How To Properly Organize Your Files When You Are Video Editing: A Step-by-Step Guide

Looking to start organizing and optimizing your video editing workflow? Whether you use Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve, or even Sony Vegas Pro, you will need a proper file structure to increase your efficiency as a video editor, as well as increase the performance of your workstation!

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📚Chapters:
0:00 How to Properly Organize Your Files When You are Video Editing
0:41 Mistakes To Avoid BEFORE You Start Video Editing
1:27 Proper Video Editing Workstation Setup
3:06 Folder Structure To Organize Your Video Projects
6:22 Video Editing Organization in Action
8:36 Real-Life Example of Folder Structure for Video Editing in Action

About this video: In this video, Cesar Santos breaks down for you the best folder structure for video project. He also shows you how to best optimize your workstation to increase the performance of your computer or laptop.

[TheJimbojetset]

you missed the part for beginner's so i wont be subbing

[monkey_o]

Thank you so much for this in-depth video! I'm always super intimidated when it comes to optimising my save files and workfiles but waht you've shown is super intuitive and clean! Awesome stuff, keep it up!

[Fruitsniffer]

Thanks for the video! I only recently started getting back into YouTube and started creating Shorts so this is a very nice guideline to get me started. I'll probably dumb it down even further and skip out on some of the folders I don't find necessary but this is definitely a good starting point for me. <3

[PatIreland]

Very helpful, great ideas! Thanks Seez!

[AtlantaFlamencoPro]

I recommend to switch windows theme to dark so you don't have white contrasting areas interfere with your editing and tiring your eyes. I keep everything in black including chrome and web pages. My eyes get much less tired.

[notz]

So i work off my macbook pro and my windows desktop at home, and I also have dropbox and multiple SSDs. How do you recommend keeping organization between all these platforms?

[AntHumbl]

Hey, very interesting video, thank you for the tips! Just wondering, you managed to replicate your folder structure into bins in the project file at 8:37 - how did you do that? I can't seem to do it. Thanks again!

[yosachaiko]

I have 1TB SSD and 1TB HDD. I'm new to editing and making YT gaming videos. This is my personal and only computer.
Davinci resolve playback is stuttery and I heard keeping the SSD less full of whatever helps programs like Davinci run better.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what should be stored on the SSD and HDD. I currently just have everything on the SSD. 340GB free of 932GB.
Also, you mentioned keeping the video you're working with on the fastest drive. So that'd be my SSD?
If I needed to work on a video that was on my HDD, how do I move it to the SSD?
Would I just copy or move it or is there more to it? I record with OBS. Should I set it to put recordings on the HDD?