Need to see time stamp on video when editing

[Jeff Brown]

[Chad Duncan] “During capture it appeared on screen so I’m sure this data was copied over”

Ah, but appeared on which screen? The video monitor or the Premiere capture window? If it was embedded in the video, you should of course be seeing it in the video. Frequently, this data is an overlay that is generated by the camera and ovelayed on the monitor out, but not embedded in the video.

A possible workaround is to use the Time Code effect to overlay timecode on your captured video. You will likely need to manually adjust the offset (start) time on a per-clip basis.

-Jeff

[Hector Melendez]

Don’t know what you did apart but I left the firewire cable connected to the player cam when playing the timeline, I can see thru the cam LCD everything you are trying to figure. (date, time, etc)

[Jon Barrie]

The date and time data is not something that is brought into viewable metadata.
We might be able to help you achieve your end goal. But we will need more details of what you have and want to do with your material. I think you’ll have to fake some of what you want to represent.
– Jon Barrie

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jon Barrie]

The date and time data is not something that is brought into viewable metadata.
We might be able to help you achieve your end goal. But we will need more details of what you have and want to do with your material. I think you’ll have to fake some of what you want to represent.
– Jon Barrie

Jon Barrie
aJBprods
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Chad Duncan]

Thanks for all the feedback! More details were requested about my project so here goes; i have video footage of small planes flying against various backgrounds (mountains, sky, ect.,). In our experiment we had several observers watching the planes as they flew different patterns, and we asked them to state outloud (so it could be captured on tape) when the planes became invisible or visible (due to a camoflauge effect against the backgrounds). I need to go through the video data & pull out each frame in which the threshold of dectecion ws reached. In other words, I need pics of the plane every time someone lost sight of it or regained sight of it. These images willl then be analyzed to obtain psychometric functions of detection thresholds for the FAA. My problem is that I need to figure out the distance between the plane & the observer in every frame of interest, but I need to use the latitude & longitude from the plane’s gps data to do this. Somehow then, I need to sync the time-of-day stamp from the fligt data with that of the camera’s internal clock as I pull out my images. In short, I would like to see the time of day stamp from the camera’s internal clock on the video editing screen… Please let me know if any clarification is needed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

CD

[Mark Hollis]

OK, since there is something called Time Of Day timecode, Adobe Premiere can give you the time. The date is something you are going to need to manually place on the video. Cameras can record everything from F-Stop to geotagging metadata in a video stream but that is not something that an application such as Premiere Pro can recover and re-insert.

To do time of day timecode, make sure you have no camera pauses for each clip (Scene Detection while capturing can be your friend here). Open up each clip in a Windows Media viewer and determine the metadata for the time of day at the very beginning of the clip. TOD should conform to a 24-hour clock.

Next open the clip up in Premiere Pro. From the File Menu choose Timecode…

This should give you a dialog where you can enter your time-of-day visible in your Windows Media Player for the first frame of the video. Click OK. The clip will now have Time-Of-Day timecode and this may be displayed.

Next, you need to do a timecode display and I don’t know how to do that — but others will.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

[Colin Browell]

Try DVMP Pro. You can play DV AVI, HDV m2t or AVCHD m2ts/mts files and see the original recording date and time and the timecode changing as you play or frame-step the video. Some cameras do not record timecode, but most always record the date and time. You can also permanently burn/stamp the date and time or timecode into the video frames if that’s what you would prefer. There’s also a batch processor so that you can do this for a whole bunch of files in one go. There’s a demo version to try out.

https://www.dvmp.co.uk