How do you guys organize your AMVs?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:41 am

Same answer as last time:

C:/AMV/Series/Series - Year - Studio - Editor - Title.filetype

Folders also exist for Various and Vidding.

The only editors who have ever recieved their own folders, and do not have them now are: Koopiskeva, Rozard, MexicanJunior, and Mindwarp.

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:28 am

By how I see them.

Comedy, Dance, Romance, non Dance

Otherwise, when I feel like something based on the mood I'm in, it's too much hassle to find something relevant.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:41 am

I actually just sort them by the series they use. To cover multi-anime vids, I have a folder labeled "Various." I name the video files with the title of the video followed by the name of the song used, unless there's more than one song (MEPs mostly), in which case I just leave that part off.

Ijexis · Post by **Ijexis** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:46 am

I have two folders, "a-m-v.org" and "Other Editor's Works" Everything from the org that I like goes in the former and when I get sent betas or randomness I stuff them in the latter.

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:33 pm

Same response as the last time this thread popped up...

Anime (if more than three, "Various") - Editor - Artist - Song

I don't keep the original title of the video unless it's a MEP or a similar type of video that uses many editors, artists, or songs.

I have a Permanent Collection folder and a folder outside of that for ones I'm still watching and haven't made a judgment call on yet.

When I feel myself running out of room, I don't burn AMVs to DVD. I just... get a bigger harddrive. >_> Since this is advantageous to editing anyway, I figure it's the best option for me.

- Jen

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:33 pm

If I like the editor a lot and has done at least a few videos I like, then they get their own folder. Other than that, I organize by type.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:34 pm

Oh yeah, forgot some anime get their own folder too.

Phantasmagoriat · Post by **Phantasmagoriat** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:59 pm

I'm pretty proud of the way I do it.

I currently have them all in one mass folder using the following naming convention:
Creator - Title - Artist - Song - Anime.ext [MEPs have "MEP," put at the beginning]

Then I have various folders according to the star rating I gave them:
5 - if I liked it and will watch it often
4 - if there's a chance I'll watch it again
3 - if it was done decently, but I'm unlikely to re-watch it
2-1 - I'm just keeping for archival reasons

Other folders include:
Live Action
Don't Watch Yet [uses anime/music that I'm not done watching/listening to]
Queue [I'll watch them eventually when I have the time]
Trailers; Lip Sync [they're not the same, but close enough for one folder :O]
Mainstream [stuff that I might show other people, but would never watch myself]
VCAs
Conventions [Japan Expo was pretty easy to dl using a download manager...]

Within each of these folders I have Shortcuts* that link to the real files in my main library folder. This is good since it gives at least two methods of browsing... but the fun part is this:

Because of the naming scheme, I have figured out a way to print a list of my amv filepaths to an .xls file and sort them in Excel under any of the fields in the file name, including the extension. Then, if I'm browsing them in Excel, and see something I like, I can just open the amv using the filepath as a link.

recently, I've made a template of these folders, so that I can do all of the above, but split by Year. In the end, I want to make my system more customizable, but with the filename scheme in place, it shouldn't be too hard.

*actually, I don't use real Shortcuts, I use .bat files that take advantage of the "call" function... but it's the same idea...

xexyzl · Post by **xexyzl** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:33 pm

Phantasmagoriat wrote: Because of the naming scheme, I have figured out a way to print a list of my amv filepaths to an .xls file and sort them in Excel under any of the fields in the file name, including the extension. Then, if I'm browsing them in Excel, and see something I like, I can just open the amv using the filepath as a link.

This may in fact be the only time I've ever seen AMVs mentioned alongside Excel, save for perhaps AMV Hell 3.

Nessephanie · Post by **Nessephanie** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:47 pm

DOKTOP KPbI/\OB wrote:I don't :uhoh:

x2.

If I like a video enough to keep it, it gets dropped into my AMV's folder. The name is whatever the creator named it. *shrugs*