The Best FOLDER STRUCTURE for Video Editing (Premiere Pro & Others)

Sometimes it helps just to get a peak at how other people do mundane things. That's what I'm hoping to give you here!

In this video, I'll show you the best folder structure for video editing to help you get your video production file management under control during post production. It's hard to know how to manage files when video editing or how to pick a folder structure for video, but with these folder structure best practices you'll take your video post production to a whole new level. This really is the best way to organize video files and projects.

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[plannetangel]

In the short amount of time since I’ve subscribed to your channel, I’ve genuinely enjoyed learning from what you offer to teach, thank you for being straight to the point and not being boring

[lowlowseesee]

this helped me tremendous. my second phase of organization. i was lost before this vid and after watching it ONCE I was at peace and super organized and also finished some projects for my first potential client. much thanks, SUBBED!

[harrisongould]

Some how I found you...file organization is like a 'club'. If you're not organized, you've lost your compass while flying and that ain't good. It's my first day with Premier Pro and I'm just shy of 70. As for photography...I started in the 70's. A nice circle I'd say. Thanks for the video...I do the same with my Lightroom jobs...everything is in the same 'organized' folder.

[TheHiFiMechanik]

Hi James, I've just started my first Youtube channel (quite my job to go full time). and discovered my file management was all wrong! So I created a better file structure for all my future projects...you just saved me hours of time! Thanks sooo much for this valuable tutorial😃 Cheers Grant

[davidbaileyrealtor]

Great explanation of how you store your files. I've been trying to figure out a way to keep things organized so I can work on them on my computer and still be able to move them to an external hard drive when completed to free up space. This will definitely keep me from losing files when they are getting moved. As a newbie video editor in premiere pro, my next question after storing files would be how do you color-code or organize the sequence to keep all the files organized? And I have seen pro editors creating sequences inside of sequences that I haven't figured out how to do yet.

[Aj_Bamf]

First time in a while I've thought to myself "Wow that was incredible, I should check out this guy's other stuff."

[SlackerStuff]

Love organizing by that date convention. Makes it super helpful.

[RandumbTech]

You are speaking my language! I am so tired of having missing files in my projects because I was too lazy to save the media in the right spot. Thx for the quick tutorial!

[fernandoperedia]

Well explained and straight to the point. Thank you

[clarkcunningham]

This is premium content. Concise and descriptive. Subbed

[kissmelissakiss]

nice! thank you for sharing that! so simple and smart and just what I needed to start my video creation, organized from the start!

[nextlevelcraig]

I thought I was doing well with my organization. Then you hit me with ISO 8601, damn it! That really makes a lot of sense. I guess I know what I am doing today LOL.

[joyoffilming]

Great video. I am doing exactly the same for my stills and to some extend for videoos, too. Only thing I need to apply for Davinvi Resolve is to create that project file and add it to the folder.

[EGInspection]

Adobe generates additional files once the project is initiated. Other than the *.prproj file, where do you store the additional files (previews, autosaves, etc) during production, and then after completion of the project it looks like you delete them all.
Great video, thank you.

[westfield]

Question if I use a same background video loop in all of my projects which is about a 1GB. Copying that file into every project will eat up so much of my hard disk space. So what do you do about that scenario?

[randyrektor]

My biggest takeaway is exporting tiffs for thumbs. I don't know why I've never thought to change it to Tiff over jpeg. Adding that one to the bucket. Thanks!

[erbartlett]

I've got a good system for projects, but I use a lot of footage from previous projects when working on new ones. Any tips for how to organize a huge amount of projects and all that footage for use as b-roll in future projects? I spend a ton of time looking through old projects to find a shot to use.

[pradrev]

Where do you store the processing files that are created by the editing software?

[mowenurbano]

is it sorted by name and in the ascending order?

[SpicyMelons.]

I'm starting to dip my toes into editing and my assets are scattered across multiple hard drives. This was helpful, thank you for sharing 🙏