Thanks for your response, i am speaking about the Date and time of my camera footage as metadata. meaning The date and time the footage was recorded.

i want to view it on vegas pro 10

thanks

Sorry, my crystal ball is at the cleaners . . .

You should embed it in your brain so that you do not need to send it to the cleaner. Ahahahahah

I started with Vegas version 4 and have been asking for this feature for over a decade.

I long since gave up. The Sony engineers seem to have no interest in making either the metadata nor the line 21 information available to the user through an fX call or similar technique.

Here is a link from seven years ago that contains a solution for DV video:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=453702]DV Tape Metadata

This link might be useful:

Can Vegas line up time code footage?

Thanks for your response, these links didn't help, my video is HD. i guess i will use a third party plug in.

too bad i am forced to use a not trustworthy plug ins, which maybe a spyware.

Perhaps this isn't what you mean, but just in case...

1. Right click on the media
2. Select 'Properties...'
3. Select the 'General' tab.

Well, the OP is smart and never answers any questions, so we will leave it to him to find the appropriate party elsewhere.

Well, the OP is smart and never answers any questions, so we will leave it to him to find the appropriate party elsewhere.That seems unnecessarily harsh. I don't think he deserved that.

A little Googling turned up this utility:

DVMP Pro

I have not used it, but I doubt it is infected with spyware or anything like that. It appears to work with several HD formats, and it provides various ways of extracting and using the time/date codes. It may give you what you want.

It was meant to provoke the OP to get started talking, that's all.
I use DVMPRO5 all the time for matching original timecode, in fact I am likely to be first poster recommending as I have several times. It is a great piece of software.

HOWEVER, depending on what the OP is after, there are many other solutions, but it greatly depends on his source. What is his source? Please tell me.

The OP has answered the questions, he wants the date/time stamp.

As noted in the linked thread previously referenced according to SCS this is available in the project media pane, you need to scroll a long way to the right.
Problem is it's not reliable.
I just checked a camera original MP4 file and it's there.
The same clip rewrapped to MXF by Sony's Clipbrowser doesn't have the data available, at least not according to Vegas.

Bob.

FYI - the OP did not really say anything, other to than infer that he has a camera source , and that he has something to read on the timeline, but are the files re-wrapped? Are they .mov containers? Have they been edited in any way?

There is no universal answer as to how consumer, prosumer, and pro camera soures record timecode or timestamp. Check it out.

I can suggest at least 10 different softwares and workflows to read time inside VegasPro., depending on the source.

There is limited information available when you right click a clip on the timeline and select media properties. In most cases it contains date and time of recording . Isn't that what thew OP was looking for?

I also have an interest in this question. I have an AVCHD Sony handycam that includes a PGS stream in additiion to the video and audio tracks. To my surprise, I played a recent clip on Media Player Classic Home Cinema and if you enable subtitles, the date and time (hr, min, and sec) will be displayed. Perhaps there is a way to convert this PGS stream to video which could then be displayed on the timeline as an additional track?

The problem is that metadata is a moveable feast.
Certainly if we knew exactly the OP's camera, codec and wrapper we would be in a better position to help however step 1 would be for him to look in his project properties. If that reveals the clips date/timestamp then we know Vegas can read it.
If Vegas cannot read it then the issue is more complex to resolve and involves 3rd party tools.

Bob.