How to turn off date display?

ed-snape wrote on 8/27/2014, 3:44 PM
Our church has just installed a Panasonic HC-V750 camera and Blackmagic HyperDeck SSD recorder. HDMI output of the camera is fed to HDMI input of the recorder. Yesterday we recorded a service on both the camera's chip and the HyperDeck"s SSD. I have imported both files into Vegas with no issues. The Panasonic file is AVCHD, while the HyperDeck's file is Apple ProRes 422. The AVCHD files do not display the date which is good in our case. The ProRes file undesirably causes the date to display in the lower right hand corner. How can I turn off the date? Must that be a camera adjustment, on can I turn it off retroactively in Vegas or with other software? Is the source metadata or on the video?
Thank you.

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richard-amirault wrote on 8/27/2014, 4:01 PM
The only way to "turn it off" in Vegas is to overlay something on top of it (a bug) If you do this the bug would have to stay in place even when the 'normal' footage is being shown or it will really look strange (to pop in / out all the time)
videoITguy wrote on 8/27/2014, 4:05 PM
The Op's questions are really relevant. If it is metadata - then camera AVCHD footage would not by default show anything in VegasPro - because it cannot pull metadata.
On the other hand, it is very uncommon to have ProRes display anything of any sort.
Where does the ProRes version come from? Someone burned in a timecode for you-- what does the format look like - time of day? frame run? what? _ It is likely that Hyperdeck was set to burn time in - hence you have to deal with a mask. Should have been run to record without burn.
ed-snape wrote on 8/27/2014, 4:16 PM
It seems to be just a date. "AUG 26 2014" not time code.
ed-snape wrote on 8/27/2014, 4:34 PM
ProRes is one of about 5 format options in HyperDeck. I believe time code is turned off. AVCHD is not offered.
Rob Franks wrote on 8/27/2014, 8:45 PM
Avchd does indeed have a date on it. It however comes in the form of a subtitle file muxed into the original MTS container. Fortunately (in your case) vegas does not readily import subtitle files so you don't have to worry about it.

The pro res files... I'll go with the above suggestion.. it's burned in and you will have to mask it of you don't want it there.
Former user wrote on 8/27/2014, 8:55 PM
From what I can tell online, there is a CLEAN HDMI setting in that camera. Meaning it puts out an HDMI video with no overlays. You have to set this in the menu.

Since it is recorded in it already, not much choice but to try and mask it.

videoITguy wrote on 8/27/2014, 9:43 PM
AFAIK the option burn window comes from the recorder - not the HDMI feed and definitely not the camera. The recorder has the setting to turn on or off.
Former user wrote on 8/28/2014, 6:46 AM
This is what I was basing my information on

ed-snape wrote on 8/28/2014, 10:56 PM

From what I can tell online, there is a CLEAN HDMI setting in that camera. Meaning it puts out an HDMI video with no overlays. You have to set this in the menu.

Thanks Dave. It appears that I need to dig into the camera menus to reset this. We are 60I or 60P, not 50P, but I CLEAN HDMI should be possible nevertheless.


Thanks for the utube link. I could not quite follow all that was being demonstrated, but will have another go at it in the morning.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/29/2014, 5:56 AM
VirtualDub has a set of 3rd party filters, some of which are Logoaway and DeLogo that can be used to remove logos and things like burned in timecode. Here is a link to the Subtitles and logo control filters which should have something that can help. It's not perfect but it's with looking into.

~jr