Ask HN: Video Creators, how do you organize your stock footage?
I am looking for ideas and naming/tagging conventions for organizing stock footage the can be reused. As you know, stock footage is beneficial to filmmakers as it saves shooting new material.
Example - Starting with something basic, such as creating a folder where you essentially dump, say, every piece of video footage that involves 'writing' can be a good start.
Then narrow it down and creating substructures such as: - writing on the computer - writing with a pen - writing with a pencil etc.
It could also be nice if you have some ideas on some software one can use to quickly do a keyword search and get a link/path to the desired clip inside your folders.
Apply and expand this for various types of footage can be a huge time saver.
How do you organize your files? Are you using any software to tag/find?
Thank you!