Video and stills management

[theonlyski 8]

How do you import and file your media from a jump?

A camera guy showed me his technique that works well, and I somewhat adapted it so that all of my media is filed

2011\(MM-DD-YYYY)\Student_Name\ (pictures/video folders)

I wrote a program to auto import my footage/stills into these folders and off my memory cards. Works well for me, but what works for you?

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[dragon2 2]

I use:

for tandems:
YYYYMM\tandems\DD\number+name\video folder\stills folder

for a team:
YYYYMM\teamname\DD\video folder\stills folder

etc.

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[theonlyski 8]

How do you import the files? Copy/paste, or do you have some other program that does it for you?

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[dragon2 2]

I do a copy/paste by hand. So far, been too lazy to try and write a macro to do it

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[theonlyski 8]

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I do a copy/paste by hand. So far, been too lazy to try and write a macro to do it

I got REALLY bored at work a couple weeks ago... 120+ lines of code later, works pretty well... Just curious how others are doing it and how they manage the media.

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[dragon2 2]

OK I had a go at that.

Mine is fairly customizable, haven't tested it out in the real world yet.

Any1 want to try it?

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This program will copy or move photo and/or videofiles to your pc.

It will create the following main directory:

HDD:\YYYY MM\mainDir\DD-MM (where HDD en mainDir are settings you provide)

It will also create the following sub directories:

If you give the name as parameter:
name
name photo
name2
name2 photo
etc

If you do not provide the names as parameter:
1
1 photo
2
2 photo
etc


Before running this program, sure the settingsfile is filled out for your needs:


path to the destination drive.

directory name, ie tandems, or leave blank to skip.

path to the source videofiles on your memorycard.

path to the source photofiles on your memorycard.

true if you want to move files, otherwise the program will copy only.

true if you want to move files, otherwise the program will copy only.

photo or video if you want to use this program for photos or video only, leave blank otherwise.

true if you want to see the readout after the program is done.


How to give a name as parameter:
Start the program from the command line, or make a shortcut, and add a space then a name (just one name).

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[theonlyski 8]

Is it all command line based? What did you use to code it?

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[dragon2 2]

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Is it all command line based? What did you use to code it?

it's a little console app, in c#

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[theonlyski 8]

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Is it all command line based? What did you use to code it?

it's a little console app, in c#

Interesting that you use an XML file for the configuration settings though.

I can't try it out here, but sounds interesting. Mine is a windows based app that sits in the task bar until activated with two hot keys, pops up a window asking for a student name, and away it goes!

It creates the folder structure:
d:\Skydiving\Media\2011\MM-DD-YYYY\Student\Pictures
d:\Skydiving\Media\2011\MM-DD-YYYY\Student\Videos

Moves the media off of both of my cards simultaneously... Then it copies my Vegas template to the Student folder, and starts Vegas... Opens explorer windows for both the pictures and video files so I can drag and drop the pictures, hit burn, drag the video files to vegas and edit.

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