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TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi. I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village, and I'm going to be talking to you
about organizing project files in your home video post-production studio. Organizing project
files in a specific way that you're going to remember is very important from the start.
By the end of any given project, you might have 10 to 20 to 30 folders with different
names. You want to make sure that everything is located on one drive where you can get
to it easily. Make sure that within that folder you've created, you can access each file and
find things quickly. So make sure that whatever you're labeling the folders, it's intuitive
and it makes sense with the project that you're creating. Organizing from an editorial standpoint,
you want to make sure that your separate bins or folders all have specific purposes. So
if you have video of an interview and then you have b-roll that you're supposed to cut
away to, make sure that those are in separate bins and those are easy to locate. A lot of
times, you'll be in the middle of a project and you'll need to find a specific shot or
a specific graphic, and you want to make sure that you're not going to have to waste time
digging around for things that could easily just be right in front of your face. You also
want to make sure that any external pieces of media you're going to have to bring into
your project are in label-appropriate folders so that you're also not spending any time
looking for files or, at the very worst, having to recreate something you've already made
because you just can't find it.