That's not dissimilar to our business folder format, ours goes a little something like this:
Tape barcodes are [2-digit year][Week as alpha/numeric single][Job code, 3 digit sequential] - [3 digit tape number sequential]
For example, as we get to the end of the day currently running are 22E013-010, 22E001-143 & 22E013-014, these are crossed linked to customer reference in a database, this probably isn't needed for domestic situations. We have barcode printers and a member of staff to deal with this, which is helpful
Our core folder structure, per job reference, looks like this:
- Inputs (whatever was captured)
- Intermediates (contains subfolders of any intermediate processed files)
- Documents (we scan various documents and PDF them, but again that's not a home thing.)
- Scripts
- Project (Contains any AE, Premiere etc files as required)
- Outputs (final deliveries, contains subfolders for various file formats).
That's the core, there are also business-sensitive folders attached but that's not relevant here. It's probably not the best system but I'm buggered if I'm changing it now, it was all arbitrary to begin with.
If we switch to (or flex-up) to lever AWS for off-site transcoding, it's all quite different but that's a whole other avenue of fun. There's probably a book that could be written on how that's structured, and that's not something for the DIY'er.