[CS4] About timecode

I'm a little confused here about how timecode is displayed or even if it can be displayed short of some video effect helper tool or whatever.
I use a Sony (sd) VX2100 that shoots with miniDV and produces DV-avi capture clips.
Those clips are named with what I took to be timecode. I used Scenalyser to capture so end up with clips like:
hp1'20100912 14.47.03.avi
hp1'20100912 14.51.12.avi
hp1'20100912 15.00.18.avi
hp1'20100912 15.09.26.avi
hp1'20100912 14.51.12.avi
hp1'20100912 15.00.18.avi
hp1'20100912 15.09.26.avi
I took the digits after the space to represent:
<b>mm.ss.frames</b>, and to be the <b>mm.ss.fr</b> when that clip started.
I also took the numbers that appear when a clip is in the source monitor (on the bottom left) to be timecode numbers. But they don't match the filenames. A few may have the same number somewhere in the clip but mostly the number in monitor is nowhere close to the clip name.
Are those clip names derived from timecode?
Am I right to think the numbers on left bottom of source monitor is derived from timecode?
I hoped someone can tell me what I'm looking at. Can I display the time code easily somehow? I mean without trick effects or whatever... just whatever is embedded already in the clip, or is the source monitor it?

Stan Jones wrote:
I also use scenalyzer and have clip names like yours. I love the convenience.
The beginning timecode in the source monitor window matches the time code in the clip name.
When you say "bottom left," there is a number (in my CS4 yellow orange) to the left side and just below the video window. When the clip is opened, it matches the beginning and changes as appropriate to the timecode. The number on the right is the length of the clip.
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Do you mean the number on the source monitor when scrubbed all the way right should match the number in the file?
If so, that is what I thought was supposed to be the case but as you see in the screen grab, It is not holding true for me.
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If I place a clip marker, this timecode also matches the timecode if I put the clip on the timeline and apply the timecode effect, with the timecode source set to "media."
I think we are talking about the same numbers on the source monitor but have included a screen grab showing the location.
But note in the screen shot that the file name in the source monitor has the name:
[...]18.34.34.avi But the numbers on the source monitor are radically different:
[...]47;07;25
And that kind of wild difference is true on all the clips when displayed in source monitor.

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