and I have found that if I capture with HDVsplit, this will allow me to title each clip with its time/date, then import the clips to vegas. I then use "quick labels" in Excalibur which will create an overlay track with the title of each clip (the time/date is the title). Quick labels also automatically creates regions for each title in each clip which allows me to use the "regions to subtitle" script. After I create a .SUB file for DVDa i will then simply delete the track that quick labels created, then render the whole mess out to M2V/AC3. This is imported to DVDa along with the .SUB file and then burned. (The whole process is relatively fast and painless given the 500 plus clips that I have on the time line).
The time/date stamp (on each clip) is now on/off switchable with the subtitle button!