Organizing Effects Clips at DVinfo.net

Alan James · August 11th, 2007, 10:00 AM

I’m making a short that’s all on green screen (my 2nd green screen short) and I am running into organization problems every time I make one of these. Or anything that has a lot of effects. Basically I’m not sure what I should name my exported clips and where I should put them. I have a system of organization right now but it doesn’t seem to be optimum. I wanted to know what are all your ways of organizing effect clips? What folders are they in on your hard drives? How do you name them? Where do the save files go? All that’s stuff.

Basically I’m not happy with my effects organization and I want a new one. So any suggestions are great.

Thanx

Alan James · August 14th, 2007, 04:36 AM

Anyone have any suggestions?

Emre Safak · August 14th, 2007, 05:33 AM

Create a separate folder for your FX, and label the clips according to the scene and shot number, e.g. \roto\4.3#1.avi means scene 4, shot 3, take 1.

Alan James · August 14th, 2007, 12:15 PM

Thats my current system but sometimes I have to do effects before I edit. For example. If I want something to be interpolated slow motion I will have to export the original then slow it down, render it and re-import it. A lot of times after seeing stuff cut together I change my mind and want to add a shot. Lets say I add a shot between shot 5 and 6 of my scene well what should I do? Call it 5.5? It seems to mess up the organization of my system and I'm one of those ppl that is very crazy about my organization.

Does anyone know how professional visual effect companies like ILM organize their footage?

August 11th, 2007, 10:00 AM	#1
Alan James Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 261	Organizing Effects Clips I’m making a short that’s all on green screen (my 2nd green screen short) and I am running into organization problems every time I make one of these. Or anything that has a lot of effects. Basically I’m not sure what I should name my exported clips and where I should put them. I have a system of organization right now but it doesn’t seem to be optimum. I wanted to know what are all your ways of organizing effect clips? What folders are they in on your hard drives? How do you name them? Where do the save files go? All that’s stuff. Basically I’m not happy with my effects organization and I want a new one. So any suggestions are great. Thanx

August 14th, 2007, 04:36 AM	#2
Alan James Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 261	Anyone have any suggestions?

August 14th, 2007, 05:33 AM	#3
Emre Safak Trustee Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Brookline, MA Posts: 1,447	Create a separate folder for your FX, and label the clips according to the scene and shot number, e.g. \roto\4.3#1.avi means scene 4, shot 3, take 1.

August 14th, 2007, 12:15 PM	#4
Alan James Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 261	Thats my current system but sometimes I have to do effects before I edit. For example. If I want something to be interpolated slow motion I will have to export the original then slow it down, render it and re-import it. A lot of times after seeing stuff cut together I change my mind and want to add a shot. Lets say I add a shot between shot 5 and 6 of my scene well what should I do? Call it 5.5? It seems to mess up the organization of my system and I'm one of those ppl that is very crazy about my organization. Does anyone know how professional visual effect companies like ILM organize their footage?