How do you organize your files ?

jamesd1981

Member Location: kilmarnock Joined: May 19, 2014 04:38 Messages: 78 Offline

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Aug 05, 2016 09:30

Before starting to deal with the nightmare of changing file names in my projects, i am looking to implement a better system of storage organization and was wondering what systems others used for their file organization

Firstly do you keep a seperate section for your editing projects to your general video storage, thus ending up with duplicates of the same video`s

I am trying out different combinations of tree type folder structure to better keep my files ordered

Any advice is very much appreciated

I have linked a quick desktop recording of my folder structure at the moment, as you will see it is very generic and file names mixed, some have dates at the end, some don`t etc.

https://youtu.be/mIWqMG9fhVQ

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Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Aug 05, 2016 09:54

Did you watch the Project Management Tutorials?

Project Managment 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAOnn8g0C_o

Project Managment 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2CYLYIynB0

The best advice is to create a temporary folder for all of your assets and Copy the original media to that folder.

Personally I create a folder named for the project I am working on. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

jamesd1981

Member Location: kilmarnock Joined: May 19, 2014 04:38 Messages: 78 Offline

Aug 05, 2016 10:26

Quote: Did you watch the Project Management Tutorials?

Project Managment 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAOnn8g0C_o

Project Managment 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2CYLYIynB0

The best advice is to create a temporary folder for all of your assets and Copy the original media to that folder.

Personally I create a folder named for the project I am working on.

Thanks Carl, a good channel and good base to start

I think a permananet folder rather than a temp folder would be more suitable, as it would avoid any problems with changing file names in future, so i keep the files in a projects only folder that never have the file names changed, it would mean in my general video storage where the original files would be, even if i changed a file name it would not actually affect the project.

This method may use more drive space, but hopefully will remove the worry about have files used in projects mixed in with files not used in projects

jamesd1981

Member Location: kilmarnock Joined: May 19, 2014 04:38 Messages: 78 Offline

Aug 05, 2016 11:35

Made another quick video, first part is run through of current folder structure, followed by temp folder on desktop with example of potential new structure

Is the new structure any better or are there any potential problems with it ?

https://youtu.be/1aGNeWD02N0

jcardana

Senior Contributor Location: USA-NM Joined: Aug 04, 2014 10:11 Messages: 650 Offline

Aug 09, 2016 08:54

If I may chime in...

When I created my grand-daughters 17min Graduation Video, I had hundreds of images, video and audio clips.

I have an entire drive for Video Editing which I named 'Cyberlink'

I made a 'Projects' folder for all video projects and a 'PhotoDirector' folder for Photo Projects.

Inside my 'Projects' folder, a make folders related to the project I'm working on.

Then inside that, I use a standard folders template/tree

Directory Structure

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Aug 09, 2016 12:40

Those videos have been removed by the OP.

Once the video and images are brought in the pc with the right software there should not be a reason to rename them afterwards as I find that most filenames have the date and times or exif data already in them. Rename them and how would you remember that data 10 years from now without viewing for that data. That is the way I see it.