File Metadata Layout

1 File Metadata / File Name Layout Design Needs

1.1 Per File File Name

• Camera ID
• Reel ID
• Clip ID
• Year
• Month
• Day
• 24 Hour Time

Good choices are monotonic counters, like for example used to measure time, and strong cryptographic hashes based on the actual image data.

If all the infos above are part of the filename, there can't be collision :

yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_CamID_ReelID_ClipID