Naming Convention for Television show

[Shane Ross]

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Shane

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Alan Smith] “I dont mind paying for professional advise and consultation. It would be nice to be able to access the information online, without having to wait 2 weeks to get it.”

Really nothing we can say on here that Shane hasn’t already taken the time to show you on the disc. It’s an exhaustive overview on workflows in FCP and naming convention is a big part of it.

Order the disc, when it arrives you will get a ton of knowledge.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Bill Dewald]

I’m sold – been meaning to pick up the DVD, and this thread reminded me…

just placed my order… I hope its great!

Viva the Cow!

[Mark Raudonis]

Here’s a taste of what you’ll get from Shane’s DVD.

As one of the “consultants” on Shane’s DVD, I can offer you this for free. (Shane… you never paid me!)

We use the following convention: Show ID, Date, Camera, Reel #, Load.

For example: “Reality Show season 21= RS21, Date = 9/05, Camera = “A”, Load = 05

This would translate to: RW21905A05

When you’re shooting five different shows at the same time, a “show designator” is crucial. Other than that, the it’s pretty straightforward. We’ve used this convention for years and it works. Anything more detailed belongs in a “description or notes column”. Anything less won’t differentiate between shows.

Good luck.

mark

[Bill Dewald]

Excellent – i use a very similar naming convention. Can’t wait to geek out to all the details.

[Shane Ross]

[Mark Raudonis] “As one of the “consultants” on Shane’s DVD, I can offer you this for free. (Shane… you never paid me!)”

Hey, I gave you a DVD for FREE, didn’t I?

Hee.

Thanks for giving your example.

Shane

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[Glenn Grant]

Check out this article from Dustin Lau in the COW library.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/lau_dustin/mediamanagement.php

It is pretty good to get you started. But as the others have said, what works for someone else may not work for you.

[Ben Avechuco]

I don’t have the DVD (yet) but here is our setup at KAET-TV Phoenix (PBS)
We have several folders on the root level of the XSAN:
PROGRAMS (TV shows)
PROMOS (On Air)
MARKETING (Sponsorships)
PLEDGE ($$$)
PRODUCTION SERVICES (Clients)
XSAN UTILITIES (Installers, Extra fonts, Parts all users might need access to)
Final Cut Pro Documents (Created by final Cut Pro)
XDCAM MEDIA (Ingest folder)
etc…
In “PROGRAMS” there are folders for each program we are working all. All materials for a program are placed here, and broken down into folders based on the segment names…

For each new project, we name them by:
1) A 3-4 letter code for the project name
2) The initials of the person responsible for the content of the project
3) A description of the segment

So, for the program Arizona Stories: season 3 with David Majure’s piece on German WWII POWs “Great Escape” in Phoenix, the FFCP project name is:
AZS3_DM_GreatEscape.fcp

The Scratch Disks for ALL users is set to XSAN:Final Cut Pro Documents so we can find Digitized footage, and render files all in one place for archiving and deletion.

If we shoot on XDCAM, ALL footage goes into the XSAN: XDCAM MEDIA folder with the same naming convention with a Disc# appended to it. We also have an automator script to rename all the files in the folders to add the same name as the disc.

To create backups of the project files, the project is copied, and renamed to add the current date, and filed. The name of the original project never changes so we don’t get a multitude of render file folders.

With this system, we wanted to be able to know, at any given time, what project the footage was used for and who is responsible for it.

That’s how it is SUPPOSED to happen. It has been pretty successful, but some folks will forget how the system works occasionally.

Is this the kind of information you’re looking for?

– Ben