Getting a bit lost in the sauce here when it comes to organizing a large batch of digitized home movies originally shot on tape (some originally digital, some analog).

The container format I'm working with is MKV, and I'm trying to determine what kinds of metadata tags I can add to these files that will be displayed in a meaningful way, and what method is best for achieving that. I know Matroska has a list of official tags...but lots of them aren't viewable in Windows Explorer. This is what I mean by "meaningful" - I want the tags to be easily seen. So far the only thing that works for sure is to use the "Comments" tag.

I have all the original source tapes numbered, and I'd definitely like to include that in the metadata, as well as a short description of the scene. In an ideal world I'd like to add more metadata tags- such as who's in it (Uncle Bob, etc.), the location (Grandma's House), among other things. But as far as I can tell, Windows doesn't support custom metadata tags.

Right now, I'm using MP3Tag to add comments, as doing it via VLC doesn't seem to work, and MKVToolNix GUI doesn't have a simple way to access the comments tag. My comments look like this "Little league baseball game, Bob's Birthday, Road Trip to Pennsylvania - Tape 37". The problem with long comments is that they're harder to access, as Windows Explorer doesn't display them on more than one line. Using VLC to look at comments works, I guess.

My question is, what do you do? What's the ideal way to organize and label these things on a file-level basis? Thanks.