How to dub date and time from handycam to laptop

[cissywik]

I have a Sony video camera and wish to copy footage to my Sony Vaio laptop. I have tried transfering footage with the software the laptop came with, however it doesn't include the date and time of the footage taken - this is a must. I then wish to burn footage to DVD. Any info re this topic would be greatly appreciate. Thanks

[guns1inger]

If this is a Mini-DV camera then the date and time information are stored in the file, and can be extracted as subtitles which can be added during the authoring stage, or hard-burned during the encoding stage.

If it is a HDD based camera then the process seems to be on that is not addressed (there was another post on this recently that is, I believe, still unresolved).

The only other option is an analogue transfer, which requires specialist hardware and will be of lower quality.

[cissywik]

Hi thanks for your quick response,
The camera is a Mini DV - how do I extract them as subtitles (as you may have guessed, I lag in the correct know-how of computing. If you can help thats cool, if you cannot go into it,thats also cool and thanks thus far.

[guns1inger]

I haven't used them, so you will have to do some research (start with the comments and scores), the following is a short list of candidates

DV Sub Maker
DV_Datecode
DVDate
Visual DV Time Stamp

Work out which approach you want to take (subtitle versus hard coded) and pick a tool to play with

[cissywik]

Thanks so much.