How to Organize Your Video Assets | Folder Structure for Video Editors

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Learn how to organize your video files so that you never again have to go insane tracking down that one last piece of footage.

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  1. As a fellow creator, I’ve run into the same challenge — scattered files, too many devices, and struggling to find that one moment in a mountain of footage.
    Recently, a friend and I started building an AI-powered footage management tool to help creators like us organize and search their footage — while keeping everything secure and local. Would you be interested in trying out our beta version? I’d love to hear your feedback. Thanks!

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  7. I love it!!! Even though I'm just a serious mature, even amatures need to get organized, and I just ran into the "where's the beef", moment, only it's "where's the shot I did last year in Sedona, that I really need now to try and put a band aid on some of this "new" Sedona footage.? Ok, so I really like how you did this. I do have Premiere Pro, so I'll check out some of your advanced articles on the scratch files, etc. Thank you so much for sharing some of your expertise on all of this. P.S. I almost laughed out loud when you zoomed out on that huge picture of all the files, to where you couldn't even read them any more. I can truly identify with that. Marc T.

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  10. Thank you so much for your insight! When I started editing films, a friend suggested the following structure for each project that I use to this day:

    VIDEO PROJECT NAME:
    __ INPUT (with videos, music files, logos, … sometimes separated by individual subfolders, depending on the amount of files)
    __ PREMIERE FILE (=edit data)
    __ OUTPUT (final video(s), thumbnails)

    But because of your video, I think I might make some adjustments 🙂

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    I was wondering how you would go about structuring footage that you are likely to use for several different video editing projects in the future.
    So, let's say I shoot footage over a span of a year or more (several events, e.g.) and I don't plan on making just one final video out of it. But instead I will edit some of the footage this month. And then I will reuse some of the footage as well as other footage for another video in two months, and then reuse some of it again for another video project next year, … You get the idea.

    Would you put the footage in a separate folder (using suitable subfolders) OUTSIDE of any project folders and keep it there and then just refer to this separate footage folder once you start editing a new video? Or would you copy and paste the footage for every new editing?

    Thanks in advance!

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  16. Why you've stopped making videos regularly? loved the way you explained entire process so smoothly keeping us fully engaged. It was entertaining too specially the end. Please start again, want to see more videos from you!

    😇

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  23. This is great and such an overlooked skill set. I do the same thing with even fewer folders. I label mine as such date client project. (V). (P) (A). Within those folders I have duplicated the names and inserted an E, and an R, into the parenthese this allows me to distinguish between a RAW and edited.

    Usually my a folder just stands for audio and assets, as I don’t usually fill up too many things in those. Lastly, I create a folder in parentheses (PJT. ) that’s where any of my project files live all within one folder ecosystem. I do a lot of multimedia stuff, so I always have about photography and video music audio and sound.

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  24. Hey Alexander. Thank you for your video. I have a question regarding the Motion Graphics Template Media in my project folder. Within this folder, I noticed several subfolders with the extension .aegraphic. However, I have realized that not all of these mogrts are actually being used in the project. Could you please advise on how to delete these unnecessary files?

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  25. My issue is I don't make many videos recorded irl. It's a lot of trailers, game clips, or just meme. Memes are a nightmare because I don't want to lose the clips I got to make those. Sounds, youtube videos, etc, but good lord whe. You just want to make a quick meme it's rough. I figure I'll probably make an archive folder of goofy videos
    I need to get an absolute master hdd for archive. I have a lot of hard drives, especially for tv shows and whatnot on plex. But I need one good hard drive to move stuff to once I'm done editing on ssd. I also need to get a dedicated internal ssd for editing. This is made harder by how many games want an ssd

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  26. We just came back from a 4-month trip and shot 5-TB of video files and have been searching for the best way to organize all of our assets, this is exactly what we needed. THANK YOU.

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  32. A common dilemma that editors deal with is whether or not to copy the entire file structure that the camera records on the SD card onto the system/external drive, since copying ONLY the .mp4 (without the rest: PRIVATE, AVCHD, etc.) sometimes leads to problems with audio sync, etc. Any thoughts? If you want to preserve that root structure of technical folders, it is impossible to parse-out different kinds of content to multiple destination folders/drives. It leads to a workflow where you shoot only one kind of content (an event, for ex.) on an SD card, which requires a level of discipline which many of us don't possess!

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  33. What ends up happening is my phone memory gets full and I have no memory to finalize my project, so I back up my videos to my computer to create space on my phone because that's where I edit, then when I need a video that's been backed up to my computer, I run into trouble because I need it back on my phone again. It's gotten out of hand and I just need some good advice as to how to organize and easily access video files while simultaneously keeping my phone's memory free enough to work. So a 10 minute video might need segments and excerpts of other videos edited in, in an effort to complete the video. It's a real challenge. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated 🙏

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  35. Oh my goodness, this is exactly what I need help with. I've been recording videos on my phone(s) and have such a hard time keeping them all accessable when needed.

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