How to create a fresh date / time stamp for a DV AVI file?

[guy24s]

Hi,

After transferring some footage from DV tapes, I noticed that some recordings don't have any date / time stamps. What I mean is, the place where date and time normally would be displayed is completely blank.
I already know how to adjust an incorrect date / time stamp in a DV AVI file that has the wrong date or time, but is there a way to create a fresh date and time stamp for a DV AVI file that completely lacks a date and time stamp, if I happen to know what date and time the footage was recorded and I want to insert that somehow?
I have Googled but I don't find anything useful. Any ideas?

[JVRaines]

Have you searched the software library here on VideoHelp?

[guy24s]

Have you searched the software library here on VideoHelp?

Yes, that is usually where I check first... But I got 0 results when I searched for "time stamp DV AVI". I'm not sure if I should be using different search words and if so what that would be.

[_Al_]

dvdate might do it,
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/dvdate_en.htm
it was used for dvavi and this sort of things

[aedipuss]

dvdate couldn't create datecode for avis that didn't already have one. enosoft dv processor might be able to but i was never able to get it to work on my win7 systems.

[JVRaines]

Have you searched the software library here on VideoHelp?

Yes, that is usually where I check first... But I got 0 results when I searched for "time stamp DV AVI". I'm not sure if I should be using different search words and if so what that would be.

Try "metadata" as a broader term.

[guy24s]

dvdate might do it,
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/dvdate_en.htm
it was used for dvavi and this sort of things

dvdate couldn't create datecode for avis that didn't already have one. enosoft dv processor might be able to but i was never able to get it to work on my win7 systems.

Yes, I had already tried DVdate and while I was able to adjust date / time codes already present, I wasn't able to create new ones for files that lacked them. The field where the codes normally appear were blank, and unclickable.

Have you searched the software library here on VideoHelp?

Yes, that is usually where I check first... But I got 0 results when I searched for "time stamp DV AVI". I'm not sure if I should be using different search words and if so what that would be.

Try "metadata" as a broader term.

Thank you for the suggestion. I found something called DVMP Pro. I'm not sure if that is what I need, but will try it.

[Budman1]

Its a little sloppy but you can add the encoded date back as a comment and use this to rename your video:

ffmpeg -y -i "C:\Users\Bud\Desktop\_Video.avi" -c:a copy -c:v copy -metadata comment="Encoded Date 2016-04-09 23:22:08" "C:\Users\Bud\Desktop\__Video.avi"

Yields this with MediaInfo:

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Bud\Desktop\__Video.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 1.25 GiB
Duration : 1 h 35 min
Overall bit rate : 1 887 kb/s
Writing application : Lavf57.21.101
Comment : Encoded Date 2016-04-09 23:22:08