Can we create a standard folder naming structure?

[Shawn Nelson]

Standards are good, especially open standards. They make work easy from project to project.

I am wondering we, as a community, could standardize on the naming scheme and folder structure for Red field offloading? This way any projects that conformed would all look the same.

For instance, here is my folder structure

[Project]_RawFootage
|-Day_01_[Month][Day]
|--[Mag]
|--[Mag]...

And so forth, though tonight in talking with another DIT I thought it might be good to introduce different sub-folders for different project settings. Such as,

[Project]_RawFootage
|-4k2-1_23-98_R28
|--Day_01_[Month][Day]
|---[Mag]
|---[Mag]...

And I'd be open to tons of feedback to hammer out the best, most straight-forward folder structure, then we could make a PDF, sticky it here and refer people to it. That way projects make sense, 1st units match 2nd units and so forth.

Thoughts? Let's not all try to reinvent the wheel. Community-driven standards make life better for all! :-)

[Dylan Reeve]

Shawn,

We'll be developing a folder structure for the SolidStore, we'll be more than happy to work with a wider community to develop this (we'll be getting in to this part of the development in the next couple of weeks I hope - prototypes aren't far off now)

Some points about our observations and needs...

- Our structure will be extended to support other systems as well (XDCAM EX and P2 at least) so has to be flexible for that. Although we have adopt slightly different structures for each format.

- In cases of duplicate reels, it's important that automated copying won't overwrite exiting magazine data.

With that in mind we'd probably have something like:

[Project]
|-Footage
|--[Download Timestamp]
|---[Magazine ID]
|--[Download Timestamp]
|---[Magazine ID]
(contd...)

The SolidStore will also store a footage database in the Project directory.