Q: Organize years of old family videos.
Hi there,
My parents made a lot of videos of me and my brother growing up. Especially of our birthdays, holidays and special events. I am 19 years old now and never really saw all the footage. This was because it was shot on VHS-C and MiniDV and we did not have the gear to play it back. I got really into it and researched how I could digitize all of the footage and I did. I have VHS-C recordings from 1993 to 1999 and MiniDV recordings from 2000 to 2006. I found a way to digitize it and I imported all in to FCPX. I made a library named ‘Old tapes’ and events of all the years I have footage of. Now I want to create movies of all the different events that happened during my live in this period. Before I create projects, I really want to think over what the best way to do this is. I want a system that allows me to organize every video with tags, like names of family members, locations, etc. I know when you export a project in FCPX you have the ability to add tags. However, I never got this system because I don’t see the tags back in the exported movie in Finder. Then I taught of the Photos app, but I’m not sure if that is the right way to go. Besides, it will make my Photos Library significantly larger. I do think using the Photos app gives me a more structured and more visual appearing experience than just having video files in Finder folders.
So my question to you: what is the best way to organize all of my old video tapes and what would be the easiest way to find back certain videos just by searching for tags.
Thank you.
Posted on Jul 3, 2016 12:17 PM

