🚀 Getting started
What the machine needs, how to activate the licence and how to put the first channel on air.
- What AURA is and what it solvesWhat a continuity playout is for, and what AURA does that a video player does not.
- What hardware you needReal machine requirements according to what you are going to broadcast.
- Activating your licenceHow AURA is activated, what happens without internet and how to move machines.
📡 Channels and outputs
SDI, streaming, IP transport and NDI. How your signal gets out.
- SDI output with a DeckLink cardAssigning a card to a channel, choosing the format and checking the signal is out.
- Network outputs: broadcast over IP versus streamingThe most common misunderstanding: delivering over IP does not mean lower quality.
- NDI: sending the signal to other machinesGetting programme and preview across the local network to a switcher, a graphics station or a monitor.
📋 Rundown and library
The daily work: preparing what airs, file metadata and categories.
- How the rundown worksStart and end times, what is on air, what is next, and what each colour means.
- File metadata: what it is forCategory, trim, aspect, validity dates, subtitles and sponsorship for each item.
- Categories: why they are the central pieceWhat a category decides, and why they are worth an hour of your time at the start.
💶 Advertising and sponsorship
Spots, campaigns, breaks and how to prove what aired.
- Spots, campaigns and proving what airedRegistering a commercial, setting dates and quotas, and reporting afterwards.
- Sponsorship linked to a programmeLetting the sponsor bumper follow its programme in and out, and stay on the record.
🎨 Graphics, bug and subtitles
Everything overlaid on the picture.
- The channel bug and the age ratingHow they are designed, when they appear and how to keep them off where they should not be.
- Subtitles: the three ways of doing itAutomatic detection, speech transcription, and the two output paths (burned-in or closed).
🤖 Automation
Letting the channel schedule itself without ceasing to look like television.
- What automation does (and what it will not touch)How it builds the schedule, why it does not change it by itself, and the rules it carries.
⚖️ Delivery and compliance
SCTE-35, EBU R128 loudness and the electronic programme guide.
- SCTE-35: ad break signallingWhat it is, who is going to ask you for it, and how to turn it on.
- Loudness: no reaching for the remoteThe loudness standards, why they matter, and what AURA measures and corrects.
🩺 When something goes wrong
What AURA watches on its own, what it warns about and what to do.
- Pre-flight: what it checks and what to doThe next-30-minutes check, what each warning means and how to resolve it.
- What AURA does so there is never blackThe defences that run on their own: filler, emergency loop, skipping and watchdogs.
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