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If you’ve ever searched on a bittorrent search engine for a tv programme, you’ll notice their filenames are always in a certain format.

Part of the reason for this, is that programs like TvShows, ted (Torrent Episode Downloader),
and others rely upon standardized filenames to find and automatically download these torrents as soon as they’re released.

What the uploaders and programmers understand very well is that a strongly standardized filenaming convention makes
searching for these files and recognizing when they have been released significantly easier for the software.

Let’s say you are looking for the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica. The latest file is Battlestar.Galactica.S04E04.Escape.Velocity.HDTV.XviD-FQM.[VTV]

As all episodic torrents use a very similar filenaming convention to identify the exact episode of a particular series,
the software only needs to find “battlestar galactica” followed by S(number)E(number).

Once it has ascertained that this is the latest episode by checking that the Season and Episode numbers are indeed the latest available,
it recognizes it as the latest file and downloads it.

As you can see in the above filename even information such as the
Episode Name, Resolution, Compression Codec, Compression Profile and the encoding group is contained in the filename.

In turn, this can be used to our advantage as content creators to organize the vast amount of files we have to deal with in our work.
This allows us to take advantage of spotlight and FCP’s find function in the bins and timeline.

The rest of this article is here on Creative Cow.