Organize years of old family videos.

Hello

My parents did a lot of videos of me and my brother growing up. Especially for our birthdays, holidays and special events. I'm 19 now and never really seen footage. It was because it was shot on MiniDV and VHS-C and we had no speed reading. I got really into it and how I could scan all the images I made the object of research. I have some records VHS-C from 1993 to 1999 and MiniDV from 2000 to 2006. I found the way to digitize it and I imported while at FCPX. I made a library named "Old tapes" and events of all the years, I have pictures of. Now, I want to create movies of all the different events that happened during my lifetime in this period. I create projects, I really want to think about what is the best way to do it. I want a system that allows me to organize all videos with tags, like the names of the family members, locations, etc. I know that when you export a project in FCPX, you have the ability to add tags. However, I've never had this system because I don't see the tags in the sequence exported in the Finder. Then I taught the Photos app, but I don't know if it's the right way to go. In addition, she will be my much larger photo library. I think using the Photos app gives me a more structured and more Visual folders appearing experience to just have video files in the Finder.

So my question: what is the best way to organize all of my old videotapes and what would be the best way to find some videos of back just by searching for tags.

Thank you.

Electroisolante luck with your project. You do your family a favor.

Start by looking for keywords in the system using FCPX and then Cap on the web and YouTube for other tips on using keywords. The change of this kind of things is difficult because you have to remove the Junk without deleting the moments that are valuable to others, but may not make sense to you.

video of marking is exhausting! takes weeks... to create a taxonomy of your tags must be made first of all and with care. For example, Chistmas is an event like a birthday or a holiday? Is a car identical to wander around camping trip? Don't forget to use terms that are specific to your family and they will recognize.

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