Hello, I have video files (AVCHD) that come from a Canon HF11 camcorder and
as long as I don't edit them (Premiere Pro CS4 in this case), Windows Media
Center can sort them properly by date, but if I bring in multiple video files
into PPro, edit them and then re-export them, they lose all the metadata and
I can't sort my video's by date any longer. Anyone know of a way to put the
recorded date/time back into a file that has been edited?

Thanks in advance!
--
Dave

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:33:01 -0700, David B
<david.bowlbyzone******.com> wrote:

>
>Hello, I have video files (AVCHD) that come from a Canon HF11 camcorder and
>as long as I don't edit them (Premiere Pro CS4 in this case), Windows Media
>Center can sort them properly by date, but if I bring in multiple video files
>into PPro, edit them and then re-export them, they lose all the metadata and
>I can't sort my video's by date any longer. Anyone know of a way to put the
>recorded date/time back into a file that has been edited?

In vista, find the output WMV file, right-click to choose Properties
menu item, then Details. Scroll down to the Origin -> Media Created
part, and click in the blank part to the right of the Media Created
label. Enter the correct recording date there and OK out of that.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

I have video files (AVCHD) from Panasonic ZS3 camera. My computer has vista.
The window medial player won't recognized the video files. I could not find
the version of medial player. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Wayne

"David B" wrote:

> Hello, I have video files (AVCHD) that come from a Canon HF11 camcorder and
> as long as I don't edit them (Premiere Pro CS4 in this case), Windows Media
> Center can sort them properly by date, but if I bring in multiple video files
> into PPro, edit them and then re-export them, they lose all the metadata and
> I can't sort my video's by date any longer. Anyone know of a way to put the
> recorded date/time back into a file that has been edited?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --
> Dave

AVCHD uses an MPEG2 transport strewm container, so you need 2 things
here : A "splitter" and a "decoder".

Haali media splitter shoudl achieve the firs part and let media player
open the file : http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

It then needs to decode the contents, which aren't in a native media
player format (codec) so you'd also need to install FFDShow for
playback : http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDshow.htm

Nero Recode and other software can be used to convert the AVCHD file
to another format (like WMV or plain MP4) if you prefer that
approach... http://www.nero.com/enu/nero9-applic...-included.html


HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:45:01 -0800, Wayne
<Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have video files (AVCHD) from Panasonic ZS3 camera. My computer has vista.
> The window medial player won't recognized the video files. I could not find
>the version of medial player. Any thoughts? Thanks.
>
>Wayne
>
>"David B" wrote:
>
>> Hello, I have video files (AVCHD) that come from a Canon HF11 camcorder and
>> as long as I don't edit them (Premiere Pro CS4 in this case), Windows Media
>> Center can sort them properly by date, but if I bring in multiple video files
>> into PPro, edit them and then re-export them, they lose all the metadata and
>> I can't sort my video's by date any longer. Anyone know of a way to put the
>> recorded date/time back into a file that has been edited?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> --
>> Dave
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs