It’s important to catalog our published media so that they are properly organized, easy to find later, and able to be backed up. The Media folder contains directories for each year. Your media should be saved inside the directory corresponding to the year it was published. A folder should be created for each event/date with the following naming convention.
yymmdd description i.e... 151008 Chapel
That way each entry will be sorted by date and easy to find later. Further the description helps for search-ability.
The location for our published media is:
\\heritagecollege.local\public\media
A rough process for publishing media files is as follows…
1. Production - i.e. Capturing audio and video.
2. Save RAW footage to external USB hard disk.
3. Copy RAW footage to internal drive for editing.
4. Editing - compile final cut using an DAW (audio) or NLE (video).
5. Save the completed work to the Media folder.
6. Publish the media to Moodle or other web location.
Relevant Links
Get Organized: How to Manage Video Files
For editors, how do you keep track of/organize all of your raw video footage?