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Postby Wicked » Fri Mar 14, 2003 11:04 am

How do some of you organize your vob, d2v, ppj, and avs files on your hard drive. I just made a directory and then dumped them all in there, but my experince with web design says I have to be a more o rganized than this! Also, what is an IFO file?
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Postby trythil » Fri Mar 14, 2003 11:24 am

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trythil@lothlann trythil $ cd /media/movies/amv-resources/eoe-amv/
trythil@lothlann eoe-amv $ ls -w 80
6671.wav           VTS01A.toc      divx4.log                   preview.mpa
Alleluias.wav      VTS02A.toc      doorclose.avi               preview.mpg
DEATH_REBIRTH      VTS03A.toc      doorclose.mov               preview.wav
EVA01              VTS04A.toc      eoe.xml                     preview2.mov
EVA02              VTS05A.toc      eoe23976-2.xml              preview4.m1v
EVA03              VTS06A.toc      eoe23976-soundedit-cut.xml  preview4.mov
EVA04              VTS07A.toc      eoe23976-soundonly-2.xml    preview_lzo.avi
EVA05              VTS08A.toc      eoe23976-soundonly.xml      record.mov
EVA06              VTS09A.toc      eoe23976.xml                stills
EVA07              VTS10A.toc      lipsync-data                test1.xml
EVA08              VTS11A.toc      pieces                      tests
PREVIEW2.mpg       VTS12A.toc      preview.avi                 track03_edit.wav
VIDEO_TS.VOB       VTS13A.toc      preview.mov                 vob
VIDEO_TS_TEST.toc  c:\trace_b.txt  preview.mp2

trythil@lothlann eoe-amv $ ls -F1 | egrep '.*\/'
DEATH_REBIRTH/
EVA01/
EVA02/
EVA03/
EVA04/
EVA05/
EVA06/
EVA07/
EVA08/
lipsync-data/
pieces/
stills/
tests/
vob/


So, basically, I store index files for MPEG-2 streams in seperate directories (with the exception of the EOE DVD, which was just my fault), prerendered pieces and their project files in another directory (pieces), stills and composited scenes in stills, and all the actual VOBs go into, well, vob.

An IFO basically contains information about a movie that is passed to the DVD player. For example, they contain information about locations of audio tracks, chapter stops, menu data, and so forth.

Thomas Mirlacher reverse-engineered most of the IFO file format; do a Google search on his name or stop by www.linuxvideo.org (a really dated site, but still has some neat stuff) and search the code repositories if you're interested in the internal workings of the thing.
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Postby Wicked » Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:25 pm

Cool, I came up with a smiliar approach. I have a directory on my c:\ named for the video, and then all of the assets in subdirectories:

c:\AMV\crazy_vision\
\vobs\
\d2v_projects\
\avs_files\
\audio\

So far it seems to be working ok, but then ofcourse I just started!
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:18 pm

C:\<animename>\
\Disk 1
\Disk 2
(etc for disks)
\Projects
\MJPEGs


C:\AMV\<project here>
\<folder made from premiere with preview files>

C:\<final render>.avi
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Postby Corran » Fri Mar 14, 2003 3:31 pm

Starting from C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Project 'number'\

I have:
AVS Sources\
(where I keep my scripts)

AVI Sources\
(I keep my MJPEG sources here)

Music\
(Keep audio files here)

Titles\
(I keep lossless copies of my intro and ending bumpers here)

Hidden\
(I move the AVI Sources folder here when switching in my avs scripts)

Source\
(Images and .dvp files here)

Source\DVD'number'\
(I keep my .Vobs to their individual dvds here)

I find editing like this rather convenient. I keep my premeire project files in my root project folder.
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Postby iserlohn » Fri Mar 14, 2003 4:45 pm

I keep a folder on Orion (my editing drive) with a name for the project (usually the anime or song name + video).

Then I keep the first round of source pulling, the audio, the ppj, and any additional titles in that folder. Every time I need to grab more source I create a sub-folder on the HD and a new Bin in premiere so that I can keep track of what's been imported and what hasn't. Makes keeping track of clips easy because there's 30 at most in any bin and they're all nicely named so I know what I'm importing.

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Postby The Wired Knight » Fri Mar 14, 2003 5:23 pm

I have a seperate hard drive, my D drive, built entirely for all the captured AVIs. They all stay in a folder called "captured footage" and are divided by series.

Working projects and beta videos go in a sepearte folder called "Working videos" with a seperate folder inside called "beta"

All completed projects either go in the "Wired Knight Productions" folder for my smaller Mpegs and AVIs for video distribution while full quality avis for cons go in a "con" folder.
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Postby burntoast » Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:59 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:I have a seperate hard drive, my D drive

i have a D drive too, and i didn't find out about it until late last year.. back when i didn't know jack about computers.. :roll:

my D drive has 61.3 GB, compared to my C drive, which only has 14.9 GBs. my D:/ directory is mostly.. well, i make a folder named DVD Rips, and then i make more folders consisting of anime titles, which is where my vobs are located. i have a seperate avs file folder for some reason.. i like to be organized like some of ya. :)

my video files, audio source, and other misc. stuff are also put into their own category of folders.. i'd like to see someone who can work with everything on their drive(s) in their main directory. :twisted: would that work??!
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Postby Stoic » Fri Mar 14, 2003 11:02 pm

I have a folder for my MPEG2 files / AC3 Files

I have a Radio Folder, which is almost all of my CDs ripped to MP3 (192 KBPS I know kind of over doing it but I don't give a damn).

So it's like this

/{Insert Name of Anime}/

That's where all my MPEG2 and AC3s are

And

/Radio/{Artist}/{Album}/

That's where my music MP3s are.

I keep my apps and media files on different Hard Drives.
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Postby Leanan » Sat Mar 15, 2003 12:41 am

I just bought a new 120 gig hd so I'm going to use that for editing only. I basically have a folder for each vid and in it I have several folders: Projects (for dvd2avi files, avs files, etc.), BMPS (any bmps I make, lol), and folders for each dvd that I rip with clips inside. This video in particular takes scenes from 10 disks, so I didn't really want to keep the vobs. Clips came in much handier.
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