Thanks to all who have responded so far.
I'm running into a few wrinkles as I work through this and they are caused,
in the main, by how I have dealt with post work.
I'm assuming one keeps a mother lode of transferred files that remains
separate from any other commercial or multi-track projects,say,
StereoTranfers\Date\Subject (or whatever).
Given the quality of mics within my budget, most quiet nature recordings
need at least a little noise reduction. Also, most files need to be topped
and tailed to remove extraneous noises or chopped to just extract the best
bits, and rendered to a new file -or maybe you just trim the originals?
Depending on the purpose, one may also find themselves creating a composite
of several files rendered to a new one.
Now we have 'derivatives' that need to be cataloged consistently, and along
the way, we've probably created and used copies of the originals. Sooo...
Say you're editing in Reaper, Logic, Audacity, whatever:
Do you Move, or do you Copy source files into the Editors project folder?
Or do you have the Editor reference the originals 'in situ'?
Do you Move, or do you Copy the 'derivatives' to new place for cataloging
or leave them in the editors project folder?
Do you attempt to account for copied source files in your catalog -given
that they will show up with a system search, and may be confusing? Perhaps
you keep your transfers on a completely separate drive from the Editor work=
?
Do you too, have a pile of audio detritus laying around your disks that you
just can't delete, but you never get around to sorting out?
Cheers,
k
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Avocet <> wrote:
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> > For those of you who categorize according to subject, how do you
> > define the actual subject? Most of my recordings can fit into at
> > least several easily identifiable subject categories,
>
> Scott,
>
> This is a tree stucture of categories and sub-cateogories. As I wrote
> before, I keep my original material in day/date order, but
> increasingly I am using shortcuts to cross-reference them. So bird
> recordings could have shortcuts in a <bird> folder, but they could
> also be listed as type of call, or seasonal. A more sophisticated
> system could put the shortcuts in a database. The trick is to keep the
> large data file only in one place.
>
>
> David
>
> David Brinicombe
> North Devon, UK
> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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