Hi there. This video is all about file management. It's a nice, simple, easy one to do,  but avoid it at your peril. Um, we are gonna go through  and just take all the files that you've recorded, okay? And make sure that they match up to your outlines. You haven't missed anything.

Uh,  just make sure you number them correctly  and then make sure you back them up. It's nice and simple. Let's jump into the computer  and let's work through it now. Alright, so file management time. Uh, I finished recording  and all my files are in my raw files  and I'll just show you what I do just  to make sure I haven't missed anything  and I've backed up everything  because man, to lose that raw footage  or to forget to record one  of them can be a huge big bummer later on  and it's easy to rectify now. So in my raw, um, files, I've put everything.

Okay, so here are all the videos that I've done  for the recordings I did for, uh,  this is my Photoshop advance course. So it's a real long one. Um, one of the first things is you can see my numbering,  it's oh one and then the name of the video. So makes you put an oh one rather than just one. Sometimes it does weird numbering  because you, when you get up to 10, uh,  sometimes the one can end up underneath it  or joined up depending on your computer. So just put an oh 1, 0 2 0 3 if you're gonna be like me  and get past these,  I should really have put in oh oh one.

Okay, but I didn't realize it was  gonna be past a hundred videos. Wow. And the other thing  to do is just make sure you haven't missed anything. So the easiest way for me  to do it is I just click the first one, come down  to the bottom here, where is the hold shift, okay,  on my keyboard and just click. So I've got them all selected. And you can see down the bottom here it says,  I have 107 videos, uh, selected and there is 107.

So I know that I've got them all there. Sometimes I'll select it and it'll say You have 105,  and you'll be like, uhoh, I'm at 107,  but there's only 105 videos. There's two that are missing. Or I've ended up in the wrong place. Sometimes it's just I've, I've saved them onto my,  my documents instead of the right folder. Or I've actually totally just, I decided at the end  or while I was doing it, I'll record  that at the end and then never did.

So it's just a super easy check that I use just  to make sure nothing's missing. The other thing that I do is most of these videos,  'cause I teach software, um, it's all done in Camtasia. This is a Camtasia file and there's only one video. So video 89, how to make 3D text is all done within  that one Camtasia screenshot. There's no headshot on this one. If there are headshots, what I end up doing is,  see this one here, this, uh, video.

The second 1 0 2  before you get started is a mixture of two things. There is a live action. There's me  CC 2000, Hello. And there is a screen capture as well. So there's a mixture of both. So what I do, just to keep everything tidy is  to put them into a folder.

Okay? And there can be lots in there. Okay? This one only has two. Um,  and it just means that, yeah,  only occupies one little number there. And it's not all making this messy.

Same with the intro, but I'm scared to open this up for you  because this one's a messy one. Wow. Messy, which is really okay. There is a lot in the intro. I spend all of, like, I make a good video,  I make sure there's good class exercises,  but it doesn't take me very long to make the Camtasia video. But the intro, I spent a lot more time on it.

Okay? Um, like the intro for this particular course, okay,  the one you are watching right now, check it out. There's lots of things where there's bits of screencasts,  there's little bits of, there's music in the background. There's lots of, lots of different videos of me talking. So there's a lot more to the intro. So it goes into this folder  and there's a bunch of stuff in here.

So there's all the raw footage and I  stick it all together later on. So lots of effort, lots  of different videos go into the intro  and number, poor number oh eight just gets one old  screencast recorded in one big go and then I cut it all up  and edit it ready for the course. The other thing I do is I make sure they match the outline. So I've got 107 here. There should be 107 in the outline. I realize this is not the matching corresponding one.

This is the tidy one that I've got. Okay? So I just quickly go through  and just make sure that every  now and again I do a spot check. I go, okay, 22 is batch or image processing. And I check my, uh, outline just to make sure they match up  to make sure I haven't missed anything. Okay?

Just a nice easy check to do. Compare your outline to what you end up having in here. Next thing to do is back it up. Okay? So there's a couple of different ways I've got,  uh, I actually do it two ways. I'm paranoid.

Um,  one way is I have a backup hard drive, okay? And what I do now is I plug it into my computer  and I just drag my raw files onto it. Okay? So I, yeah, just as a backup,  just in case it all goes wrong,  at least I've got those raw files that I can go back to. Then what do I do with that hard drive? I hide it like a squirrel  because I'm not worried so much about,  I am worried about the files corrupting,  but um, I'm more worried about my laptop  getting stolen, okay?

And losing everything. And if they're gonna steal your  laptop and your little hard drive, it's sitting right next  to it, they're probably gonna steal that as well. So hide it somewhere else, back it up  and then move it away from right next to your computer. I have a special hard drive that I purely use for all  of my courses, just so  that they're somewhere in case it all goes wrong. So that's the one kind of paranoid thing I do. The next one is I'll grab the raw file  or I'll actually grab the whole folder  and drag it into, I use Dropbox as a backup.

Okay? So you just grab it  and I say, oh, my raw files are gonna go into Dropbox. I'm gonna make a copy of them. The cool thing about Dropbox is  that this like icon up here will slowly update  and we'll put them online. So you've got a copy there as well. You don't have to use Dropbox.

I think Dropbox has a fire two gigabyte free. You could use OneDrive from Microsoft. Amazon has Amazon Drive. Google has Google Drive. Who else is there? Box is another company.

Mozy is a company that I use for a little while, MOZY. If you're a Adobe Creative Cloud  user, you get this one here. Um, creative Cloud files, you could use that as well. There's loads of ways of backend stuff  up, so make sure you do it. Now, if you're paranoid like me,  do it a couple of different ways. Alright, so that's a nice simple file management step.

Let's move on to the next video.