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

[grammarwoman]

What version of Vegas are you using? Mine is 9, and if it takes VOB files, I should kick myself for making things take so effing long.

[littleheaven]

I'm on MovieStudio12HD at the moment, but I've used 6 and 9-11 as well, and they all take .vob. When you "import media" and use that dialogue box to browse to the folder where your media files are stored, they don't show up, but you just change the "file type" from the drop-down menu from "all media files" to "all files" and presto, there they are, and then you can import them. I'm not sure they've ever been officially supported but they've always worked. Although it should be noted .vob is not truly lossless and some people have run into problems because of that. I've had very few issues over about 20 vids, though.

This is one of the main reasons, as a Mac girl, that I keep a PC just to run Vegas. That and the handy "match project settings to media settings" tool. Saves SO much mucking around!

[grammarwoman]

DUDE. I can't wait to try this - thank you!

[littleheaven]

Happy to have helped!