Date & Time Captured by DV out of Video Camera

[Mazen]

Any body can help me in How to captured date and time from DV out of of Video Camera.

[Tommyknocker]

Any chance you could tell us what camera you are talking about, and if the instructions say how to in the manual?

[Mazen]

Thanks for your intiative and trying to help me. My Video Camer is JVC GR-DVL510 and I am using Firewire Card for capturing the digital video out. There is not any instruction in the manual pointing to set Date/Time incase of DV out.
Keeping in mind the vidio out via the analouge AV IN/Out is find (with date and time). Thanks again.

[Craig Tucker]

Unfortunately that is normal. The timestamp is not included in the DV stream when you transfer the video via firewire and I don't know of any way of turning it on.

[Cornucopia]

Date/Time stamp IS encoded in auxilliary data areas of the DV stream. Most, but not all, apps will not strip this when copying to HD via Fireware. There is also available on the net an app that does a "window burn" of the date/time stamp. It was mentioned in some previous thread, a search should pick it up.
Actual, pre-burned-in Date/Time on the video is NOT available via Firewire on ANY DV/DVCPro/DVCam camera at all, that I know of.

Scott

[Nolonemo]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=171389&highlight=date

[dts8888]

Application dvtimestamp.exe
====================

When videos recorded on a DV camcorder tape are captured into DV AVI
files on a PC system, the time codes (date/time when the tape was made)
are transferred along with the video/audio data to the files. But the
time codes are not visible when you view the DV AVI files.

When you use DVD author tools to convert the DV AVI files to DVD
files, the time codes get lost.

By using dvtimestamp.exe, the time codes are extracted from the DV AVI
files and superimposed onto the videos. This way the date/time will be
visible when you view the DV AVI file, consequently the DVD you make
from the DV AVI files will have date/time displayed.

How to get it
=============
To get a trial version of DV Time Stamp, send a e-mail with
subject 'Trial version of DV Time Stamp' to
dts8888@yahoo.com

[themichael]

AVISynth has a plug-in that will work. And its free!

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=61688

[GeoPappas]

Application dvtimestamp.exe
====================

When videos recorded on a DV camcorder tape are captured into DV AVI
files on a PC system, the time codes (date/time when the tape was made)
are transferred along with the video/audio data to the files. But the
time codes are not visible when you view the DV AVI files.

When you use DVD author tools to convert the DV AVI files to DVD
files, the time codes get lost.

By using dvtimestamp.exe, the time codes are extracted from the DV AVI
files and superimposed onto the videos. This way the date/time will be
visible when you view the DV AVI file, consequently the DVD you make
from the DV AVI files will have date/time displayed.

How to get it
=============
To get a trial version of DV Time Stamp, send a e-mail with
subject 'Trial version of DV Time Stamp' to
dts8888@yahoo.com

dts8888:

I am very interested in extracting date/time stamp info from a DV1/DV2 (AVI) file.

But I don't really want to superimpose the date/time stamp on top of the video.

Is it possible to just extract the date/time code into another file so that it can be used as a subtitle in the final product?

[Tommyknocker]

If the date and time is only a reminder, why not make a note of from the original video, and enter it on the captured/edited video as a subtitle?

[GeoPappas]

If the date and time is only a reminder, why not make a note of from the original video, and enter it on the captured/edited video as a subtitle?

If only life were that simple...

I'm not sure how most people use their DV cameras, but I usually do clips that last a few minutes long. This means a 60-minute DV tape will contain clips from different time spans. Most of my DV tapes span at least a few months. Many will span six months or more.

Adding titles for one DV tape would be a LOT of work. If there is software out there that can do this, then it would save me (and lots of other people) a lot of work.

Plus, my wife and I are about to have our first child. This means that there will be LOTS more video to edit!

[vhelp]

I agree w/ GeoPappas.

I share in that same boat.. that some footage can span from week to week
or months(s) and you don't know till you begin working w/ the footage
later on. You could pick up 5 tapes (ramdomly) or not knowingly when such
footage was taken. To have to go through each and view is way too time
consuming and not to mention, steels the fun/excitement of one's initial
attemtps at their project(s)

There has to be a better way. But, still.., I can't believe that this would be
considered "over-looked" or "unimportant" to those powers that be
.
.
would be nice if DVIO had an option [x] setting to turn this on/off at wll.

-vhelp 2111

[dts8888]

GeoPappas, DV_DateCode might be the one you want (http://www.skydiver.de/stef/datecode_en.htm).
dts8888

[Tommyknocker]

Awesome link,DTS8888, I checked it out and noticed there is a AviSynth plugin for DVTimeStamp. So you can create a AviSynth video script for Virtual Dub that is a mirror image of your captured video, except it has a date stamp on it. You can use that as a reference, since you do not want the captured video to have the date stamp:



With DVTimeStamp



Without

Of course, everyone knows how easy it is to whizz through Virtual Dub with the little slider.

[vladimir]

I understand there are tools for VirtualDub and Avisynth, but how can I superimpose a running date/time information on the DV avi file using Ulead Media Studio? I have not yet found this.

[Tommyknocker]

If Media Studio can do overlay like Video Studio can, it is easy:

Use Xnote Stopwatch (Shareware), to make your digital clock.

Capture from your desktop it to a video file, using CamStudio.

Overlay your captured running clock on your original video.

[tomapperson]

I need to maintain the time / date stamp transfer from a HD video camera to a DVD recorder. Does anyone know what brands of HD video cameras do this?

[JohnnyMalaria]

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