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?