Using five different platforms just to get one project out the door
Dropbox is the worst invention ever
I pay for two different AI tools because neither one covers everything
20-30 cameras on a shoot, half the pain is just making sure no two files have the same name
After a shoot, footage takes 2-3 days to sync, that gap makes me nervous
Deleted old client files to free up space, now if I need them I have to go find them all over again
Sent a client the wrong video once, too many file links buried in my notes
Everything's all over the gaff
I'm chronically anal about file organisation, so I'm the only one who can find anything
It's Legos vs. Playmobiles, more powerful but you need to actually organise it
Export from CapCut, upload to the platform... something's changed and I don't know why
Backing up is the part that makes me the most nervous
Finding old content is the bane of my life
Oh no... lost the file.
Two identical hard drives, one's broken, I genuinely don't know which
Everything's a bit all over the place
10,000 photos on my phone, 4TB on Drive... it's a nightmare
No idea how much of what we make ever gets used, we've never looked
Most companies only ever use 30% of the media they paid for
A client said "we've already used this photo"... we had no way of knowing
Sent the draft to three people and got three contradictory feedbacks
Version 14_final_FINAL_v2.mp4
Once put a client's entire wedding on one timeline and delivered the raw footage, still regret it
If something cheaper comes along, will I stay loyal? Probably not
900 photos from one shoot, and I have to manually cull it down to the best 20
It's so easy to just forget a clip exists
Download from Drive, edit locally, re-upload, every single time
I forget to post content that's already approved and sitting ready to go
It's powerful if you know file systems, confusing if you don't
We don't keep the raw footage anymore, only the finished exports
When asked what else they'd fix: just wrote "."
If the one person who knows where everything is ever leaves, we're stuck
My phone storage costs me £12 a month and I still just scroll and hope I remember where a clip is
Everything backs up to Google Photos and loses its folder structure, it just becomes one long timeline
Housekeeping always loses to whatever client is shouting loudest that day
I'd love AI to organise things, but not with anything a client said in confidence
A human eye catches things AI would just miss
Re-import a file after a tiny edit and it silently overwrites the old one, no warning
Nobody showed us how to use it when we started, we just had to figure it out ourselves
The wrong version goes out to the client more often than I'd like to admit
Hard drive costs have basically doubled and my workflow just keeps growing
Every good clip only lives in one client's folder, there's no personal archive of my own best work
The UI isn't user-friendly for non-power users, fine if you know file systems, confusing otherwise
It's all very manual
Everything crosses over a little, but nothing's all in one place
It can get messy so quickly
It's very back and forth
Cluttered everywhere
"We've already used this photo"
"Something has changed"
If something comes along and does all of this cheaper, it might make me think, do I want to be loyal?