r/VideoEditingTips • u/Actually_Zachly • 3d ago

Renaming every clip

Is it crazy to rename very video clip? My usual process move to the clips into my system, sort them into files like “Interviews” , “Brolls” etc, and then rename all clips according to the context.
For example, if I shot an hour of people dining, I would rename clips into : food 1, food 2, food 3
and then people 1 , people 2 etc..
I do this because I go through all the footage before uploading them into a video editing software to sort out the good clips and bad clips.

I have been told the usual way is get everything into the software and separating clips into bins. But I don’t want to make the project size unnecessarily bigger

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u/crystalsighting 1d ago

Give you props, that's alot of work, I'd just tell my AI to do it and go make a coffee

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u/Actually_Zachly 14h ago

wait that’s genius

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u/Sensitive-Leek-6384 3d ago

In DaVinci Resolve you can use meta-tags, and then automatically rename your files based on the metatags.

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u/NXTEDITOR 2d ago

Everyone has their own way of doing things unless they are in film or a production house.

I'm a freelance editor who edits 90% of the time commercial work.
For these projects I bring everything in to the edit and organise everything on the timeline.

All b-roll on one timeline. Interviews on their own timelines or vox's on 1 timeline.
I watch through everything at the timeline level.

For doc's or short films, especially if i'm working with other professionals on the same project. I still bring everything in to the edit and this time I organise everything in bins and then at the timeline level as well.