Timestamp & DSR-11 Question

The deck should work perfectly well with iMovie ..it's just another FireWire device, and iMovie should recognise it as such.

iMovie doesn't 'natively' display a date & time stamp, even though the program is aware of that data. But you can get Plug-in effects which will present it onscreen ..though you'll probably have to write it in yourself at the start of the effect, and then leave it running: it won't be read in automatically from the video data.

Here's a Plug-in from Stupendous Software.

One way to get display in imovie is this:
In the DSR 11 activate on screen data from the menue, Then output via analogue to another device or video camera input.(so as to convert the signal back to digital ) Then output to imovie via firewire.
Mark

Just to correct myself, -activate on screen data code from the remote control "display" button.
Mark

You mentioned that you've got both iM 4 and FCP HD.

If they're both installed on the same Mac, be aware of Apple's warning that there may be a conflict (..this doesn't apply to iMovie 5/HD):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93804

I think Karl once had a workaround which involves an Applescript reading the date & time data and feeding it into QuickTime to overlay it on top of video, but Mark's suggestion about taking it out via analogue and converting that back to digital is the 'truest' method ..which is what you want in a court of law, isn't it?

That would also work with FCP ..it's a method which is entirely independent of the capture program you're using.