Blue Iris

cameraoperatorr wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:48 am I have enabled all of the check boxes (re-encode, add text, time-lapse) but no combination of these ends up showing the timestamp on the exported video.

This may be your ticket.

So a little experimenting produced overlays for me the way one would assume they would/should work -- when selecting the file to export from the clip viewer which obviously already includes the overlay/time/date stamp by default. Can't vouch for just converting/exporting files from their storage locations or batch processes, though imagine the overlay editing option in the camera config menu (not the camera itself) would determine the result there.

I was able to add an additional overlay from the camera editing capability shown in the previous post which also provides for images and various ways to add other overlay content.

The default clip viewer timestamp overlay should be included in recordings exported from the clip viewer based on the results I just produced from cameras with no active overlays in their actual live stream configurations -- either from BI or the cameras themselves.