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

[sanguinity]

Renaming or moving a file creates a new backup.

However, Time Machine doesn't run out of space, either, strictly speaking: it will instead delete its very oldest backups, and does so in such a way that the files you've since deleted/renamed/moved are the first to go. So while you might have two copies of "cameorn mirror staples" in Time Machine for a while, if it starts running out of space, it'll get rid of its backup of the version/location of the file that you're no longer using.

So unless you're trying to save files by having Time Machine remember that you used to have them (which is a bad idea, because it is not the logic Time Machine is written to), that duplicated space will eventually clear itself out.

[frayadjacent]

does so in such a way that the files you've since deleted/renamed/moved are the first to go

I did not know that! Good to know. :D

[sanguinity]

I should clarify: files you renamed/moved/deleted recently hang on for a while; files you renamed/moved/deleted way back when go first. But they go long before files that have never been renamed/moved/deleted.

[frayadjacent]

Also good to know. Thanks!