Colin Browell
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[Ali Elamin] “does it merge m2ts clips and preserve 1920*1080 resolution plus 5.1 surround sound cause i could nor verify that in their website”
It does not merge clips but you can use the batch processor to stamp lots of files at once. It preserves the same resolution, and the original AC-3 sound is included as an audio stream in the AVI file aswell, so it will still be 5.1 if that is what the camera recorded.
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Can you explain what the problem is? Is the date and time not displaying correctly?
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Try out the demo version of DVMP Pro https://www.dvmp.co.uk
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Another possibility is DVMP Pro which can date stamp the frames, outputting a high res AVI file which can be uncompressed, lossless compressed (e.g. lagarith) or compressed using other compressors on your PC. Alternatively it can output a subtitle file that can be used in many DVD authoring programs. You can also choose to “stamp” or produce subtitles including other metadata such as shutter speed, f-stop, gain, focus distance etc provided your camera stores these metadata types. There’s a demo version available to play with from https://www.dvmp.co.uk
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[Andy Mees] “Hopefully they’ll add support for more modern/current formats as time goes on.”
DVMP Pro can do that and more for DV, HDV and AVCHD, but it’s for Windows only, although it may run OK VMWare Fusion or similar. There’s a demo version at https://www.dvmp.co.uk
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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.
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[Tim Kolb] “HDV is not like DV in the sense that DV actually turns the FW cable into a real-time video conduit. HDV is being moved as data and when you’re previewing, you’re decoding on the fly. When you capture, you’re transferring zeros and ones and adding a decode/view step in there would have to be a parallel process.”
HDV and DV are fairly similar in that respect. During capture both are transferred as compressed data which is dumped onto the hard drive. For preview, the compressed data is also forked into a preview branch where it passes through a decoder and then to a renderer window – DV and HDV are treated the same. The GOP structure of HDV doesn’t prevent a preveiw being possible, it would just mean that the deocoder may have to wait for an I-frame before the preview was available.
HDVSplit can do preview while capturing in this way. I suspect that the reason why PPro doesn’t do preview is the extra processing power required to decode it (decoding isn’t necessary for capturing which is just dumping the firewire data onto hard drive), which may make unbroken capture unreliable.
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Is this for DV clips? If so DVMP Pro will let you rewrite the timecode starting from a specific hh:mm:ss:ff, or adjust any element by a specific + or – amount.
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Dvdate is standard definition DV only. The question is about HDV m2t files.
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Does this problem still exist?
If so, would it help if the file’s Date Created or Date Modified file properties could be changed so that they were the date and time when the recording was actually made?
DVMP Pro 3 can add the recording date and time to the end of the filename of HDV, DV (.avi and .dv), AVCHD and MOD files, but a change to the Date Created or Date Modified file properties might be preferable.