How To Edit Faster By Organizing Your Assets
This post is for my boy @Mateusz Kwiatkowski. He asked me to make a post about organizing your assets since he just got a new SSD so here it is. If you guys also have questions or anything you want specific help on, feel free to comment them below or DM me! Here’s how I organize my editing assets to stay fast and efficient when working on projects. First, I organize all my folders in my SSD by client. For me, I have one folder on my SSD for the Ireland Boys, since I edit for them full-time. Inside their folder, I keep two things: A folder of the current projects I’m working on and an assets folder. I move all their past project folders to a hard drive to free up storage on my SSD (but more on that later...) The assets folder is where all the important stuff lives. Inside the assets folder, I recommend you break things down into four main categories: Videos, Music, Pictures/PNGs, and Sound Effects, and that's how mine are set up. 99% of the time you will need these 4 folders for every client, but some of the time too you will also need a few more that are specific to the client's videos. For example, I also have a "Faces" folder where it's just PNG cutouts of the Ireland Boys' faces since they commonly have their faces in the corner of the screen when doing challenges, but not every client needs a "Faces" folder lmao. But let’s start with the Videos folder. I organize the Ireland Boy's "Videos" folder with two subfolders for their two brands, "1Life" and "IBPMerch." Inside those two folders are different video assets they use to promote their brands. Everything else, like memes, green-screen effects, overlays, and other YouTube videos I use often, just lives all bunched up in the videos folder. Next is the Music folder, and I spend a lot of time organizing this one. When I download music from Artlist.io or Epidemic Sound, I make sure to sort it by either genre or emotion.