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I had enjoyed photography since childhood but avoided videos, mostly because of storage and management issues. A few years back I switched primarily to videogra

I had enjoyed photography since childhood but avoided videos, mostly because of storage and management issues. A few years back I switched primarily to videography. It was mostly when my first child was born. Now I love videos so much, I only wish I had started serious videography long time ago. The main issue now with videos is that I might record a lot of boring raw footage. Some of this boring raw footage, actually, has a lot of nostalgic value when viewed a few years later. But I also edit videos and create shorter videos that are more fun to watch. I do most of video editing on iPad because it is simple. The storage seems cheap enough, I use Apple Cloud and local NAS backup. One thing I am bad at is organization of videos. But I am really hoping that in next few years ML/AI will handle this part. It is already pretty good but not as good as it is for photos.

mikewarot 5y ago
In retrospect, you'll find your child has many different faces, each a few months apart, as they grow up. As for organization, here's my structure. I never let anything else manage it, and that gives me piece of mind. I keep photos\videos source files sorted by the yyyy\yyyymmdd, and to never edit the original file, always save to a new name first before making modifications. You need to manage this structure yourself. Here's a handy python script to make folders, tweak for your own use import datetime,os # this program has a very limited purpose # # it creates a folder of the form d:\photos\source\yyyy\yyyymmdd # then it opens the folder in Windows Explorer, to aid the transfer of photos # # May 16, 2007 - Mike Warot # December 3, 2007 - Moved to D:\photos\source... # thisdate = datetime.date.today() # get the current system date and make the appropriate folder name foldername = "c:\photos\source\%04d\%04d%02d%02d" % (thisdate.year,thisdate.year,thisdate.month,thisdate.day) try: os.makedirs(foldername) # recursively creates the folder all the way down (so it works when there is a new year) except WindowsError as e: # unless something goes wrong, of course print (e.strerror) if e.winerror != 183: # avoid error #183, which is almost always the directory already existing input() # if it's something else, force the user to see it in the dos box os.system("explorer "+foldername) # now open explorer, and enjoy 8) If you can remember when you did something, it makes it much easier to find it. I don't trust metadata to do this for me, it gets lost! I keep my ~400,000 source files (~700 Gb, mostly Jpegs) in nested folders.
- amerkhalid 5y ago
  I am using Apple Photos. It handles all that. I used to use Lightroom and that allowed me to organize photos in any way on file system and I had similar setup. I really want to move to Linux but lack of a few key applications makes it hard for me.

mikewarot 5y ago

In retrospect, you'll find your child has many different faces, each a few months apart, as they grow up. As for organization, here's my structure. I never let anything else manage it, and that gives me piece of mind. I keep photos\videos source files sorted by the yyyy\yyyymmdd, and to never edit the original file, always save to a new name first before making modifications. You need to manage this structure yourself. Here's a handy python script to make folders, tweak for your own use import datetime,os # this program has a very limited purpose # # it creates a folder of the form d:\photos\source\yyyy\yyyymmdd # then it opens the folder in Windows Explorer, to aid the transfer of photos # # May 16, 2007 - Mike Warot # December 3, 2007 - Moved to D:\photos\source... # thisdate = datetime.date.today() # get the current system date and make the appropriate folder name foldername = "c:\photos\source\%04d\%04d%02d%02d" % (thisdate.year,thisdate.year,thisdate.month,thisdate.day) try: os.makedirs(foldername) # recursively creates the folder all the way down (so it works when there is a new year) except WindowsError as e: # unless something goes wrong, of course print (e.strerror) if e.winerror != 183: # avoid error #183, which is almost always the directory already existing input() # if it's something else, force the user to see it in the dos box os.system("explorer "+foldername) # now open explorer, and enjoy 8) If you can remember when you did something, it makes it much easier to find it. I don't trust metadata to do this for me, it gets lost! I keep my ~400,000 source files (~700 Gb, mostly Jpegs) in nested folders.

amerkhalid 5y ago
I am using Apple Photos. It handles all that. I used to use Lightroom and that allowed me to organize photos in any way on file system and I had similar setup. I really want to move to Linux but lack of a few key applications makes it hard for me.