Quote: All of my AVCHD files have a YYYY-MM-DDxxxxx.mt2s file naming format. I'd love to be able to extract the YYYY-MM-DD and superimpose it on the screen to date-stamp specified clips. Is there a way to do this directly in Powerdirector?? I have a third-party tool that does it but it takes a while and requires me to create another file..

I did a search here and did not find this feature for videos but for photos, Time Info button applies the information of the photo (s) in a fixed position.
It is done automatically.
For video I think should do manually for each video AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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If you create a text file that contains the dates of the video files, one date per line, then you can import that list as a subtitle text file.

Before importing the text file, you need to add subtitle markers along the timeline, presumably a marker at the beginning of each video clip. The number of markers should equal the number of dates in the text file. When you click the "Add" button to add a subtitle marker, there will be a line of text, "Double-click to edit," in the Subtitle column. You don't have to double-click on anything because that wording will be replaced when you import the text file.

You'll see some icons at the bottom of the subtitle room for editing subtitles. Click on the folder icon to import your text file and you will see the Subtitle column filled with the dates from the text file. The dates will display on the preview screen when you play back the timeline.

You can read more about subtitles in Help. Gateway DX4380, AMD A8-5500 Quad Core 3.2GHz with ATI Radeon HD 7560D; 16GB RAM; 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM; Windows 8 Pro 64-bit; PDR11, PDVD12.

Thanks.. It's too bad they can't do something as simple and elegant for this like in iMovie.

Check this out...

http://www.macworld.com/article/1166605/how_to_time_stamp_your_video_in_imovie.html

It would be awesome of Powerdirector had this functionality!