Best practice: Projects vs. folders in AE?

[blinkertoon]

Hi. We're just starting out using AE and would like to know how others are choosing to organise their work using projects / folders.

For instance, we have two main 'internal clients' in our department with several distinct products/services each. We also have 'internal clients' across the organisation...

My instinct would be to have a project per 'client' and create a folder for each product/service/campaign etc underneath these.

Aside from any thoughts/suggestions you might have, I'm especially keen to know of any specific issues/limitations (or missed opportunities) we may face sooner or later with this approach (e.g. practical or technical). For instance, I feel it is not only more logical but would be easier/more viable to share assets with 'clients' this way vs. having every product/service/campaign etc at the top 'Project' level?

Let me know your thoughts or advice!

Thanks.

[Tarun Saini]

Hi 

@blinkertoon

,

Welcome to the Adobe community! It’s great to hear that you’re getting started, and your approach to organizing projects sounds like a smart one.

A good way to stay organized is to set up one project per internal client or major department and create folders within each project for specific campaigns, services, or product lines. Keeping a clear naming convention, i.e. ClientName_2025, can make things easy to navigate. You might also find it helpful to use subfolders for design drafts, final versions, social media assets, or video content.

To streamline things even further, consider setting up branded templates in your Libraries for quick access and consistency across your projects.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Tarun

[blinkertoon]

Great, thanks Tarun - just what I had in mind 🙂

One final question, for now at least: you mention setting up branded templates in our libraries. I briefly moved our brand kit to a library, as understood this would make it more widely available across projects (if not our wider organisation). However, it just looked like a collection of files/folders then, much as we have in Teams/SharePoint - and so presumably lost the feature of applying it to assets etc.

Could you help me better understand this, or simply point me to anything online that explains the best way to use libraries, esp. In relation to brand kits?

Thanks again.




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[Tarun Saini]

Thanks for your response 

@blinkertoon

,

You can check the article below for more info-

1.  https://adobe.ly/3FQRFfS
2.  https://adobe.ly/4cgA259
3.  https://adobe.ly/4idVskV
4.  https://adobe.ly/44c2Fya

Let us know if that helps.

Regards,

Tarun

[blinkertoon]

Thanks Tarun (and for removing my email footer details...)

Brand links are useful but maybe it's libraries I need to better understand (esp. related to brand kit and why would / not consider moving this to a library i.e. prop-con).

Again, any help you can offer on that much appreciated!

Thanks.

[blinkertoon]

PS would this be the best place to start to better understand libraries? PS not check to see if explains the brand kit > library conversion...

[Tarun Saini]

Thanks for your response 

@blinkertoon

,

I see you've got the response here- https://adobe.ly/3XF0OOw

Regards,

Tarun

[blinkertoon]

Sure did - thanks again @Tarun Saini 🙂