• Introduction
• Introduction
• Concepts
• Overview of Concepts and Terms
• Sef-Hosting or Video Service
• A Hybrid Approach to Online Video
• Advances in Online Video Players
• Categorising and Contextualising Video
• Aggregation of Video
• Useful Online Services
• Miro Community
• Creating Subtitles Online with Amara
• Hands On: WordPress
• Inbuilt Video Features in WordPress
• An Intro to Choosing WordPress Plugins
• Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
• Video Aggregation in Wordpress
• Hand On: Drupal
• Basic Video Embedding Drupal
• Uploading Video Files in Drupal
• Choosing an HTML5 Video Player
• Hybrid Approaches for Video in Drupal
• Video Aggregation in Drupal
• Hand On: Plumi
• Intro to Plumi
• Plumi Video Features
• Installing and Configuring Plumi

Creating Subtitles Online using Amara

Subtitles can open up your video to new audiences. One of the reasons for approaching subtitles in an open way is that it allows your community to get involved in the task of subtitling videos. Subtitles can be a written translation of the video dialogue in a foreign language or a rendering of the dialogue in the original language often targeting viewers who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or have accent recognition problems.

Video Captions Online

Some video sharing systems allow you to play captions and subtitles on top of your video files. Some even let you create or edit subtitles. Below we can see a video with English subtitles selected on the universal subtitler platform Amara.

Starting a new transcript

To start a subtitling a video using Amara, simply go to http://www.amara.org/ and copy and paste the link to your video into the field titled "Add a video"

If someone else has already added subtitles for the video you added, you will be directed to the existing transcript and translations. This way there is no duplication of work.

The video below from the Papuan Voices website has already been translated into many languages. These can be selected in the online video player.

The process of creating subtitles is quite easy and intuitive, and there are step by step instructions on the website.

The work area is shown below.

To add a subtitle, simply start typing in the field below the video player. To start a new title, hit enter (the button you use for line breaks in text documents too).

You can start and stop the video playback with the green button shown in the image above, or use the tab bar on your keyboard.

If you want to save your transcript, but haven't finished it, select "Save and Exit"

More Resources

More help using Amara: There is more help available on using Amara here - http://support.amara.org/support/solutions

Other Ways of Creating SRT Files: There are many tools on the desktop which we can use to create these files. This can be handy if we want to subtitle our files off line.

• Jubler- Mac, LInux, Windows
• Subtitle Workshop - Windows
• Gnome subtitles - Linux
• The pan.do/ra tool Speedtrans - Mac, Linux, Windows
• http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
• http://www.michaelcinquin.com/tools/subtitles