Hello,

Just bought a firewire card, Avermedia DVD 1394 PCI to use with my old
Sony DCR-PC5. I can capture video easily but the only problem is the
date doesnt show up on the videos. I tried all kinds of settings on the
Camera but nothing seems to work. I can see the date stamp from the
Camera LCD screen and if I hookup to my tv using the RCA jacks.

thoughts?


TIA!

Hi everyone:

"jim" <news (AT) goody (DOT) net> wrote

Maybe the firewire card isn't capable of decoding the time/date stamp from
the cam.

Besides, why do you need that anyway?? Is it for security/legal purposes?
If not, why even go through the trouble? If it's not for security/legal
purposes, I think it would make the video just that much less desirable to
watch IMO.

Just my opinion :-)

Cheers for now :-)

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The date stamp is embedded in the stream you capture ... you need software
that knows how to find it. Triggering display on your playback device has
no effect on the Firewire transfer ... the display function is a 'local'
effect that doesn't change the Firewire datastream, it simply overlays the
data on your display based on the abilities of your DV playback device.

All that said, I don't know of any software that will display the data on
the image area of your signal while on your HD. Programs like Scenalzyer
Live do 'read' the data, and will display the data beneath the preview
window. It will also name files based on the date/time data, and uses the
date/time data as the source for the ordinary Windows property data, which
can be useful in filing and sorting.

You will find that the date/time data survives the transfer to your HD, and
back again, if you trigger display of the data on a finished program tape.

HTH

GB