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tbryant
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09/30/2008 9:05 AM  
I was wondering if anyone has any ideas about how to organize folders of videos. Do you do it by color? By theme? By creator?
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09/30/2008 10:02 AM  
We haven't done a good job of organizing our yet. We basically have the creator ones that come with SSP, then Abstract and Other Backgrounds.

Then I have Clips, Christmas and Easter.

...Joel

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09/30/2008 11:52 AM  
Mine are by theme, Easter, Christmas, Patriotic and so on.

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09/30/2008 12:29 PM  
You can adjust the colors in SSP, so there is no real need to sort that way.

The exception would be background improv, where you can't adjust the colors and if you want to improv from blue to blue, it might be helpful to sort that way.

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09/30/2008 1:37 PM  
<<<<< is confused (which is normal)

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09/30/2008 1:44 PM  
My first pass looked something like this (keep in mind we use SSP for everything in the service):

INCOMING

PRE-POST SERVICE
>Countdowns
>Backgrounds

WORSHIP
>Standard
>>Backgrounds
>Special
>Seasonal
>>Easter
>>Christmas

SERMON
>Backgrounds
>Clips
>>InHouse-Short Clip
>>Illustration-Movie Clip
>>Scripture

SPECIAL
>Baptism
>>Backgrounds
>>Clips
>Communion
>>Backgrounds
>>Clips
>Wedding
>>Backgrounds
>>Clips
>Funeral
>>Backgrounds
>>Clips

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09/30/2008 3:37 PM  
I don't have so many videos that I have to worry about organization, but, images, that a different story -- over 7000! I guess my preference would be to have folders for backgrounds, for example, and sub-folders for pre-service, worship, sermon, baptism, etc. You may, and probably do, have backgrounds which will work for more than one part of the service and those you could leave under the backgrounds directory and not in a sub-directory. You've probably figured out what works well for you. Good luck.

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03/01/2009 8:53 PM  

We have LOTS of Videos and Images...
I've organized them into one big Videos folder with some subfolders such as:

- Christmas - self explanatory
- Easter - again easy to explain
- Countdowns - so I don't accidentally play one as a motion background!
- FlexxSongs - which are a new and wonderful tool!
- Sermon - Any video clips that could be used as a sermon illustration
- GT - Our church name, so anythig we've made to show
- Movies - anything else that is played, such as clips from movies or tv shows.

All the rest are in alphabetical order in the main Videos folder.

To find them in there, I have gotten into the habit from the beginning of my work with SSP to name everything in a way that explains what is it.

So for example, a motion background video that is blue with some falling stars becomes "blue-starsfalling.mpg" OR "waves-crashingonshore.mpg" etc etc
That way if the colour is dominant, I can find all the blues or purples together, or if the main focus is waves or sunsets, they are all in order, too.

That my 3 cents!
~ Kirsten B.

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