Richard Cavell
April 27th, 2012, 05:29 AM
Hi, everyone. I'm currently shooting footage for a series of TV/video projects. It's the kind where I'm going to end up with hundreds of hours of footage and use only a small percentage of it. I want to sort this footage by multiple criteria. For example, I want to be able to search for "all footage shot on 19 March", or "all footage containing images of John", or "all footage that uses the dolly". Trying to think of unique filenames and paths for my footage is quite difficult, so I'm doing it by the principal subject of the footage, and the date. (eg ~/Movies/Raw Footage/John/19 March/John walking.mov)
My workplace uses FCP X, although I haven't had a chance to get really familiar with it yet. We're still in footage-getting mode. I'm tempted to set up hard or soft links, so that for example, a "19 March" directory will contain soft links to all such footage, or a "dolly shots" directory will contain soft links to all dolly footage, etc. This means that there will be multiple paths by which to access some footage.
Or should I be doing this in FCP X? Should I be importing all footage and then tagging them somehow within FCP X?
Richard
My workplace uses FCP X, although I haven't had a chance to get really familiar with it yet. We're still in footage-getting mode. I'm tempted to set up hard or soft links, so that for example, a "19 March" directory will contain soft links to all such footage, or a "dolly shots" directory will contain soft links to all dolly footage, etc. This means that there will be multiple paths by which to access some footage.
Or should I be doing this in FCP X? Should I be importing all footage and then tagging them somehow within FCP X?
Richard