I've had a very full, endlessly busy, day updating my video archives. Each video has a code number and variation letter, eg. V445A. The variation is used when a video has the same sort of look, but a different edit of a different size or length; as happens when a full-screen music video has a small square clip made for the Spotify Canvases.
Some of the Fall in Green videos were filed with two separate codes, one for the live back-projection videos, and again the similar video as a Spotify Canvas, so my first job was unifying these.
Many videos are tied to a music release, whether a Spotify Canvas or official music video, or a lyric video, or some other thing designed to accompany a published music recording; so I decided to name these with the album and track number, so I can see at a glance what goes with what. This was a lot of work, as the majority of the 602 videos I have filed are music videos of this sort (most are music videos, one way or another).
Some are lyric reading videos, and some might by live performances of a certain track, but those are not coded in that way. They are named after the track, but the codes are only for videos designed to accompany specific recordings, or projections for live performances of those. I don't code any version of the song as that can lead to over complexity; for a start there may be several alternative recordings to choose from.
This has taken all day, and allowed me an overview of how many videos I've made. Some songs have two different videos, like Interference, and China Syndrome has three. I noticed that I'd made a simple video for our 'Grim by Day', but hadn't uploaded it to the Fall in Green channel, so I did that tonight. I also updated all of the Fall in Green video text, and prepared a draft version of our new album on Bandcamp. We only have ONE follower there. Our music is, I think, wonderful, new and ground breaking; but I'm aware that it is also unheard and unknown by almost everyone.
It's nearly 9pm, and about 12 hours has been spent on this admin work; but it is done for now. Backup day tomorrow, so I'll probably just copy all 602 videos over rather than try to rename everything.
Onwards we crawl in exhaustion.
