Media catalog

[near]

I think it would be really useful a feature for organizing the clips. Some kind of tagging system.

Imagine... I have 40000 loops, and I say "quickly, I need loops featuring airports, planes and people travelling"
I enter the tags "plane" "transportation" "airport", and the results appear, like in Garageband, or like in del.icio.us, or any piece of software that uses tags.

[Rene]

hey near,

that's a good idea. I would also love to have such a tagging system - but it should be an open standard, to ensure compatibility to other vj/editing software.

how do you organize your clips at the moment? - Recently I've had a discussion with other vj's what's the best way to keep footage organized and to get instant access if you need a special clip.

prepairing decks is fine, but you loose some flexibility for live performances... and if you group them just in folders how do you name/tag the folders? using feelings, emotions, (adjectives) instead of nouns? Best practice?

[VJair]

yeah, this could be a nice feature.

personaly, i use clips i have made myself, so i know them all pretty well and have them grouped in folders according to the ( rough ) role that they perform.... background, foreground, feature, objects ect.

[near]

For folders I use a very basic (and random) hierarchy. Things like:

backgrounds
colorful
simple

people
dancing
walking
runnning
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And for file names, a brief descriptive name, plus the resolution.

But I don't like messing with folder and file names. IMHO, is better to have some sort of loops database , like on Garageband, or iTunes.

[alphasuede]

One option is attaching meta-data to your files.

The Macintosh operating system has a nice way of adding meta-data tags to files. and search for these tags using the finder. It also has a way of coloring files. On the PC i would look at Adobe bridge.

[NickScale]

Old thread, but +1 for tags and media library

[LXConcepts]

I categorize all my media in labeled folders based on their content....

so i have everything from static backgrounds, to client logos, to almost everything imaginable

mind you, a lot of my shows involve custom content, so I typically have a folder per client as well

[Joris]

everything imaginable

[LXConcepts]

everything imaginable

my primary server has 300gb of non-custom content, my storage server is sporting 4 1tb hard drives full of content...

if I don't have it, it likely doesn't exist yet

[Joris]

I don't know man, I can imagine some pretty weird stuff