View Full Version : XF300 date/time burnin on card


A.D.Wyatt Norton
July 19th, 2013, 02:16 PM
Love this camera, but one question: I just had a client request burned in date/time onto card they provide. Yes, lawyers. Tried display date/time and output ON in custom display and nothing. Output must be to card directly. Dropping this question a couple of places in hope that my dimmness is the problem and it can be done.

Dan Conroy
July 19th, 2013, 09:51 PM
Isn't it part of the meta data already? With the clips?

Rainer Listing
July 19th, 2013, 10:05 PM
Do you mean burned in permanently so that it always displays? If so and if it's the same as the XF100, it's really deep in the menu: Custom functions>Other functions>Character Rec>0n/off.

A.D.Wyatt Norton
July 22nd, 2013, 10:18 AM
Oh Ho! I'll try that later today when I can get off the damned computer and pick up a camera again. Thanks and I'll report back here.

A.D.Wyatt Norton
July 22nd, 2013, 01:35 PM
it's the same as the XF100, it's really deep in the menu: Custom functions>Other functions>Character Rec>0n/off.

You are the toppermost of the Poppermost, sir. So simple. So obscurely buried. It even gives you a bright red indicator onscreen that it's actively recording characters. Fantastic, then! Thanks.

Mark Watson
July 28th, 2013, 02:50 AM
I found that if I'm using the WFM that appears as red and green stripes along the bottom of the LCD, the date and time won't be displayed/recorded, The other two WFM displays don't interfere,

Mark