# Match formats to categories
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After you have made a captions outputs list, you must identify the procedure to follow to create captions encodes in each MediaLive output. The procedure to follow depends on the *category* that a captions format belongs to. 

1. Consult the table in [Captions categories](categories-captions.md) and find each captions format that you identified. 

1. On the captions outputs list that you created, make a note of the category that each captions option belongs to.