Where do I see if another's youtube channel is linked to Amara?
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Fredze
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over 10 years ago
Hey there,
I'm pretty new to Amara. After reading the FAQs there is one question remaining.
Is there a way to see, if another's Youtube channel is linked to Amara? Personally I'd like to know if my subtitles appear on Youtube itself - before translating.
Can you help me? Thanks Fredze
PS: My mothertongue is German, not English. Sorry for any mistakes.
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Claude Almansi
said
over 10 years ago
Thank you for this important question, Fredze. The theoretical answer is in the Syncing to YouTube tutorial of this Amara support, which says:
"Amara invites your viewers to subtitle by adding your [Amara] video's URL to its YouTube description and appending a final subtitle (if space allows)."
followed by a screenshot of a YT video where the last subtitle says: "Subtitles by the Amara.org Community" and the description says "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org" + a universalsubtitles.org URL because universalsubtitles.org was the URL of Amara when the screenshot was made in February 2012 (now the message in the description mentions the amara.org URL of the subtitling page).
So in theory, you can go to the "URLs" tab of the Amara page, open the YT URL mentioned there and see if the "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org ...." message shows in the description of the YT original.
The owner of the video can delete the message in the description and, now that YT has enabled subtitle editing, also the one in the last subtitle. Many do because they did the syncing without realizing they would be added.
As Jules Rincon, who was in charge of this support forum before me, explained in another topic, there is also a different syncing to YouTube for Amara teams, which doesn't add these messages to the original videos.
Lastly, owners of a YT channel can also create Amara subtitling pages for single videos without doing the syncing, then manually download the Amara subtitles and add them to the original, and this, of course, does not add these messages either.
So there is no 100% sure way to know if subtitles made on Amara are being reused in the original video but still, checking the original video's description is worth trying.
Update: I've now created a ticket #73637 from your topic, Fredze: you should have received a notification about it. I did that because tickets go to Amara staff, who can give you a more authoritative reply than me.
Thank you for this important question, Fredze. The theoretical answer is in the Syncing to YouTube tutorial of this Amara support, which says:
"Amara invites your viewers to subtitle by adding your [Amara] video's URL to its YouTube description and appending a final subtitle (if space allows)."
followed by a screenshot of a YT video where the last subtitle says: "Subtitles by the Amara.org Community" and the description says "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org" + a universalsubtitles.org URL because universalsubtitles.org was the URL of Amara when the screenshot was made in February 2012 (now the message in the description mentions the amara.org URL of the subtitling page).
So in theory, you can go to the "URLs" tab of the Amara page, open the YT URL mentioned there and see if the "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org ...." message shows in the description of the YT original.
The owner of the video can delete the message in the description and, now that YT has enabled subtitle editing, also the one in the last subtitle. Many do because they did the syncing without realizing they would be added.
As Jules Rincon, who was in charge of this support forum before me, explained in another topic, there is also a different syncing to YouTube for Amara teams, which doesn't add these messages to the original videos.
Lastly, owners of a YT channel can also create Amara subtitling pages for single videos without doing the syncing, then manually download the Amara subtitles and add them to the original, and this, of course, does not add these messages either.
So there is no 100% sure way to know if subtitles made on Amara are being reused in the original video but still, checking the original video's description is worth trying.
Update: I've now created a ticket #73637 from your topic, Fredze: you should have received a notification about it. I did that because tickets go to Amara staff, who can give you a more authoritative reply than me.
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Fredze
said
over 10 years ago
Hello Claude,
thanks for your detailed information! Your answer helped a lot :)
I watched out for the ""Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org"-phrase but also noticed, that the syncing worked with videos, that didn't mentioned Amara in the description. Thank you also for creating a ticket, I recieved the notification-mail.
Have a nice Sunday Fredze
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otis jame
said
over 1 year ago
You can view if another's YouTube channel is linked to Amara by going to
the "URLs" tab of the Amara page, opening the YT URL mentioned there
and seeing if the "Help us caption and translate this video on
Amara.org" message shows in the description of the YT original.
Additionally, the owner of the video can delete the message in the
description and, now that YT has enabled subtitle editing, also the one
in the last subtitle, so there is no 100% sure way to know if subtitles
made on Amara are being reused in the original video but still, checking
the original video's description is worth trying. wordle
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Claude Almansi
said
over 1 year ago
Thank you for this accurate and detailed explanation, Otis.
Fredze
Hey there,
I'm pretty new to Amara. After reading the FAQs there is one question remaining.
Is there a way to see, if another's Youtube channel is linked to Amara? Personally I'd like to know if my subtitles appear on Youtube itself - before translating.
Can you help me?
Thanks
Fredze
PS: My mothertongue is German, not English. Sorry for any mistakes.
Thank you for this important question, Fredze. The theoretical answer is in the Syncing to YouTube tutorial of this Amara support, which says:
"Amara invites your viewers to subtitle by adding your [Amara] video's URL to its YouTube description and appending a final subtitle (if space allows)."
followed by a screenshot of a YT video where the last subtitle says: "Subtitles by the Amara.org Community" and the description says "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org" + a universalsubtitles.org URL because universalsubtitles.org was the URL of Amara when the screenshot was made in February 2012 (now the message in the description mentions the amara.org URL of the subtitling page).
So in theory, you can go to the "URLs" tab of the Amara page, open the YT URL mentioned there and see if the "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org ...." message shows in the description of the YT original.
It often works: a Google video search for these words yields "About 3,030,000 results" presently. However:
So there is no 100% sure way to know if subtitles made on Amara are being reused in the original video but still, checking the original video's description is worth trying.
Update: I've now created a ticket #73637 from your topic, Fredze: you should have received a notification about it. I did that because tickets go to Amara staff, who can give you a more authoritative reply than me.
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Thank you for this important question, Fredze. The theoretical answer is in the Syncing to YouTube tutorial of this Amara support, which says:
"Amara invites your viewers to subtitle by adding your [Amara] video's URL to its YouTube description and appending a final subtitle (if space allows)."
followed by a screenshot of a YT video where the last subtitle says: "Subtitles by the Amara.org Community" and the description says "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org" + a universalsubtitles.org URL because universalsubtitles.org was the URL of Amara when the screenshot was made in February 2012 (now the message in the description mentions the amara.org URL of the subtitling page).
So in theory, you can go to the "URLs" tab of the Amara page, open the YT URL mentioned there and see if the "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org ...." message shows in the description of the YT original.
It often works: a Google video search for these words yields "About 3,030,000 results" presently. However:
So there is no 100% sure way to know if subtitles made on Amara are being reused in the original video but still, checking the original video's description is worth trying.
Update: I've now created a ticket #73637 from your topic, Fredze: you should have received a notification about it. I did that because tickets go to Amara staff, who can give you a more authoritative reply than me.
Fredze
Hello Claude,
thanks for your detailed information!
Your answer helped a lot :)
I watched out for the ""Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org"-phrase but also noticed, that the syncing worked with videos, that didn't mentioned Amara in the description.
Thank you also for creating a ticket, I recieved the notification-mail.
Have a nice Sunday
Fredze
otis jame
You can view if another's YouTube channel is linked to Amara by going to the "URLs" tab of the Amara page, opening the YT URL mentioned there and seeing if the "Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org" message shows in the description of the YT original. Additionally, the owner of the video can delete the message in the description and, now that YT has enabled subtitle editing, also the one in the last subtitle, so there is no 100% sure way to know if subtitles made on Amara are being reused in the original video but still, checking the original video's description is worth trying. wordle
Claude Almansi
Thank you for this accurate and detailed explanation, Otis.
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