File organization hacks for creators | b-roll library, camera roll albums + more

[@katie]

Okay y'all be honest - how many photos do you have in your camera roll right now?? lol time to go organize 🤓

[@Jenniferadcock]

Like 7000 😆

[@AmmyWolfable]

So many that I bought cloud storage

[@CharlotteKanStudio]

More than 21.000 😂

[@J4rming]

as of right now..... 75,354 photos and videos.... 😂😂😂 send help. I need to minimise it before the storage cost goes up next moth... I have 2TB cloud storage aaahaaa

[@madison_latifi]

60k+ 😢

[@mrsbekahjoy]

The camera roll hack of hiding what you want to keep is BRILLIANT 🔥

[@mrsbebeeledger]

Everytime I watch one of your videos I feel like it just get that much closer to understanding social media and how to really grow! And it’s working!! You are amazing and thank you for believing in ALL OF US

[@katie]

that makes me so happy!! i'm so glad to help :)

[@veronika_languagediaries]

Hey Katie! ✨ I wanted to say a huge thank you for making such amazing videos with wonderful tips and tricks for content creators! Your channel is helping me so much grow my KZbin channels, and stay organized and creative. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ☺

[@DarkBlueNutrition]

Katie - I just want to take a moment to say you’re a total gem! Your KZbin videos are soooo incredibly thoughtful, well articulated and helpful. I’ve been naturally binging your content during my time off on maternity leave - because while I’ve been creating for a long time now… I’m ready to finally take my channel and business to the next level. Your videos have been a blessing! Thank you 💙💙

[@bedhead-studio]

this was one of the best videos ive ever seen on organization. I desperately needed this. thank you so much

[@nixiemariefengshui]

I am a Virgo moon and SO appreciate this organization strategy! I do something similar but you took it to another level!

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

More organization! Love your videos. Real info, not bs!🙏

[@annaforest]

Mindblown🤯 this makes so much sense, why I've never thought of any of this?!?!

[@thecashstuffingcanuck]

Thank you thank you for sharing that amazing tip about how to organize your photos on your camera! I did not know about the hidden feature!

[@jackivlogs6728]

Thank you for this!!!!!!!!!!! The people spoke , you delivered 😊

[@overly.chromatic]

on day three of cleaning out my phone - so helpful!

[@jashanakia]

I've became unhinges with not keeping my stuff organized. Thank you for the inspoooo

[@kcocafit]

I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS FOR WEEKS!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH KATIEE!!! I struggle with organization (content wise) and I've been hoping one of my fave creators would post about it. THIS WAS BEYONDDD HELPFUL. I HOPE THIS VIDEO GETS THE VIEWS AND LIKES THAT IT DESERVES!!!!!!

[@Nessamessuh]

Your channel has helped me more than you can imagine❤️

[@katie]

so glad to hear that ❤️

[@hlt8770]

Thanks for being so consistent with positing. I look forward to your videos each week. Also, thanks for the survey on hangout / learning opportunities. Super excited for that!

[@vicki-lynnemccabe]

OMG Katie, I need this so much. I'm still very challenged with technology and struggle but this really helped. I know I needed to make files etc but this made it look easy. Thank you. Love all your content

[@marlocosmetictattoo]

I love the beginning when you said - youre probably here because you like organizing... anything to make my work flow better! Love this "behind the curtain" content! Big fan. Much love from NYC! xoxo Marlo

[@aionagarcia6621]

I love this! I’m nerdy OCD and this helps me alot. Thank you!❤

[@user-yg3vk8cm5s]

Omg this is AMAZING!! Thank you so much for sharing, file organization makes me so stressed out and this was so, so helpful. Thank you thank you thank you!

[@boldblondfro]

I love this behind-the-process content!

[@keikoxlee]

You have been so helpful. ❤ super grateful for your content!

[@katie]

so glad to hear that!! ❤️

[@marketingbyshelby]

I am in awe of your organization. My ADHD could never. My clients ask me "What do you use to schedule your posts?" and I'm like welllllll UMMMM. 🤣

[@EfrainG2]

I sympathize with this so much 😅 we will get there!

[@davidthescottishvegan]

Katie is definitely a nerd (nothing wrong with being a nerd). Thanks for this inspirational video and love 🥰 it. Love 💞 Katie.

[@SamanthaRegimbal]

❤Hi Katie!! Love this so much… new KZbinr here and your content has truly inspired and helped me… Thank you!

[@One_fun_day]

So. I am OBSESSED with all your content! It is soooo helpful! I work in marketing and am an actor, but I just launched my KZbin channel and there is just so much to figure out. You provide so much value!!! Thank you and keep it coming. ❤

[@MoneyMadeMagic]

Thank you. I'm no where near as organised but its given me some great ideas for when I do get time to organise my stuff ❤

[@johnclay7644]

useful on the organisation side insight tips and useful content. Thanks Katie.

[@LenaLuciia]

omg I haven't even watched it and am already excited for this video it took me soooo long to get my things organised I wish I had this sooner - great video idea!

[@bymichlea]

thank you, this video is so helpful!! No one seems to talk about organization yet it is such an important part of the process

[@joyoffilming9500]

Great video. Organising your footage is important.

[@Erin_Wilson_Studios]

Can't recommend this strongly enough. A couple pointers from someone who wasn't disciplined (and worked with undisciplined team members): -rename, tag, and file everything immediately. The more disciplined you can be about this, the better. You think future you will have more time to take care of this, but nope. -try to think how future you, and potential team members, will be looking to access media. Keep that in mind as you rename files. Katie laid out such a great approach here. I've had colleagues who insisted on naming files according to which camera/phone they used to record. Total nightmare for later. Impossible to find media without scrubbing through hundreds of hours of video or audio.

[@Tabetha.]

I love your vids. You are a nerd but that's wonderful. ❤❤❤❤

[@JoannaWeaver]

This is great, Katie! I especially appreciate the phone tips. Soooo much on my phone and couldn’t figure out how to organize and clean it.

[@katie]

I know right!! it can be overwhelming

[@JoannaWeaver]

@@katie Just wondering...I heard Google Photos is shutting down. What will you do with your library?

[@shebaknee]

This was super helpful! Just here to say thank you ❤

[@trippingtheroad_liaandkevin]

This video was so helpful & calming at the same time. Was stressing out so much because we have SO MUCH footage to organize, it's insane haha 🤯 Thanks for the inspo!

[@katerinafrancesca]

Wow, this was incredibly helpful ❤

[@ZackDooley]

OMG! Thank you for this video Katie!!! I have been on a massive organizational spree and this video has given me the inspiration to further organize my files! Cheers to a lovely rest of the week! 😊😊😊

[@katie]

yay so glad I could help!!

[@HitchandHitched]

Thank you for this. The most informational video on organizing for content creators ❤❤❤

[@magnolya8]

1:19 😊Ask & you shall receive! Well in this case anyway, I was looking for ideas & you posted Thanks!

[@SamandEm]

I’ve been waiting for this!

[@cassieltomeseklifestyle]

Thank you for this video! Love organisational videos. ✨ Especially for content creating! Love love love your videos!🙌🏻

[@prof.tyndall]

OH THANK YOU GOD

[@LifewithMar]

Love organization videos like this, super helpful! I have a weekly reminder to handle my photos but I don't--yikes. It's such a hard habit to stay consistent with. There's 53K+ Photos on my phone 😭😭

[@idapostiugelstad3388]

This was really helpful😊 Thank you!

[@thyalyssatran]

Hey Katie! Could you make this video but for regular vlog/travel content? Also, is there a difference between using underscore and dashes?

[@filmedbyian]

Thank you for this! Got some work to do 😭

[@fruityeva]

Great video!😊

[@inah6655]

I loooooooove your videos about your work

[@Kendrasway]

It absolutely does Katie!

[@trishmccallister]

I’ve been a professional video editor for 10 years and I still aspire to have my footage this organized. Lol. Thanks for the tips!

[@fullofgraceandtruth85]

Great Content ❤

[@grounded_maritimers]

Does anyone else want her to just literally have a video showing each folder?

[@coachcarenfern]

🎉you always have such great tips as I too love being creative

[@katie]

yay! so glad to help :)

[@thyalyssatran]

Hey Katie! Thanks for all the helpful content as always! Super random but would you say capitalization matters at all for folder naming on a hardrive? And would love to see another file organization video for vloggers! 🤩

[@prairienurse]

Great Video! Thanks!

[@Thesundayjumpstart]

This is sooo helpful! I’m a newbie KZbinr. I’ve made about 5 videos so far and I’m like “how the hell do I organize all of this” and this was the answer! Thanks so much for always making super helpful videos for us! 🫶🏽🙌🏽

[@amberristow]

Hey Katie - this video is SUPER helpful. I'm starting a blog and with that has also come content creation. The storing of videos feels so overwhelming for me and I have been dying to know how others are doing it. This was great. I follow similar practices as you for my camera roll and I also use Google Photos. One question I have for you is about your cloud storage - Google Photos. What do you do when you have a scenario where the photo/video isn't on your phone anymore and it's out in Google Photos. How do you find it? What I've found is that when I organize albums in my phone and add things to those albums - it's great. But then when/if I need to free up phone storage and I get rid of the internal stuff - it's a pain because unless I ALSO organize the Google Photos (which sounds like a nightmare TBH) everything is just in chronological order in the cloud... the photos and videos are out there, but not in the organized albums I had on the internal storage. Searchable, yes, but still not as easily used. Just wondering your take on this and what you might do to keep your cloud feeling as tidy as your camera roll??? Thanks!

[@Parker-Green]

Hi Katie! I was wondering what you thought about just using an iCloud storage subscription for photos on your phone vs getting a subscription to Google Photos/something else?

[@rishaparr]

Hi Katie! Love this information! So helpful! Can you please do a video on creating art content? I am having trouble coming up with ideas for content creation and considering that all of the art videos are the same ---- I think others are too! Thanks!

[@thyalyssatran]

Omg the hidden feature in Apple photos 🤯

[@katie]

right?! when I discovered that I was like "nooo wayy!"

[@thyalyssatran]

@@katie thank you so much for sharing I’ve been struggling to find the solution to organize all of my content (esp on iPhone) and this is it!!!

[@megw1086]

I agree! That could have been a video on its own! So useful.

[@SamuelPeifferOfficial]

That's what I call organized! What if you do a video that has tons of B-Roll but it is not re-usable b roll? Do you still put that in your library or just dump everything into the project folder? or is that what the "specific" folder is for? Thanks for your help :)

[@diiegopc]

3:55 is there a way of making Windows file explorer look like this Mac files explorer?

[@carlascalling]

i'm also a digital (and real life) organization nerd!! so do you need to have your hard drive connected to your laptop the whole time you're editing? or are they now stored on your computer?

[@FunsizeQue]

Do you think it's better to create a premiere pro template and add the assets in the project window, or adding the assets in your libraries on Premiere. I'm trying to decide what's the best way to save space on my computer. What are your thoughts?

[@padmajasakthi]

so click and drag then it won't be there on the lifestlye folder on the youtube folder?

[@mamiandmila]

Do you back up your hard drive to a cloud just in case?! My worst fear bc once my school hard drive was corrupted and I couldn't get anything back 🥴

[@overly.chromatic]

When you're adding it to your premiere pro library, where does that save? Intuitively it seems like it would add to your computer, which you were avoiding with the external drive?

[@katie]

so the actual footage is not being moved anywhere when it is imported into Premiere Pro - Premiere Pro is just accessing/generating previews of it it from my hard drive (this is why you may notice if you move your clips from one folder to the next, Premiere Pro will need you to re-link that media, because it loses track of it) And the project file itself, as well as the auto-saves - I have set to save to my external hard drive as well :)

[@overly.chromatic]

@@katie oh cool, sounds like it works similarly to itunes! thanks for the detailed reply :)

[@ivyandnaturefilms]

Brillant

[@LoveToya]

Where can I find this content calendar?

[@sandymakesplans]

do you delete the raw footage after a certain point?

[@shawneeGoes]

I only have 20k photo in my camera roll 😂

[@allianne]

my biggest fear is using a solid state drive and then loosing the content 🥹🥹

[@andrewcharlesmoss]

I like the fact you use pure lowercase for your filenames. I’ve been considering doing the same!

[@TheFloridaBikeVlogger]

i need this in my life

[@J4rming]

The hide photos tip is a GAME CHANGER! Thankyou 🙌🏼 off to tackle the 75k photos I have on my phone 😂🤣!!!!!

[@katie]

haha oh my gosh best of luck!! i know you'll feel amazing when you're done haha

[@kylieanne23]

Awesome! Thanks so much! Just wondering if you then delete the video off your card/phone/whatever and do you keep a back up of the hard drives? I’ve heard of hard drives crashing 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

[@alexandrie1054]

Hello, I just subscribed, I really like your channel that is really inspiring. I watched this video and many others. I watched "my content workflow" that made a kind of smart blueprint in my minde. Do you think you could make a video about every steps of making a video in detail with what you use to do so? There are so many, the scripting, making a thumbnail, etc. They can look so hard to be doing for beginners. Anyway, thank you for you work which is so helpful, I cannot wait to binge your content 🤤🥰

[@neetikabhatia]

Amazing tutorial Katie 😍 I was looking for something like since long

[@jeanettef.chaplin4326]

Thanks for the tip on hiding and deleting photos on phone, I had no idea you could do that!

[@pomona.remembers]

Thank you 🎉 I was just wondering out loud about how I could even start to think about organizing my stuff on the computer 😂 😮

[@SupermamaLiving]

Great timing, Katie. I needed this! Just starting my YT journey and looking for every way possible to keep work flow smooth and efficient. You rock!

[@tarasdiary]

14:20 you're a god send for this, I struggle so bad with organising content on my phone and i prefer editing my shorts/reels through there. so right now i've been struggling how to keep my b-roll footage clean while also accessible. thanks as always katie!