Arma Bullshittery - Update #1

Thank you very much for taking part in that poll everybody. With the final votes from both Patreon and Twitch subscribers the results are:

• Arma 3 - 708
• Half Life Alyx - 646
• Human Fall Flat - 637
• Halo Master Chief - 490
• Holdfast - 425
• DayZ-  415
• Blade and Sorcery - 294
• Rec Room - 168

A fairly close call. Good info for the future too. I hadn't expected Human Fall Flat to be so high. Something I need to keep in mind.

For the moment though - Random Arma 3 Bullshittery (Part 10).

Thank you as always for your support everyone :) I've moved the footage to the high-speed hard drives in order to make a start.

Keeping it simple, my first task is cleaning up the Adobe Premiere master file. It's a bit of a mess I'm afraid. My process of clip categorization and storage became a lot more standardized after 2016 (when I went full time).

The problem is the Arma bullshitteries pre-date that. And even predate the use of Adobe Premiere (Feb 2017), with episodes 1 to 6 being edited in Sony Vegas. 

With Premiere though, episodes 7, 8 and 9 all had individual project files, just as I was doing in Sony Vegas. It's only by Arma 3 Antistasi (part 1 to 5) that I'd started doing the master project file thing. And purely for Antistasi.

What I need to do now is go from inconsistent naming conventions. With things like "arma stream sunday afternoon", or "Chernarus stream 2" for some of them. To something like this:

Then I'll have a stronger idea of what I have available.

Structural questions will follow from there. Questions like:

• The clips that remain unused from older Arma 3 sessions. Are they still useful?
• Do I intermingle those with the more recent big operations that Digby has been running?
• Do I instead skip over those to focus on "Prairie Fire" (the Vietnam expansion)?
• And if so, which one? The campaign or the "Mike Force" mod we ran?
• Or do I intentionally make no distinction whatsoever and just consider it all Arma 3?

I'll know much more after a deep dive into the available footage. Give me a few days to get back to you. For the moment I'm going to ensure I have well organised project file. Hope you're having a lovely week everybody.