Curious

[frayadjacent]

If you're a vidder and you clip, how do you name (and organize?) your clips?

I try to keep my names short and somewhat descriptive, but the descriptions are generic and don't tend to get at why I think the clip might work in my vid. E.g., "TaraWillowHug.mov", but a lot of very different clips with very different uses might fit that description.  I'm wondering if there are alternatives.

(My clips used to have names like "BtVS_S6E01_BargainingI_TaraWillowHug.mov".  Which is somewhat useful since I know that show really well, so that actually gives me a pretty good idea of what clip I'd be using.  But it wouldn't work for most sources, for me, and anyway I mostly end up only seeing the first part of the name in my Finder window.)

(BTW, this is just an example, I'm not vidding BtVS right now.)

Comments

[frayadjacent]

Ooh, I really like the idea of naming folders after a certain lyric or moment in the song. The closest I've come is having folders like "Chorus1" (and I haven't made that vid yet; I've only clipped for it!).

Part of my problem right now is that I'm clipping for multiple vids, so folders don't necessarily make sense, unless they are categorized more by the content of the clip than how I might intend to use it.

But next time I make a one-off vid, I am totally going to try that.