Break Templates

u This function is used for Break Template maintenance.

Creation and Identification of Templates

The breaks' format (templates), in which the events to be included automatically in the daily programming are defined, is specified on the screen "Break Template" (see diagram). The above screen presents three distinct panels:

• Panel 1 (identification), contains the Template's name or identifier (which should be unique in the system), the corresponding Channel and the validity period. This information indicates to which channel the template applies to, and the validity period of the criteria and model
• Panel 2 (Criteria) indicates the criteria for using the Break Template (see the following). When creating the Daily Schedule, these criteria are used for the template selection, to each event on the Monthly Schedule.
• On Panel 3, the desired break format template is specified. This template indicates events to be inserted before and after each program on the Monthly Schedule, as long as it meets the Criteria on Panel 2. It also indicates the break position, for the insertion of other material on the daily schedule.

The Program Break option indicates that the template will be used only for configuring breaks during a particular program (intra-program breaks).

The occurrence of inter-program breaks is determined by the Channel configuration and by the existence of a Commercial Format for the program

Use Criteria

The criteria of a particular template is used to select the exact template to format a break corresponding to a particular movie, program or series.
As seen above, the initial selection criteria is the channel and the validity period of a particular template. The other criteria take into account information about the event on the monthly schedule.

Any criteria not filled in or blank indicates it applies to any event on the schedule (except weekdays).

a) Event Type
Indicates the event type to which this template applies to, or the type of program being shown, for example:

• Movie - Movie in normal exhibition
• Series - series episode
• Show - show
• Program - program
• @ - any type of event corresponding to a BD Movie
• etc.…

This information is compared to the contents on the Product Type field on the corresponding Movie or Program file.

If not filled in, the template applies to any event on the monthly schedule.

b) Run
This field indicates the schedule program's "Burst type", e.g.: E-premiere, C-carry over, R-rerun, etc..
If not filled in, the template will be applied to any type of exhibition.

c) Title
Here the specific title of a particular Program or Series can be indicated, creating a unique break format for that program or Series episode.
It is possible to indicate only the beginning of the desired title, using the character "@" at the end of the text. In this case, any title that starts with that text meets the criteria.

d) Series
Here a Series name can be indicated, creating a Headline for any episode in the Series.
It is possible to indicate only the beginning of the Series name, using the character "@" at the end of the text. This way any Series that starts according to the text will meet this criteria.

e) Genre
The Movie's genre can be indicated here, creating a template for Movies of that particular genre.
It is possible to indicate only the beginning of the Genre, using the character"@" at the end of the text. That way, any Program whose genre which starts with the text indicated will meet this criteria.

f) Production
Here the type of Movie Production can be indicated, creating a template for movies with that particular production type.
It is possible to indicate only the beginning of the production type, using the character"@" at the end of the text. That way, any Movie in which the type of production starts with the text indicated will meet this criteria.

g) Franchise
Here the name of a Franchise used in the schedule can be indicated, creating a template for any event exhibited within the Franchise.
It is possible to indicate only the beginning of the Franchise name, using the character "@" at the end of the text. That way, any event exhibited in the Franchise which starts with the text indicated will meet this criteria.

h) Days of the Week
Here one indicates what day of the week this template applies to; if only Saturday and Sunday are indicated, the template will only be used on the weekend schedule.

i) Time
These fields limit the template application to the time slot indicated, meaning that only events between the initial and final hours will use the break model defined.
If not filled in, this template will apply to events at any time.

j) Break Len
These fields limit the template application to breaks with length between the specified limits.

In selecting the template to be used for formating a certain Break, the system uses a priority order, based on the criteria used, to figure out cases in which more than one template's criteria are met. The priorities are as follows: Days of the Week, Title, Series, Franchise, Event Type, Genre, Production, Run, Time and Break Len. Only one template is used to format each break.

Break Model

The Break Model is presented as an orderly sequence of events which should make up the break in the daily cshedule

Each line on the template represents an event to be created in the Daily Schedule, where two special lines will always be present in this list and cannot be modified or removed:

• BREAK- which corresponds to the break space before the program.
• EVENT- which corresponds to the event, movie or program, of the monthly schedule.

Other events can be inserted in any position on the list, as long as the BREAK line is always positioned before the EVENT line.

The buttons Insert and Delete respectively allow insertion or removal of lines on the Break model.

the events on the break model can be edited directly on the list, using popups or through a double-click on the desired cell.

Each event is defined by the following parameters:

a) Event Type

Defines the type of event to be inserted, assuming the following values:

• Promo : on air promotion (Next on, Tonight, etc.)
• InHouse : Production events, e.g.: opening vignetts/censorship/ etc...
• Commercial : specific commercials
• Other : other types of material

b) Event Description

Description of the specific event, used to identify it in the daily schedule, which could be:

• Promo Event Type : NextProgram, Tonight, etc
• InHouse Event Type : Censoring, MovieOpen, BreakOpen, BreakClose, ID, Testmonial, Backstage, MakingOf, etc.

c) House Number

This field specifies the House Number for the event to be inserted in the Daily Schedule. It could contain a specific HouseNumber or a calculated HouseNumber.

Calculated HouseNumbers can be created automatically by the system and are specified in the form of patterns, which define the "format" for a HouseNumber.

Patterns used to identify the format of a HouseNumber correspond to a text with constant characters and placeholders that are substituted by the system in calculating HouseNumbers.

Placeholders in a HouseNumber pattern are contained between the characters "[…]", and are automatically substituted by the system, e.g.: in "AB[XYZ]DEF", the characters "AB…DEF" are constants, whereas "XYZ" is a placeholder and will be substituted by the system for 1 or more characters.

The first character after "[" identifies the placeholder, and the following is a list of placeholders supported by 4C-TV™ and their interpretation:

Placeholder	Descrição
H	is replaced by the program’s house number, obtained from the field [Filmes]HouseNo
N	is replaced by the numeric portion of a program’s house number, with at least 6 digits; the program’s house number is obtained from the field [Filmes]HouseNo
V	is replaced by the first caracter of a program’s version type, like “S” for “Sub”, and is obtained from the field [Trafego]Versao
Sxy	if a program’s version has SAP, then the character “x” is used, otherwise the character “y” is used; the SAP information is obtained from the field [Tráfego]SAP; * the character “y” may be omitted and so if there is no SAP the position will not be used
Axy	if a program’s version Audio is Stereo, then the character “x” is used, otherwise the character “y” is used; the audio information is obtained from the field [Tráfego]Audio; * the character “y” may be omitted and so if the audion is not stereo the position will not be used
R	is replaced by the program’s rating information, obtained from the field [Filmes]Censura
O	is replaced by the channel’s prefix, found in field [Canais]OPECPrefix
P	is replaced by the MovieOpen suffix: OP: HBO Original Production SP: Special Presentation ES: Saturday first run E: First run R : Normal
D	is replaced by the currently selected day number, from variable D_CurDay
W	is replaced by the currently selected weekday abreviation (3 characters), from variable D_CurDay
M	is replaced by the currently selected month number, from variable D_CurDay
Y	is replaced by the currently selected year number, from variable D_CurDay (2 digits year)
YY	is replaced by the currently selected year number, from variable D_CurDay (4 digits year)
#n	is replaced by the next sequence number for table number “n”, with at least 6 digits
U	is replaced by the first caracter of a program’s copy usage, like “M” for “Master”, and is obtained from the field [Trafego]CopyUsage
T	is replaced by the copy code suffix as indicated by a corresponding Registry entry for class TRCopyCode; the Registry entry selected is based on the program's version & copy usage
C	is replaced by the Channel/Department prefix as indicated in a Registry entry for class TRChannelPrefix.

d) Field

In some cases the HouseNumber for the event is defined by a field in the Movie or Version files. In this case, the name of the field containing the event's house number is specified. The values permitted in this field are:

• Rating : field belonging to the Traffic file with a Classification (Censoring) vignette; this option corresponds to the “pattern” : W[V][S2][AE][R]
• MovieOpen : field belonging to the Movie file with a MovieOpen vignette; this option corresponds to the “pattern” : W[P]

e) Default

When a Field for the house number is specified (as seen above), a default value for the event's houseNumber can be specified here, in case the field specified is empty.

f) Length

Standard length for the events, in case it has not been produced yet. If the event specified already exists in the database, the real length of the event will be used in creating the daily schedule. In case it does not exist yet, an estimated length, specified here, is used.