newbie wants to remove date from captured video at DVinfo.net

Tia Bailey · November 17th, 2005, 01:59 PM

Over the last few months, I have taped a lot of football games for my son's team. I am now in the process of editing them and discovered that, the date stamp that I used to think was so handy for archival purposes, has now become an enigma -- it often occupies the very few seconds of footage that I would like to keep!

Does anyone know of a plug-in .. or clever trick to remove/hide the date from tape that I can't re-capture? I have an older analog video camcorder and am using Pinnacle Plus 9 to edit things, if this helps.

Richard Alvarez · November 17th, 2005, 03:45 PM

The time/date stamp is on the tape? Then it's on the image. No way to 'remove' it. You can mask it with a box or blur it with a filter, but no way to remove it and have the footage underneath be pristine.

Nick Hiltgen · November 17th, 2005, 05:37 PM

Clever trick? Put up 16:9 bars, most of the time that will cover up any time and date stamp unless it's in the middle of the screen.

Boyd Ostroff · November 17th, 2005, 05:45 PM

That's funny - on my plasma TV I usually watch 4:3 programs in "zoom" mode so it chops off the top and bottom and fits the width to the screen. This has the same sort of effect, eliminating all the text crawls, logos and other junk that the networks like to superimpose on the bottom of the screen :-)

November 17th, 2005, 01:59 PM	#1
Tia Bailey Tourist Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1	newbie wants to remove date from captured video Over the last few months, I have taped a lot of football games for my son's team. I am now in the process of editing them and discovered that, the date stamp that I used to think was so handy for archival purposes, has now become an enigma -- it often occupies the very few seconds of footage that I would like to keep! Does anyone know of a plug-in .. or clever trick to remove/hide the date from tape that I can't re-capture? I have an older analog video camcorder and am using Pinnacle Plus 9 to edit things, if this helps.

November 17th, 2005, 05:37 PM	#3
Nick Hiltgen Trustee Join Date: May 2003 Location: Atlanta GA Posts: 1,427	Clever trick? Put up 16:9 bars, most of the time that will cover up any time and date stamp unless it's in the middle of the screen. __________________ I have a dream that one day canon will release a 35mm ef to xl adapter and I'll have iris control and a 35mm dof of all my ef lenses, and it will be awesome...

November 17th, 2005, 03:45 PM	#2
Richard Alvarez Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Mateo, CA Posts: 3,840	The time/date stamp is on the tape? Then it's on the image. No way to 'remove' it. You can mask it with a box or blur it with a filter, but no way to remove it and have the footage underneath be pristine.

November 17th, 2005, 05:45 PM	#4
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,787	That's funny - on my plasma TV I usually watch 4:3 programs in "zoom" mode so it chops off the top and bottom and fits the width to the screen. This has the same sort of effect, eliminating all the text crawls, logos and other junk that the networks like to superimpose on the bottom of the screen :-)