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

[littleheaven]

You're on a Mac, right? I used Premiere Pro to make Dance Across The Floor, and I had to convert to .dv from .vob. In that instance, I ripped the .vob, then located the clip using my notes and converted that particular scene to .dv using Mpeg Streamclip. I've read that some people have managed to get it to work with .vob but others (and me) found it crashes the programme. This is one of the reasons I still vid on PC, even though I have this honking great Mac Pro with dual quad-cores and loads of RAM - Vegas cuts out the whole clip conversion process and makes life much easier. I have a Windows laptop just to run it.

[frayadjacent]

yeah, I also read that premiere is unstable with .vobs, but I did find something somewhere on the internets indicating that you can get it to work with some kind of settings change...clearly I don't remember what it was, but if/when I get to that I'll look into it more and post if I learn something useful.