timecode overlay

[wanderman]

Fellow Forum-ers,

 

A friend hands me a DVD of a mediation interview she conducted that needs reviewing by instructors. The instructors stipulate timecode be added so as to refer to specific segments with precision. I just installed EMC 9, imported the video into Videowave, and now would like to overlay a timecode. But there is no option for that. Has anyone figured another way of doing this using EMC 9?

[grandpabruce]

Fellow Forum-ers,

 

A friend hands me a DVD of a mediation interview she conducted that needs reviewing by instructors. The instructors stipulate timecode be added so as to refer to specific segments with precision. I just installed EMC 9, imported the video into Videowave, and now would like to overlay a timecode. But there is no option for that. Has anyone figured another way of doing this using EMC 9?

 

Not that I know of. Maybe someone else will drop in and offer a possible way.

[ggrussell]

Once the video has been burned to a video DVD, the actual footage timecode no longer is part of the video. As Bruce posted, there is no way in Videowave to add one manually even as an overlay.

 

I've seen a shareware app that will do that with DV AVI , but probably wouldn't work in your case.

[jeanrosenfeld]

Maybe I've not understood, in which case please ignore.

 

Not the original time code, but a workaround that may be good enough.

 

I opened a video in Videowave. At an appropriate place, I clicked Show hidden tracks, selected native tracvk, click show internal tracks, click add text effect, selected add to internal track, typed in the time showing on the preview, adjusted the duration to show for just a few seconds (expand timescale). The exact position corresponds to the position where the text first shows up (not frame accurate, of course, but to nearest 0.01 seconds).

Then burn back to Video.