Date/Time Frame Overlay

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BobKY

Newbie Location: Louisville KY Joined: Mar 29, 2013 18:10 Messages: 1 Offline

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Aug 03, 2013 22:35

I need the date and time overlaid onto the video frames from my Panasonic AVCHD camcorder files. Please forgive if this has been covered in this forum but the search engine won't turn up existing threads using key words like "date time stamp" and so forth.

The Panasonic cameras (and Sony also I think) will not superimpose a date time stamp in each *.mts file video frame.

Anyone know if that metadata is contained in the *.mts file? Or is it contained in one of the other accompanying files on the camera's memory card.

Anyone know a hack for CLPD that will import that date time stamp into the *.mts video frames?

Thank you.

RobAC

Contributor Joined: Mar 09, 2013 18:20 Messages: 406 Offline

Aug 04, 2013 07:38

Bob,

It would be great to have an auto feature like this.
Here is a thread for PD10 that discusses this- might provide some added knowledge:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/22697.page

If I need to do this type of overlay I would do it manually:
1.)Drag the mts into PD Media Room > right click view properties, copy or type out the relevant info and save to an open notepad .txt file.

2.)Then in PD create / modify a text or title box from the Title Room (F7) and place in the timeline below my mts video clip. Copy the info from your notepad file into it. Now drag title box to the lenght of your mts file to overlay the entire clip.

A bit of a pain if you have a lot of clips- but not too bad with only a few.

(You also use the "Show Chapter Track" by right clicking anywhere on the timeline- but I find this very limited so I just use my own custom Title text boxes for everything that need subtitling.)

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