How do you sort your shorts?

[Action Batch]

I was wondering, what are the category names you use to sort them?

[Bob]

I just use the names they come with and store them in iTunes in the movie listing with all the other movies I have in iPad.  That is for the ones the MP4 size.  That is how I have the VODs stored in iTunes too.

For the full size MPEG2, I keep them in the same name and burn the VODs onto DVDs and the shorts I just save the most recent 8 ones on a shorts DVD as well.

[Thrifty Version II]

I don't really sort them.  I just accumulate them in sets of 12, and when that happens, I cook up a DVD collection with menus and a DVD cover.  They're on the DVD in sequential order by release date.

[RVR II]

I sort my shorts by colors, stripes, solids, and waist size 

[MrTorso]

I used to do DVDs for every ten shorts. In chronological order of release. I did about 5 DVDs before I just went digital files only. I just name the file with a number and the title. Like for the latest it is RTS-195-BatmanTakesOver.mkv

[Action Batch]

Thanks for the feedback. I got to thinking because of the new Batman short, which is more accurately a serial. So I was thinking of creating folders for "Education, Etiquette, Health & Hygiene, etc" but I've already got about 11 categories and I keep running into shorts that don't quite fit into a specific category.

This may be a fools errand.

[Thrifty Version II]

If they do the entirety of the Batman serial, I may just break with tradition and put all those on a separate DVD.

[Locuststakethesky]

I basically do the same thing as Torso.  I'm at work now, but RTS195 sounds right.  As far as movies go, I used to have them separated by VOD and MP3, and then putting them in folders by series (like Twilight, Star Wars, etc.)...but that got to be cumbersome so now I just have them chronolgically numbered from RT001 Roadhouse to RT159(?) Fangs, filling in holes as I purchase.  If you try to do categories, there's always going to be something that just doesn't fit. 

Of course, you could always go autobiographical 

[Trekker4747]

My shorts alphabetized themselves in the file-folder on my computer so they got put on DVD in alphabetical order, more or less.  The last couple of ones have been basically in release-date order with the discs having an open file system.

[eegah]

Here are my categories:

Christmas
Education (I'm thinking of splitting this between 'for children' and 'for educators')
Employee Training
Food & Health
Miscellaneous
Safety (thinking of splitting this between 'road safety' and the rest)
Sex, Drugs, & Crime
Social Guidance
Sports & Nature
Women

I really wish I had some sort of video player (connected to the TV) that I could put all the shorts on and shuffle play them.

[Compound]

I just shove them all in a folder marked "shorts" which is a subfolder of a folder called "Rifftrax."

Seems to work fine.

[TheUnabeefer]

I also used to do DVD sets, until I realized I MISSED one on the 3rd disc (I had them all numbered right on my list.... I just missed it in the burning somehow) and gave up on the DVD's because I also ran out of shelf space. I still do the movies on DVD.......

...but for absolutely everything riff related, I've been putting them all on my external hard drive in folders. "Rifftrax" (which I am up to 160, due to my inclusion of both Missile To The Moons) "Rifftrax Presents" and "Rifftrax Shorts" namely... in addition to MST3k and Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax Live etc.

I don't break up my shorts by category, because it would be just too confusing and there would be categories I'd have to make up for one single short or whatever....

[Locuststakethesky]

I really wish I had some sort of video player (connected to the TV) that I could put all the shorts on and shuffle play them.

I don't know what kind of set up you have, but here's what I did.  I got a cheap small form factor PC (mine was free from a friend, you can find them on Ebay (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc) for like $100 or so, Example), wiped it, installed Windows 7 on it, and put in an HDMI video card ($35, Amazon).  Connected this to my network, and shared all my Rifftrax.  Open VLC, drop all the shorts in a playlist, shuffle.  This is how I watch all my Rifftrax.  Oh, also, I recommend a HTPC remote ($15, Amazon). 

[TheUnabeefer]

I really wish I had some sort of video player (connected to the TV) that I could put all the shorts on and shuffle play them.

I don't know what kind of set up you have, but here's what I did.  I got a cheap small form factor PC (mine was free from a friend, you can find them on Ebay (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc) for like $100 or so, Example), wiped it, installed Windows 7 on it, and put in an HDMI video card ($35, Amazon).  Connected this to my network, and shared all my Rifftrax.  Open VLC, drop all the shorts in a playlist, shuffle.  This is how I watch all my Rifftrax.  Oh, also, I recommend a HTPC remote ($15, Amazon).

Here's what I did. I got a bio-metric implant in my BRAIN... And then I set up a Unix server inside there where I keep all of the shorts in MP4 on a 6 terabyte flash implant on the back of my neck. So now, I just THINK "rifftrax, shorts, random... play" and it happens in my visual stem.

[Locuststakethesky]

I really wish I had some sort of video player (connected to the TV) that I could put all the shorts on and shuffle play them.

I don't know what kind of set up you have, but here's what I did.  I got a cheap small form factor PC (mine was free from a friend, you can find them on Ebay (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc) for like $100 or so, Example), wiped it, installed Windows 7 on it, and put in an HDMI video card ($35, Amazon).  Connected this to my network, and shared all my Rifftrax.  Open VLC, drop all the shorts in a playlist, shuffle.  This is how I watch all my Rifftrax.  Oh, also, I recommend a HTPC remote ($15, Amazon).

Here's what I did. I got a bio-metric implant in my BRAIN... And then I set up a Unix server inside there where I keep all of the shorts in MP4 on a 6 terabyte flash implant on the back of my neck. So now, I just THINK "rifftrax, shorts, random... play" and it happens in my visual stem.

Did...did I just get served?  Is that what happened?  Is this the part where I say you're worse than Hitler?  I don't really do forums a lot.