How do you organize your files?

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Raputtak

Member Joined: May 26, 2012 22:12 Messages: 51 Offline

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Nov 26, 2013 16:41

I come back from a scooter rally, a band gig, or a vacation trip with a whole bunch of still pictures and video files files from my GoPro's and Sony camcorder. I then struggle to make order out of chaos:

I divvy the files up by 'event', the long ride, the gymkhana, the day at the beach, the gig at the corner bar, etc. I make a folder for each event and throw a date in to the name as many are similar and to sequence them.

In each event folder I have three sub folders: "files from source" where I put everything that pertains to the event, "project files" where I put the clips and stills I chose to use, the .PDS files and 'produced' files, etc. Lastly, I have a 'Final Video" folder where the finished product goes.

Is this over kill? Anyone have a better/more efficient way of managing files?

Thanks,
"Newbie drowning in data". Custom computer: 8 processors, 16G Ram, ,C: drive 250G solid state. F: (Scratch drive) 2x 500Gb raid (0). G: (Data drive) 2Tb raid (1)
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Nov 26, 2013 20:33

Hi Raputtak -

It doesn't sound like you're drowning in data at all. It sounds like you're on top of it. What you're effectively doing is creating working project folders as you're going.

Of course, everyone thinks differently and a filing system that suits one may not suit another.

I read a claim recently that certain tutorials were the best PD tutorials on the net, but I doubt you'd find any that come close to these ones on Project Management...

http://youtu.be/FAOnn8g0C_o
http://youtu.be/D2CYLYIynB0

You'll find those tutorials back up some of the steps you've taken.

Cheers - Tony
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