how do you organize pictures / videos you shoot?

[NikGorn]

over time it can become a mess

so it's a good practice to have a good folder/file structure and procedure

especially for editing ...

especially for editing with other people ...

what structure and procedure do you recommend?

PS

what I do:

I have a folder p
inside of it each camera has a folder
inside each transfer gets a date attached with a description

this folder p gets backed up with all the data onto a separate drive to have a backup mirror

inside is also all the extra data ever used in editing - music, sounds, images, templates, etc ...
as well as saved adobe premier projects ... so that if this drive is damaged/lost/... nothing is lost

 

[francisw19]

I have a somewhat similar approach to you. I just keep a "Camera Raw" folder with a folder structure beneath - <Camera Name>/<Year>/<Event>/ It's simple and works well for what I do.

And then that drive gets backed up to my NAS regularly just in case.

 

[Rottie]

What is wrong with Adobe Lightroom? I think they are DAM or something like that? Sorry I am not PC guy anymore no I used Apple's Aperture software to take care of all of my pictures.

 

[imported_Irse]

I just do it by years. I use passwords in Windows and categories in ACDSee to separate them.

 

[IronWing]

Most of my photos are of places so I organize folders first by geography and then by date.

> Photos
>> Painted Desert
>>> 2016_05_14
>>> 2016_05_16
>> Chiricahua
>>> 2017_01_12
...

I use ThumbsPlus (version 7 is the last stable release) as an organizer.