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[Xyzzy]

I have many clips on each DV tape.
After capture, when working in VideoWave, I'd like to make use of shooting dates of clips.
In Normal mode, Media Import creates one file and marks clips that can be used separately in VW, but there's no way to display datecode for them. Smart mode of MI is useless, because it uses scene detection.

I thought that I could capture each clip to separate file and then rename files with DVDate, putting datecode into filename, but it seems there's no way to capture clips to separate files in EMC.

Any advice on how to get datecodes for separate clips after MI import?

X.

[ggrussell]

The only way to get separate clips is to use Smart Scan. I don't like it because there is too much stopping/rewinding. Can't be good on the camcorder mechanisms.  When I need separate files, I like to use WinDV which is shareware. It captures to files on-the-fly and uses the date/time code on the tape as a filename.

I don't know WHY the video industry has decided that 'we' don't want the date on our video any more.  The camcorders no long do it and I don't know of any video editors that do it either.  I guess they assume we would do it manually by adding our own text.

Edited by ggrussell, 03 February 2007 - 12:39 PM.

[Xyzzy]

Afaik EditStudio has a filter to add datecode to movie.

I would only be able to display this info in properties. I use clip date in description of clip, at its beginning, as a normal text displayed for a few seconds.

I'll try WinDV, thanks for info.

X.

Edited by Xyzzy, 03 February 2007 - 01:16 PM.

[ggrussell]

EditStudio by Pure Motion is also a more advanced video editor than Videowave.  Several other editors like Adobe's Premiere Elements also can use plug-in filters that will insert date/time, but they don't do it 'natively'.