How to Organize AI-Generated Video Clips Before You Lose Track of 200 Files

A naming and tracking system for AI video production, borrowed from a hundred years of film pipeline discipline that the AI tools never inherited.

Three weeks into producing Lost Garden, my corridor scene folder had 214 files in it. corridor_v2.mp4. corridor_v2_ACTUAL.mp4. corridor_FINAL_use_this_one.mp4. Not one of those names told me which prompt, which seed, or which of three separate generation attempts had made it. I had to open each file and watch it to remember what it even was.

That is not a personal failure of organization. It is what happens by default when a tool lets you generate twenty variations of a shot in the time it used to take to set up one camera angle.

A file naming and tracking system for AI-generated video needs to capture four things a traditional camera shoot never had to worry about: a scene and shot ID, a variant number for the pile...

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