Help! XH A1 Burned display settings to wedding video tape by accident!

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Noj

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I have a very sick feeling today, looking at my wedding video footage from my XH A1 wedding video from yesterday. I shoot legal video, and, ironically, got a Panasonic AG_HMC150 because it burns date/time to original recordings, which I was told on this forum the XH-A1 would not do. The best I could manage, was to burn the display data to external DVD, not to tape. I messed around with a custom preset as per another users advice, but did not seem to have any luck outputing the date/time to tape. I have been using the Panasonic pretty much exclusively for the last year.
So, for this wedding, for friends, as I am not regularly a wedding videographer, I decided to use the A1 because, well, overall it's a better camera, and the colors, etc, ..... well, you all know that it's makes superior video.
So, my hope against hope -- is there any way to output what I have on tape without the display settings showing up? I use Adbobe Premiere Pro -- is there any kind of plug in, filter, anything I can do here? I use a Canon HV 40 as a back up camera and as a playback deck, and already played with the setting there, which will not get rid of the display settings.
Any help will aid me in getting giant egg off my face!
(I suppose the good news, is, I now know I can use the A1 to shoot legal video, just making sure only the date/time are on my display screen.)

A million thanks for some good news!
Jon
 
After thinking about it, and researching the manual, I can answer my own question here. This data is burned on my tape, no way around it (if you have a miracle in hand, please do let me know).

This is a note for everyone else who cares, custom function #20, page 89 in the manual -- when you have that function set to "yes", whatever is showing as your display data will be saved directly onto tape. So, yes, you can burn date/time, or any other data you can set to appear on display, onto tape.
 
If you cropped loose enough, maybe you could letterbox to a 'scope' wide screen, and call it artistic. I assume the data is top and or bottom only and the middle is clear. Or if you are only delivering DVD, you can zoom in quite a bit without losing resolution, again original would need to be wide enough to allow for that.
 
I'm sure you've thought of this but if it is just date and time in one spot, what about overlaying an image? Maybe a logo with Bride & Groom's name and the date of wedding?
 
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