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    Hello,

    One of my friend has some old miniDV tapes recorded with a JVC camera. His camera si broken (in fact is even worse, from time to time works). Anyway I tried to copy the tapes with my camera a Sony one. Everything looks ok (video & sound) except the record date/time which is not available on the PC file.


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  3. So what is the issue here? Is it that -

    a) You can't view the recorded date and time when playing back the transferred video

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    b) That the videos have no recorded date and time info attached to them

    If the problem is A (not actually a problem) then you can use Enosoft Enhanced DV Decoder to display file information when playing back the video. Once installed you just enable/disable this option as you like.

    If the problem is B - then DVdate is the best solution here. I ran into the same problem in the past, one of my DV camcorders simply didn't pass through a datestamp that any software could recognise, and nothing I tried would extract it - other than DVdate which to my surprise extracted it all. You can use it to split a video according to datestamp and have the files labeled at the recorded date and time.
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  4. Did you do a direct copy with FireWire, which should retain the data, or did you use some other method?
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    Hello,

    thanks for your answers. So:


    1) I used firewire connection and movie maker from W7.
    2) On movie maker I chose the option to save in directory/filename based on date/time taken. During the copy process the file is copied in the current date/time, but at the end the application change the name. In this case the folder and file is with the current date/time
    3) I've tried DVDate and DV Sub Maker but the output file has 0 size


    I've teste with 3 tapes until now 2 in SP and 1 in LP. For the one in LP I have the date/time. Maybe it is a setting in the JVC camera to record with timestamp or maybe when my friend recorded the tape he forgot to set date/time.

    UPDATE: I just copied another SP tape but this time with date/time.
    Last edited by iradu; 12th Jan 2014 at 06:08.
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