From the course: Video Data Management on Set and in the Field

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Logging data

Logging data

- Let's begin the process of understanding what to do with your media. First up, when data comes to you, the first thing I recommend is logging it. Now, I've got a card wallet from on set, and what I can easily do is take my media bin, and if I'm not ready to do something with this yet, I can easily put this into the bin that says need to be transferred. I recommend having either a larger box set for in studio, or something simple here. So, in this case, I know that if I'm not able to get to these cards yet, I'm going to put them into the bin labeled needs to be transferred, and then seal it back in. Now, in this case, I am ready to transfer one of those cards, so I will start with this. We'll simply take the first card out, and I see some impartial information. I got card one, card two, and the next one's not labeled, so already the system is a little bit broken, but that's okay. Let's start with what we think is card one, and I'll put the others away here. There we go. And I'll…

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