I’ve never had to organize much in the way of videos/photos, until now. I’m going on a trip for a month or two and want to organize the pictures and videos I will be taking. I’m interested in datestamps and tags more than anything. Does anyone have a workflow that works for them? Any apps that make this easier that I haven’t heard of?
EDIT: I’m wondering about things like, downloading media from my camera and having something sort it all in a schema of my choosing. Maybe other things that I don’t know enough to even wonder. Or, maybe there is no there there.
Folders get YYYY-MM-DD, files get whatever they get. A simple text.txt file get placed in each folder describing the photos of that day.
This is what I was going to do. I didn’t know if there was someway of doing it “better”. In lieu of some obvious way of doing it, I was going to do the naming file format, and then write a quick little preview/tagging script.
However you go about it, keep it simple. If it’s complicated or a chore to do, compliance will likely fall off and you might not maintain it.
I do the YMD thing with folders, but fail to do the text file; it’s not a deal killer for me, but there are times we have to figure out what on earth we were doing. We can get a lot of contextual clues from the photos themselves. Depending on what you’re shooting, establishing shots can be really helpful.