Accessing QuickTime metadata to get access to iMovie DV file timestamps.

Can anyone point me to a way to view DV file metadata from a QuickTime file (specifically, the .mov or .dv files captured by iMovie). I am needing to write a DV file renamer, based on the timestamp inside the DV clip, so I am hoping to be able to AppleScript it (or find a command line utility I can use to extract it).
Thanks, much.

Do you mean programs like "MetaX" or "a better finder"? I'm actually looking for something that can edit the tags/annotations for "actor", "director", "producer", etc in .mov and .mp4 files that's better than MetaX. In some files, and I haven't found a pattern yet, MetaX will take a 3.8GB file and output a 5.7GB file when adding metadata info...as such rendering the 4gb+ mp4 file unusable. (i've never been able to get an mp4 file larger than 4gb to work in itunes/frontrow)

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5) Open a Finder window. Navigate to your DVD to the Video_TS folder.
6) Drag the .VOB files from the Video_TS folder and drop then into MPEG Streamclip.
7) If MPEG Streamclip offers to fix timecode breaks, say yes.
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9a) Optional: You can deinterlace your footage in this step, if you like
9b) optional: If you know the date and or time of the footage, name your file
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noodlenose wrote:
My TM is often giving me the "You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file “.002332b7be8a” in folder “Time Machine Backups”" message when I go to select my backup drive.
Wow, I haven't seen that in a looooong time!
Tried the suggested fixes via Terminal and it didn't help because I couldn't get through the entire process without Terminal telling me it couldn't find a file or drive.
Do you mean in #C5 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting?
When I can find the time, I'm going to try Tinker Tool to reveal where that numbered file actually is and give it another go.
It should be at the top level of the drive.
By the way, I've read somewhere that this problem was fixed with Snow Leopard.
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Media card support – ON
Encryption Mode: - Security Password & Device
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2)     Create a “new” folder on the media card and move a file into it then try to read it – No good
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So I think I can’t read the files because I can’t replicate the encryption key. Could that be right? My problem is that I do not understand why this would be the case. It is still the same device and since it knows what the old password was (because it would prevent me from using it again), why would it not generate a key to access the files?
All I am trying to get off the card are pictures on my 6 year old … some are priceless. Can someone help me do this? One would think that this should not be this hard but from all the postings I have found, it seems that it is. And yes, shame on me for not moving the files before I did the reset (THAT will never happen again!) but this being unrecoverable is unconscionable given how many seem to find themselves in this situation.
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