rembering dates of capture?

seanfl wrote on 10/21/2005, 6:55 AM
Does Sony vegas give the option of showing the date the clip was recorded? I seem to remember outputing a video back to a DV tape with premier (5+ years ago) and when I would set the camera to display the date & other info...the date would change as different clips came up and referenced the original recording date. Right now Vegas seems to put the current date when outputing back to tape.

However five years ago has a way of distorting your memory!

thank you. Sean

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farss wrote on 10/21/2005, 7:18 AM
That metadata and much more is recorded by most cameras, will Vegas display it, NO. I agree, at times this information can be very usefull. Some Sony VCRs will display varying amounts of it on screen but then you need the VCR, you need the tape and it's hardly efficient when you've got all the data in the PC already.
But from memory SCLive will give you most of it, still not as convenient as being able to access it from the media pool, even better if the data went into the Media Mangler, ooops I meant manager.
Bob.
dmakogon wrote on 10/21/2005, 7:33 AM
Ok, I'm using Vegas 4 still, and don't have any experience with Media Manager. In my world, it's pretty much file directories and the occasional sfvidcap file. I have a sort-of-related question about metadata...

There are several clips I've pulled from DV over a long period of time that seem to have no metadata regarding date/time of recording (although media clip length is there). Is the sfvidcap file the ONLY place where this metadata exists? And... if some unfortunate thing happens such as me deleting the sfvidcap file, or it never gets saved because my PC crashes after capturing but prior to saving the sfvidcap, is that metadata essentially gone (unless I re-read the DV tape)?

Thanks,
David
John_Cline wrote on 10/21/2005, 7:42 AM
You might try this piece of freeware which, among other things, will read and display the date and time from a DV .AVI file.

DVdate

John
dmakogon wrote on 10/21/2005, 8:32 AM
John -

DVDate is AWESOME! I just dragged a clip onto it and, sure enough, there was the true recording date/time, something that does not appear anywhere in Windows or Vegas!

This is EXACTLY what I needed - Thank you!

David
seanfl wrote on 10/21/2005, 1:16 PM
does anyone know if I take a project, render it out, I believe vegas puts today's date on it, and doesn't save any of the original data...correct? I'm in the same spot as a previous poster...I have some clips I've used in Vegas, don't have the original dv tape or the original avi...only a render of that avi with something else attached.

thanks for the info...maybe Sony can give a feature that would either pass along the data, or at least allow you to display it in the program under clip properties.

Sean
farss wrote on 10/21/2005, 2:52 PM
Vegas quite logical would generate the metadata with the current info, doing anything else would lead to all sorts of absurdities. What you're really asking for is asset tracking but there just isn't the room to put that into an avi file.
Bob.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/21/2005, 4:28 PM
Actually, I think there is a way Vegas could handle this. I have suggested this many times.

1. Vegas should let you display the date/time via fX in the exact same way it lets you display timecode. This would be a dirt-simple fX to create. No excuse for NOT doing this.

2. Vegas should let you specify a track that will provide the date/time code when printing back to tape. This gets around the whole issue of "what date/time do I put on the tape?" question. This track would operate a little like the 3D track which, often, does not actually contain media but is instead used for control. In this case it would contain media, but the media might be there simply to provide the date/time info.

It certainly makes no sense whatsoever to not give the user the ability to pass through the date/time information, especially when doing a cuts-only project. Other, simpler, editors pass through this information.