How do you manage your drone videos?

Question

The proliferation of drones makes me wonder: how do people manage their video library of footage?How do you find where the footage was taken? Dates? Times? GPS track?A quick search turned up nothing...but there must be something people are using now. What do you use?

mikewarot · Accepted Answer

I'd use the same thing I've been using forever... a little python batch file that creates a folder in the form

  /archive/2024/20240523/

I keep the folder and file names given by the sequence number in the camera. Any time I modify a file, I always save it with a new, and usually more descriptive, name.

Thus I'll end up with files like this

  /archive/2024/20240523/100D5100/DSC_8341.NEF

I've been storing things this way since 1997, I have local and remote backups of the entire /archive tree.

kawfey · Answer

I just put them, along with all of my other photo/video on a local NAS that's backed up to an offsite and to backblaze. sticking to a consistent file naming method of your choice is the best, but that's entirely based on your needs.Are you collecting footage as a personal archive, are you doing it as a business, or are you using drone footage as b-roll in a youtube video (whether for hobbiest pleasure or for youtube revenue)? to me, any of those cases would have a different naming and file management convention.

rozenmd · Answer

Same as photos, I edit them and upload to Flickr

JSDevOps · Answer

Surely YouTube is a good platform for this.

speedgoose · Answer

Google Photos is good enough for me.