When I render a DV AVI file, the Date/Time is set to the Date and time of the render. Why? How can I preseve the original date and time the video was taken?
But your video may contain clips with many different dates and times and composites of those as well. What value would you assign as the date and time to a frame during a fade between two clips taken at different dates and times?
OK, I can understand that it can be an issue when you do some editing, but all I did was cut a few scenes, and then rendered the rest, and there was no actual "rendering", just exporting, and yet the Date/Time code was changed.
Anyway, assuming Vegas allways changes the Date/Time code, it is then lost forever, and unless one makes a record of it, prior to rendering, there can be no way to retrieve it again. This is quite a problem for me, as I often need to display a label that states the date and time the video was taken.
As farss said, there isn't any automatic way to know what date to include when the video is a composite of many different tracks. However, as an advanced feature someday, it would be nice to either specify a date and starting time for the entire project, and have that rendered into the final DV AVI file, or else specify a track from which the date/time code would be extracted and used in the final render.