On 12 Mar 2003 05:59:12 -0800, Martin J. Petersen <Martin_member@newsguy.com> wrote:

>I just bought a trv950. Before buying that machine, I created a lot of movies

>on my father's trv510. The 950 is mini dv, the 510 is digital 8.

>

>I want to copy movies from the 510 to the 950, but I want the 'data' part in

>tact - meaning that I would like to perform the copy so that date and timestamp

>and other machine data capture are copied onto the mini dv tapes.

>

>It looks to me like the only option Sony provides is to copy the image of date

>and time, and only if the date and time are displayed when you perform the copy,

>and when you do that, the date and time are always visible on the copied

>version. I'd like to copy that data and only show date/time when I chose to on

>the destination machine (eg, the 950).

>

>Is there a way to accomplish what I would like to do?

I may be wrong (try it! ;-), but a FireWire copy

D8 to Mini-DV should preserve ALL data, including

date/time (it does with transfer to/from a computer

by FireWire, anyway...).