I don't think so. There may be a freeware sort of reader, but the only way I know of is to capture using ScenalyzerLive, which gives the option of automatically using the date/time stamp as the avi file name. Works great, and sorts correctly.

I want to have it display at the bottom (right or left) of the scene for say 10 seconds then have it go off. I see where you can have a "timecode" show but it is basically the running time of the movie clip. I'd like to have the date and time of when I shot the video show. I'm trying to archive some video of my son from mini DV tapes. Thanks for your help.

Hi hkf,

Timestamps would be manual at this point (sounds like a good suggestion for a future version).


MPH

Thanks for the info. For now I guess I'll just have to manually put them in (uggh. not looking forward to that, I have two years of video to archive)or find another program to use.

On that note. Does anyone have a suggestion on a simple program to tranfer my mini DV footage to DVD?

Since Vegas already has the facility to show original camera time code on each frame on the Timeline, I wouldn't have thought it would be a huge leap to be able to include this in output also.

The fact that the date/timecode is on the video would seem to make this easy. However, it would likely entail more than it seems it would at first. Remember, when VV renders it CHANGES the date/timecode to the current date. I have commented on how this causes evidentiary problems in court, previously. I wish that it were something that could be controlled more easily.