A clip's category is not a decorative label: it decides its behaviour. Setting them up properly at the start saves a great deal later.
What a category decides
| Setting | Effect |
|---|---|
| Colour | How it looks in the rundown |
| Bug | Whether it airs with the channel bug or without |
| Age rating | The one announced and the one sent to the guide |
| Subtitles | Whether it is subtitled, and transcribed when there is no file |
| Appears in EPG | Whether it shows in the guide (advertising does not) |
| Hides the CG | Typical of advertising: covers lower thirds while it is on air |
| Breaks for advertising | Whether automation may place a break after it |
The ones that ship with AURA
Programme, News, Sport, Children, Film, Music, Bumper, Ident, Promo, Advertising, Sponsorship and Infomercial. They can be renamed, and you can create your own.
Your own categories
If you have formats with their own name, give them their own category. They behave like one of the built-in ones (you pick which) but with your colour and your name, and the rundown becomes far easier to read.
Automatic classification
Each category accepts name patterns. If all your bumpers are called BUMPER ..., AURA classifies them on ingest and you never touch them one by one.
A file's own metadata always beats automatic classification. If you correct something by hand, it is respected.