Capturing HI8 tapes: Date/Time

Hi all,
I recently started to capture my HI8 tape collections from an old HI8 Video Cam via Fire Wire into Premiere Pro CC 2014.
The data/time when the footage was taken is visible for around 3 to 5 seconds in the Camcorder display at the beginning of each tape
but it's not visible anymore if the media is imported into Premiere. Is there any chance to make the date/time stamp visible? Is there
a setting that I may have overseen or any chance to add it manually?
Thanks a lot

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EXCEPT... you may buy a card (I think Blackmagic is one) and then use the device driver supplied by the vendor to "link" the card to Premiere (I did this back in 2002 with a Pinnacle DV500 card)
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