In today's video we're going to talk about naming your video clips.
Now you may be asking yourself,
Why do I need a whole video on how to name your video clips?
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It's always a really great idea,
just for organizational purposes
to be thoughtful about how you name your clips.
But it's super important
if you have somebody working with you on your team.
Like a video editor,
virtual assistant,
or even a website designer.
Naming any of your files can be really important at that point in time.
I'm going to mention a couple methods,
But I'm going to focus mainly on people that are creating courses.
Now if you're creating courses and you have two hours worth of video,
and you record it all in one shot,
There's no problem there because all your video is in one video.
But if you're like most people,
You've taken the time to record several different video clips.
I'm using these clips here as an example. These are not actual course clips.
Now for a course it's really easy
let's say this one here
we want to name this
Let's say we name this first one module one.
And then this next one here module two.
And so on and so on.
That way when you send these off to your video editor
or if they have access to your Dropbox or wherever
They can see exactly which module each video goes with.
And you'll want to do this also with anything else that's going to go in that video.
Say with module one, I have some graphics that I want thrown in there.
I would take and name those graphics module one graphics.
Module two graphics
If I had b-roll that I wanted to go with module three, but it didn't go with module one or module two,
I would name it module 3 b-roll.
Let's say we name the first one module
One
Graphic One.
That's the first graphic that's gonna go in module one.
Module One
Graphic Two
And that's the second graphic that's going to go in there.
Module one
B-roll
Now when your video editor gets a folder from you and it's got all the stuff in it,
that right there tells them where everything goes.
If you're doing more than one course at a time,
or more than one project at a time,
then you may have to change things up a bit.
I'll go ahead and show you the really complex version of this.
And this is if you're doing a big project like a movie.
Or some massive undertaking.
You would do the shoot date.
You would do the shoot date
And then you would do the Project ID
The subject name
The shoot
The camera number
The audio
And the clip number
If you were doing a full-on movie you would need all this.
Now, let me give you some examples on how you can use this formula in yours.
You're always going to want to put the year first this helps keep them in order.
We don't usually do this in the United States. We usually put the year at the end.
But you're going to put the date first today is
2019
It's January and it's 21st.
And that right there would be the very first thing in your file name.
Now let's look at product ID.
When would you need to put in a project ID? a project ID is if you've got more than one thing going.
Say you have a class on meditation. We're going to call it
my meditation class
so, my meditation class
so my project ID is MMC
That tells me that everything that has an MMC goes with my meditation class.
Now say I'm doing another class on organizing.
okay organize your home
Organize your home
So anything that has MMC goes with
this class and anything that has this OYH goes with the other class.
And that's only if you have several big projects going at once.
But most of the people I work with are only going to be working on one course at a time.
So this probably isn't going to be necessary for you.
But if you do have other projects going on, maybe not a course,
maybe you're working on something else that's not related to your course.
That would be when you would want to use a project ID.
Subject Name
A subject name is something that you give it
that distinctly stands out.
Say in your meditation class. Let's go with that same theme there.
Say in your meditation class you have a graphic that shows the different kinds of singing bowls.
So you could put
Singing bowl graphic
That identifies what that is.
Maybe it's a singing bowl video. So you want to put video.
So the subject is just the name of basically what it is that is in this file or this clip.
Next we go to Shoot
Again, unless you're working on a really big project does is probably not going to be necessary.
This is where you would put in if it is a screen share.
Maybe you have one video that has a screen share that needs to overlay with that video.
So that could be the screen share.
Maybe it is an interview.
So either of those would work for this.
Maybe the outside.
Maybe it was an outside shoot
You would want to put that in your name if you have several different clips that come from different areas.
Maybe part of your little video was shot inside and part was shot outside.
You're going to want to identify this was the outside shoot.
This was the inside shoot. That all goes together.
The next one is
Camera Number
If you're only using one camera again, this does not apply to you.
But if you're using more than one camera because you want to get different views,
Maybe you have a camera off to the side,
and maybe you have a wide camera and a close-up camera.
You're gonna want to put this in here.
If you've already named your camera camera one, camera two, super simple.
If you didn't you might want to do camera close,
Camera Left Side
But if you've taken the time to have several different cameras setup,
you've probably already named them so you can call it camera one
camera two
And the next one on here is the audio clip
If you have more than one audio input,
say your interview was done with a lav mic.
You can put in lav.
Blue Yeti microphone you can put in blue
That way you keep that audio stream named separately from the audio collected with your lav mic.
And the clip number
Say you've had to do several takes
You could do
take 1,
take 2, take 3
Or maybe it's all one thing but you had to clip it into several parts.
So it's just
clip 1
clip 2
And if you're really snazzy )01
002
25 that's a lot of clips. Actually it would be 025.
025 That's a lot of clips.
But you kind of get the idea here.
And the reason you do this is because if you're working on this project with more than one person,
this makes it easier for them to identify.
Like I said, most of you will not need something of this caliber.
Something quite this outstanding.
Most of you will be able to go with something like this. Module one graphic one.
Module one graphic 2.
Module one b-roll
Module one video
Module one screen share.
This right here gives your
Gives your stuff a proper name so that the person helping you working on it,
knows what they're looking at.
That way when they open up this huge file
and usually there's going to be a whole lot more than this in there
they will be able to easily figure out what it is
and there'll be an order by name module 1 module 2 module 3.
And if it's done by date, they will be an order by date.
This is a great way to help with your organization and your productivity.
And we all know one of the best ways to save time is to be organized to start with.
So by taking five minutes out to name your files
To name your files properly before you send them over to your editor
or virtual assistant or hand them off to your husband or wife or whoever is helping you
By going ahead and having it all organized
They will have an easier time finding what they need.
You'll have an easier time finding what you need.
If you've already taken the time to write up your class in advance, which you should,
then you probably already have most of this listed
in an excel doc,
in a Trello board or somewhere else
so that you can easily keep track
and know what you've got done, what you're missing
and what you need to get over to your editor.
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