Participatory Culture Foundation

Hi Jo Clark

Thank you for your interest in Amara.

Amara can be used to caption private videos, but as an Amara Enterprise, paying, solution. As Margarita Shamraeva explained to Qin Qin in the Can Amara subtitle system be used in Udemy online course platform? discussion, also about captioning private videos:

"Please feel very welcome to fill out the form at http://pro.amara.org/choose-enterprise. Our staff will reach out to you and explain in detail what options are available for organizing and coordinating crowdsourced subtitling and how they can help you reach your goals."

 

Nevertheless, you can use the general, free version of Amara to subtitle YouTube unlisted videos. However, the problem would be that while unlisted YouTube videos are not indexed by search engines, Amara pages created from them are indexed, and so show up e.g. in Google search results.

I hope this helps.

Best,

Claude Almansi

PS See Update Oct 14 2020 in reply below

Bonjour, Drissia

Si on met 'Iss Pyaar' (sans guillemets) dans le moteur de recherche de la page des vidéos présentes sur Amara, http://www.amara.org/videos/watch/, on arrive à une liste de 45 résultats . Mais dans beaucoup de cas, la vidéo YouTube qui devrait être montrée a été bloquée pour violation de droit d'auteur.

Toutefois sur YouTube, il y a une playlist "Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?" de 269 vidéos, créée par starplus. Et starplus semble l'ayant-droit pour ces vidéos: en tout cas, elles ne sont pas bloquées.

Alors, ce que vous pouvez faire, c'est de prendre l'URL de ces vidéos qui marchent sur YouTube et les insérer dans la page "Sous-titre une vidéo" d'Amara - http://www.amara.org/fr/videos/create/ - l'une après l'autre. Ceci produira des pages vidéos Amara qui marchent, et que vous et d'autres pourrez sous-titrer.

Cordialement,

Claude Almansi

(English summary: Drissia asked how to find the instalments of the "Iss pyaar kokya naam doon 2012 motarjim" series. My reply: via the search engine of http://www.amara.org/videos/watch/ , you can get 45 Amara pages, but in most the video doesn't work because it was blocked on YouTube for copyright violation. However, the 269 videos of the "Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?playlist "  created by starplus are not blocke. So their URLs could be used to create Amara video pages from 

http://www.amara.org/fr/videos/create/)

 

Update Oct 14 2020

In my reply to Jo Clark,  the link in

"Please feel very welcome to fill out the form at http://pro.amara.org/choose-enterprise.  Our staff will reach out to you and explain in detail what options are  available for organizing and coordinating crowdsourced subtitling and  how they can help you reach your goals."

no longer works.

Please go instead to https://amara.org/en/subtitling-platform/, then

• under Enterprise Platform, click on the Get started button
• choose one of the solutions offered and click on its Sign Up button
• fill the form that will appear.