How do you organize your videos?

jimerb · Post by **jimerb** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:42 am

I'm wondering if anyone with more experience than me can share how you organize your video clips and other stuff?

Namely:

1) Where do you keep your raw footage? Do you back it up? Do you migrate it somewhere else after you are done making a production video? What if you have to remake it? Do you have a strategy for redoing the video?

2) Where do you keep your sound effects?

3) Where do you keep your music files (smartsound?)

4) How do you organize it in video studio? Do you make seperate folder groups?

Thanks for sharing anything you find noteworthy. I'm admittedly a rookie.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:45 am

Most of my stuff is kept on two separate external USB drives attached to different computers. Important or expensive stuff is further backed up onto a removable IDE Hard drive and kept elsewhere than being attached to a computer so that if the need arises I can go and get it and repair/restore from that IDE Drive. In fact I have several hard drives kept in various drawers and even the loft.

Of course the best place for these back ups is to keep them at some one else's house, just in case a big rock falls out of the sky and demolishes the house (hopefully without me in it!)

Coral · Post by **Coral** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:21 am

sjj1805 wrote:Of course the best place for these back ups is to keep them at some one else's house, just in case a big rock falls out of the sky and demolishes the house (hopefully without me in it!)

Has it got that bad over there ?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:26 pm

Yikes!!! Where's my house gone?

Coral · Post by **Coral** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:17 pm

Exelent humor !!

Coral · Post by **Coral** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:30 pm

This is the best I can offer you

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A22EXPNI

aafuss · Post by **aafuss** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:28 am

I store most of my video on a Seagate USB hard drive.

For sound effects or music that I use, I like to keep these in "sounds"-with subfolders for what type of music it is.

I don't often use folder groups in Video Studio, as I import my media on a project by project basis.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:15 pm

Read this Videomaker.com article:
Media Management

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:30 am

You might also be interested in my system for filing photographs:
Organise your pictures on your Hard Drive

jimerb · Post by **jimerb** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:33 am

Black Lab wrote:Read this Videomaker.com article:
Media Management

Great article. Thanks for all the tips.