I need favourites, slow mo shots, beauty shots, must-haves, year-in-review clips, best-of, unused, to-be-colour corrected, etc… What puzzles me, in your post too, why people are sorting manually by 'tech data' (?) What info do you get while editing, reading the name of the camera? I don't care for cam-names, date of recording (I always forget to set at last one cam's time/date) etc, I apply angles, due to using 3-6 cams for Multicam.īefore shoot, I planned a structure, based upon my imagination of the outcome - simple time based: before wedding, while wedding, speeches, party = those are my 4 Events inside 'dozen' of keyword lists (beauty shot, smiles, props, family, fun, art, …)Īgain, cam names, date, all sorts of 'tech' info are of no use (for me) massively indexed by content.ĭifferent story for a quick'n dirty schools play:ģ cam Multicam + ext audio, all in one 'box', not keywords, no indexing, slam MC together, drag into timeline, shorten a few pauses, then 'TV truck editing': while play, switch 1/2/3 - project done in real time! (… ok, aside 'minor' tweaks to color adjust, audio adjust… opener, ambient audio (to 'cover' swearing coaches) I wondering how others organise their libraries and events.…ĭepends on the Project (I'm not doing 'movies', so I like the term project)įor my little football reports, my structure isġ special Event contains 'standards', e.g. The only good thing about folders is that they limit the number of shots in the browser. Because tags are more versatile than folders.
Such a folder is for your convenience only, imo many of them are of little use for a small to medium project (meaning *film*). Some prefer to make events for days of shooting, some make a new event for every card they import, others like to sort by content. There has to be one event at least, but you can create as many as you like. An event, on the other hand, is little else but a folder. If you split a whole film into several libraries, clips used in the project(s) had to be constantly copied between them. A library is where all the data needed for one *film* is either stored or linked to (you wrote above that you store externally). Maybe you've read that somewhere, but I think it's a bad way, depending on how you use libraries.
Especially when you want to move an edit to your Macbook Pro to edit on the go. Right now I create a dedicated library for every event.