My Video Editing Folder Structure and File Management Template

Thanks looks great to keep the project tracking with some organization.

Thank you so much for this!! As we started to grow our business managing files has become a serious task for clients that requires constant massive filming! With a bit of tweaking, this really helped us organize a system that actually matches the needs of our specific projects! It would be so awesome if you made a video on corrupted files and how to manage them. Because we just lost one complete hard drive and really invaluable footage for corrupted files.

what a brilliant channel!!!!!

Thanks. Really well thought out and very useful!

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thank you so much, great practical video

Where do you keep the working folders like cache files, gallery stills, etc

Very helpful description of the logic of your structure, thanks! I'm wondering if you have any tools you'd recommend for managing a whole database of raw footage, something that you can use to tag and organize by theme, location, etc. Most of my work is for my church, so I have a huge backlog of footage from very diverse shoots, but all of it is potentially useful for event promos, etc. Something like Bridge for photos, but for raw videos instead (Bridge didn't work for me because it doesn't preview .braw.) If you have any thoughts, I'd super appreciate it, thanks!

Amazing! Could you do this with an davinci project, exporting and showing the process before all the folders and how to correctly export for those places?? Thanks!!!

Really great to be organized - I used to use the analogy of folder and file organization to "imagine how hard it would be to find utensils to eat or cook with, if you took the forks, knives, spoons out of the dishwasher and just dropped them into random drawers in your kitchen cabinets?" Sometimes a good memory, is not as good, if you are not organized.
You want to quickly find your keys to your car? - put them in the same place when you come home.
So I am a big fan of this video as far as organization is concerned.
The only thing that I think people in media production should be aware of is using certain things in the name structures like periods, or forward or back slashes. If it just for you, there may never be a problem with doing that - but other people mau run harmless apps or codes for back-ups, or different reasons that the coder of the apps, don't have code in place to deal with. And it may even throw errors when the period is being treated as the spot that proceeds the file type. Or the forward slash is being treated as a folder level.
Coming from older tech ( me being older ) I have always gotten into the habit of using Underscores or hyphens to add clarity to a folder or file name. I even avoid spaces in the naming ( although spaces are usually dealt with in almost all coding these days ).

But the structure and the whole idea of media organization is a real timesaver that a lot of people overlook and this video is extremely helpful in that regard.
And to add one of my pet peeves - In Resolve - Label your nodes. If you use a fixed node tree - then you only need to do it once. You might think it's a waste of time, but every colorist that I have ever met has at one time or another opened up and old powergrade or an old project and looked at a big mess of nodes, and thing to themselves -"What the hell was I trying to do here" . Which then you start tracing back each property in each node until the lightbulb goes off and you remember. Best to be organized from the start.
Thanks for this video Joshua - this will help many people - even some that will get handed a project and has never seen this video - nice job

this content is more valuable than a masterclass that i already taken last month with another tutor. this folder structure is more advance.

Wow! Thx

Thank you for this video it is extremely helpful! Can you please explain about what are proxys and how we can get them to manage before editing?

This is extremely helpful insight into professional video organization. Most of us were forced to find a structure and tweak it so this is awesome information for beginner to intermediatre. Would have loved this video when I started. lol. You're answering questions most content creators either don't share or don't want to share. Golden content. Keep em' coming. Much love.