Advice on organizing and storing video/photos from different devices/source

[needmesomevideohelp]

I'm pulling videos from 2 GoPro's, an iPhone and external sources. I'm having a hard time keeping track of them. Obviously, I use folders to keep track of regular files on my laptop, but for the videos from multiple sources that seems more challenging. If I add in a lot of data to file names and save them then the created date gets messed up.

I was hoping for something that would let me add metadata to the files, so that I can search them for how I've tagged them and let me manage all of the media.

I have Quik for the GoPro which works, but then there's the other footage which can't be imported and managed. How do people keep track of this? Any advice?

[kyrcy]

I simply store photos and videos in folders named with the date taken. Isn't this sufficient for your purpose? What makes things complicated?

[needmesomevideohelp]

I simply store photos and videos in folders named with the date taken. Isn't this sufficient for your purpose? What makes things complicated?

A month from now you're looking to find a video of your dog and your mom in the woods. You have 500 videos in 30 different daily folders. How do you find it?

[kyrcy]

I simply store photos and videos in folders named with the date taken. Isn't this sufficient for your purpose? What makes things complicated?

A month from now you're looking to find a video of your dog and your mom in the woods. You have 500 videos in 30 different daily folders. How do you find it?

Without a rough indication of the date, you keep looking until you find it. Maybe in the future you should name each video accordingly to help you find it again?

[Gromyko]

Command-line tools:
For users comfortable with command-line interfaces, tools like ExifTool can be used to add or modify metadata programmatically.
Programming libraries:
Developers can leverage programming libraries (e.g., Python's Pillow for images, mutagen for audio) to interact with and manipulate file metadata within their applications.





Remember, most current images and videos already store GPS info [Providing you did not turn it off]. Also, the phone provides Timelines so that you can remember where you were at specific dates. There are also thumbnails that can be used to grab the required image or video.


You can use ExifTool to find the GPS coordinate and then add these coordinates to the file name. May be able to use a GPS coordinate to actual location data conversion and then add location data to file name.


You can also do a grep name|date search to get files names and directory name

[needmesomevideohelp]

I simply store photos and videos in folders named with the date taken. Isn't this sufficient for your purpose? What makes things complicated?

A month from now you're looking to find a video of your dog and your mom in the woods. You have 500 videos in 30 different daily folders. How do you find it?

Without a rough indication of the date, you keep looking until you find it. Maybe in the future you should name each video accordingly to help you find it again?

You change the name, it updates the date of the file. Also, I have a a video that is shot for footage from a dirive to San Francisco from LA via the PCH with a stop in Big Sur with Angie, Dean and Dave with a stop at Santa Monica Pier and fish tacos picnic for lunch its going to be a long file name.

I mean if you have no idea of how to help with the question, I'm not sure why you're posting.