How Do You Document/Organize Your Footage?

ZachsTechTurf · April 19, 2017

I am currently using Nvidia Shadowplay (or Share) to record all of my footage. I usually manually record everything I play and then I use the 20 minute Instant Replay recording for when I accidentally forget to start the manual recording. The problem is that it's impossible to sort through all the footage and organize it, unless after every single match, game, round, etc I go into the folder and rename the file with whatever event happened.

Is there anyway that I can QUICKLY document major events in my recording, such as a kill streak, huge crash in a racing game, scoring plays in sports games, etc? I would consider lowering my Instant Replay setting to like 3 minutes and then just hit the hot key every time something major happens, but then I lose my "backup" recording for when I forget to manually record games.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

ARikozuM · April 19, 2017

Folder with name of games. Afterwards, I'll path it as the game progression goes.

For example, The Wolf Among Us has many paths and I'll name the file "episode 2 - Tweedle Dee and Dumb-ass brother" and I'll place it in the "Aggressive" sub-folder.

Rounds of Rocket League I label as wins or losses and use those instances to show of epic wins or failures in editing.

ZachsTechTurf · April 20, 2017

5 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Folder with name of games. Afterwards, I'll path it as the game progression goes.

For example, The Wolf Among Us has many paths and I'll name the file "episode 2 - Tweedle Dee and Dumb-ass brother" and I'll place it in the "Aggressive" sub-folder.

Rounds of Rocket League I label as wins or losses and use those instances to show of epic wins or failures in editing.

Yea I mean that's exactly what I do now, but I want to narrow it down to a "goal" or a "killstreak." More than just if the game was a win or what not.

ARikozuM · April 20, 2017

1 minute ago, ZachsTechTurf said:

Yea I mean that's exactly what I do now, but I want to narrow it down to a "goal" or a "killstreak." More than just if the game was a win or what not.

I just label videos as I record. I've got like 600GB of videos and my channel has 7 videos...

I don't know if there are any programs that will auto-label videos for you. I do have a few Black Ops videos labeled under what primary weapons were used (Poor FAMAS never got any love)...

Helly · April 20, 2017

10 hours ago, ZachsTechTurf said:

Yea I mean that's exactly what I do now, but I want to narrow it down to a "goal" or a "killstreak." More than just if the game was a win or what not.

how would any program know if you had a kill or goal or w/e in the video. The only way to have what you want is if the program asks you what to name the video before it saves it. which would most likely take you out of the game. Same as you alt-tabbing and renaming the file urself.

I record every single match of rocket league i play. But i only keep the nice goals/saves/matches. You can't know its going to be good before you start the recording. If something good happens i alt-tab out of the game after the match and rename the last recorded file. rename it to something else so i don't delete it later and then go back to the game. There's no other way. If you want the program to analyse the video and find out of you made an awesome save/goal/kill/whatever then you're gonna need a monster of a PC and it will probably never be real-time, and will also have to be made on a per-game basis. Far to much work....