Timecode in AVI-Files

I have captured all my MiniDVs (recorded with Sony TRV20) with Pinnacle V9 a year ago.
Now I changed to Premiere Elements V8. When I want to edit these AVI-Files I see a perfect Timecode, but always starting at 00:00:00.00 instead of the Timecode corresponding to the real time when I made the recording. In Pinnacle I can see and use the correct TC, but I can't find any absolute TC-information in PE.
Where did my TC go?
Is there a preference I have to configure in PE or in the Organizer?

This is just a late 'progress report' to tell a bit of my experiences:
ScenAlyzer is a simple to use program to split up DV-AVI-Files (by Datestamp or Optical change). What I like very much is: the output file name is composed by a base name and either the number of the sequence or, and that is really good, the date/time of the datestamp.
I wrote an Email to the owner of the software to ask if the developmend and support of this software will continue. Unfortunately I never got an answer. Nevertheless I will use ScenAnalyzer mainly to add the recording date to the filename.
DVMP is a much more sophisticated program which allows to split an AVI-File by datestamp or optical. There are a couple of manipulation possibilities, e.g. change the beginning of the datestamp of a sequence. I couldn't test this feature since I have only the demo version where functionnality is restricted.
Sending an Email to the DVMP-Team was in vain since I did not get any answer.
After all my tests I finally (!) had the idea to split up my AVI-files using PRE 8. I distributed the sequence in the timeline on PC as 'Uncompressed Microsoft AVI'. That worked fine. Except: splitting this way removed the datestamp (I realized that only when I wanted to add this datestamp to the filename using ScenAnalyzer, but the pogram couldn't find the datestamp).
So I wanted to split up my AVI-File using the File -> Export. But I could not do anything since the Export-Function is in gray - I can't start it.
This question I will ask in a new thread: "File export function is grey / inactive".

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Hallo all,
I'm new to this forum so before asking my question I'd like to say some words about myself:
I'm not a native english speaker, so please excuse language mistakes I'll possibly make and feel free to ask if I'll write something which you don't understand due to this fact.
Half year ago I bought a HD Cam from Canon (Legria HF 200) which - in my opinion - has a good quality (good enough for my hobby films), and realized that cutting HD films on Windows would require a lot of expensive high end hardware. So I bought a MacBook and Final Cut Express - a decision I'm very happy with.
After the first disastrous tries to make a small clip I bought Tom Wolsky's "Editorial Workshop for FCE" and now I'm more happy than I was before (because I've seen that you're posting here: thanks for the great book!)
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4.) Or is there any other way to solve my problem?
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André

You're welcome, and thank you for the reply.
2) Yesterday I made the subclips with the In-Out Points and Command-U, the benefit is that I've seen the clip before naming it. Now I'm using markers, it's benefit is that I can write comment and (the later) clip name at once, the drawback is that I have to view to the next shot's beginning before knowing what the shot contains.
But now I found out that I can reconnect my clips independently to the format I converted the master clip to. I reconnected the media to the original AVI file and it worked, too! The more I work with, the more I'm sold on it... - although it doesn't seem to be able to read and use the date information within the DV AVI.
1) Ok, I tried something similar within FCE. Just worked, but the file size still remains. Which codec settings should I use? Is the export to DV in MOV with a quality of 75% acceptable for both file size and quality? Or would be encoding as H.264 with best quality an option for archiving, knowing that I have to convert it back to DV if I (maybe) wan't to use it for editing later? Or anything else?
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