AMV orginization

[Inaaca]

I have one big folder called "AMV Archive v2.0". Under that I have AMVs separated into six folders by genre as follows.

"Action/Adventure/Horror"
"Comedy/Fun/Dance/Uplifting"
"Drama/Romance/Serious"
"Parody/Joke/Story" (Generally footage to audio that I don't consider music goes here, like trailer parodys, or storys like "The Quest for Dokinium")
"Projects/Compilations" (Basically things like MEPs, or other odd compilations are here)
and "My Videos"

Under each of these folders I have a separate folder for each anime that the AMVs are to, and AMVs that have two or more anime in the same video go into a folder called "various."

I also label each video file by anime, video title, song/artist, and creator, and I mark the ones I consider favorites.

So yeah, I organized it pretty thoroughly. My collection got too big and I needed to categorize the videos to effectively find specific ones anymore.

[Radical_Yue]

If it's not directly on my desktop, then it's just randomly in my external.

Those of course are just waiting to be uploaded to ipodness. I don't keep AMVs unless I really really like them. I'm very picky.

[-Nfp]

My Documents>Anime!>Finished Movies>then all my finished projects, which includes Full amv's[not much lol] and MEP tracks..

[BasharOfTheAges]

AMVs
--->Collection
--->MEPs
--->Unviewed (where I put stuff I download until I decide what to do with it)
--->Betas

That's about it. I don't give out 4s and 5s that often, but that's all I tend to keep. Needless to say, the folder isn't that big - around 30GB last I checked.

[CodeZTM]

Oh, I totally forgot. I have about 10 GB of AMV's compressed into my Ipod. Thank God I have a 60 GB Ipod.

[-Nfp]

Oh, I totally forgot. I have about 10 GB of AMV's compressed into my Ipod. Thank God I have a 60 GB Ipod.

Holy Shizzles , that's almost as much space as my portable HD >.<

[Kionon]

AMVs\Series (or Various or Betas)\Series-Year-Creator\Studio-Title.container

Example might be:

AMVs\Beyond the Clouds\Beyond The Clouds - 2005 - Koopiskeva - Waking Hour.avi

[NS]

I Have the 30 GB ipod

But my Comp in minnesota only has 60GB of Memory... It's bad, I'm always barely having enough.

[Scintilla]

I organize by year released, that's it.

Actually, no, I have another directory solely for the videos that came out of the 7.53 Seconds AMV Contest.

[Corran]

Folder structure for AMVs:

F: (500GB Raid 1 array)
. . . . . - Videos
. . . . . . . . . . - AMVs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - 01. Best AMVs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - 02. Good AMVs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - 03. Decent AMVs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Beta AMVs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Classic and hard to find AMVs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Misc AMVs (stuff like 'making of' videos or alternative versions of existing videos)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Multieditor Projects
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Totally Wrong AMVs (Hentai or 'just plain wrong!' videos)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Traileresque AMVs (Trailers or dub-overs)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Unsorted AMVs (Recently downloaded)


One day I finally got fed up with how disorganized my computer was so I went and reorganized all my videos, audio, photos, documents, and software. Prior to this, I never deleted the AMVs I downloaded. By the time I reorganized, I had 1500+ amvs on my computer in randomly named folders; it was difficult to figure out where my favorites were. I pretty much deleted my music folders and re-ripped my CDs so the structure would be consistent and also spent about 2 weeks watching/sorting amvs and deleted as many as 800 videos... It sucked... (180 GB of data now sorted) but now it is so convenient to have everything in a logical place.