Defining your categories

To help you decide what categories and values you need, imagine you have several hundred video clips on your computer. How would you label each one to identify it? When you look for these video clips one year from now, what might you be looking for?

Perhaps you film different sports or different disciplines within a sport. For this create a Sport category or a Discipline category with values for each sport or discipline that you work with.

Perhaps you will want to compare video clips filmed from the same angle. That will be much easier if you are able to distinguish clips filmed from the front and ignore those filmed from the side. In this case, you may use the category Camera Angle.

So, what else might you look for? Age group perhaps if you want to compare athletes of a similar age; An Assessment category if you want to be able to distinguish video where a skill is performed well from where it is performed badly.

Once you have replied to these questions, you can create the nomenclature that will allow you to classify and locate your video clips.