Date / Time - Video Created

poleary2000 wrote on 3/21/2008, 8:29 PM

Hi there. I am new to Vegas and new to Scripting. I can't wait to get started though. It looks so powerful.

What I would like to do with a script is to add the Date and Time (March 17, 2008) 5:00 PM that the media file was created to each clip in my movie. It would display for a few seconds and then fade out (if possible). Basically, I have about a years worth of video clips of my daughter and my wife would love to have those all combined into one video. When the scene changes, it would be great to have the date and time in the lower right so we knew approximately how old she was at the time. I could do this manually, but it would take forever. If I knew how to get the date and time the clip was created, I may even be able to subtract her birthday from it and then be able to auto put on her age. But, I would love to start with the date and time first. Thoughts? Is this possible?

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poleary2000 wrote on 3/21/2008, 8:38 PM

Okay, well I see now that I probably should have captured my tape using the Vegas capture tool. It has a Date / Time stamp field it creates for each video. What I would love to do is to show that on the video for each respective clip. I see the default script to add timecode, but that is the timecode on the tape. Thoughts?

jetdv wrote on 3/22/2008, 6:47 AM

A script can add a text generated media, can pick any particular preset, can fade it in and out, but cannot change the text. It also cannot read the date/time info from the clip. So it could give you a series of generated medias but you'd have to manually enter the proper date/time in each.

poleary2000 wrote on 3/22/2008, 8:02 AM

I can definitely add it manually, but was hoping to save some time. Thanks for the info.

Patrick

2G wrote on 6/26/2008, 10:17 PM

It won't help with creating text data overlays. But if you capture with ScenAlyzer, it will put the date/time as part of the clip file name which you can access via scripts if you need to know when the clip was created. ScenAlyzer is not free. But it's not that expensive and worth it.

ScenAlyzer will not capture HD, only SD. To get the same thing with HD, HDVSplit is the alternative for capturing HD and getting date/time in the clip file name.

You can google these two names to find them on the web.