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How do you request a video be subtitled?

I wanted Yes Men Fix the World to be subtitled, how do you do that?

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Please give me the URL of the Amara page for it, and I'll add it to the Captions Requested team.

Best,

Claude

 

I want to give my foreign students instructions about how to request subtitles. I can't figure out how to do that. How can they request subtitles?

Hi Lily,

Your students can create an account on Amara.org, join the Captions Requested team. Then in its "Videos" subpage, they can click on the "Add Video" tab to add the video they want subtitled to the team.

Team members will get an email notification that there are new video/s ready for subtitling.As there are over 3'200 team members, often the video gets subtitled, but not always. So your students could also share the link to the relevant Amara pages via social networks, asking for their friends' collaboration.

However, in my experience as a foreign language teacher, I've found that students often really enjoy making the subtitles themselves, collaborating in small groups if the video is a bit too long for one single person.

Lastly, there is Amara's paying Professional Solutions option, if your school can pay for it.

Best,

Claude

 

@Claude Almansi  Sprunki


Thanks for the detailed guidance on using Amara! I have a few questions related to the process:


1. For students adding videos in the "Captions Requested" team, is there a specific approval process, or do the videos go live immediately for the team to see?

2. How can we track which team members have contributed to subtitling a particular video? This would be useful for student assessments or project tracking.

3. Do you have any tips for managing group collaborations on longer videos within Amara? Are there any tools or workflows you've found effective?


Thanks again for sharing your experience!

@ Claude Almansi

Thanks for the detailed guidance on using Amara! I have a few questions related to the process:


1. For students adding videos in the "Captions Requested" team, is there a specific approval process, or do the videos go live immediately for the team to see?

2. How can we track which team members have contributed to subtitling a particular video? This would be useful for student assessments or project tracking.

3. Do you have any tips for managing group collaborations on longer videos within Amara? Are there any tools or workflows you've found effective?


Thanks again for sharing your experience!

Thank you for your message, SallySidney. About Captions Requested:

  1. There is no specific approval process. The team can view videos with subtitles, not only completed, but also in progress
  2. Contributions by each subtitler can be tracked in the revision history of each video.
  3. For the transcription phase in long videos, I  have advised subtitlers to add the time reached in the last subtitle they made in their subtitling session. This way, the next person could easily start where the former left off. Not sure if this is still necessary. Another trick is to alternate transcription and synchronizing part by part.

More in general, if you do team work on public Amara videos, it is useful to have an external discussion group where you can discuss workflows and possible issues.


Best,

Claude

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