In going through some of my folders tonight needing to clean up many 10’s of gigabytes taken up by test renders, progress vids and various other folder fodder. I found some pretty interesting naming conventions I had used for the file names. That made me think about what some best practice naming conventions are for my files.

There are a multitude of approaches you could take but I need to find one that’s consistent and will allow me to know it’s contents without having to open it. On that subject how do you name your raw fraps files? Do you bother to rename them or just encode them, name THAT file, and delete the fraps file. This touches on the great celtx podcast about workflow.

Anyway, just rambling here while waiting for the new_final_contest_render_02_bNew.avi to finish rendering.

Cheers!