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Until recently, when you reached stage 3 "Edit video information", the existing video info streamed from the original video would show, and you could modify it. But when I did the English subtitles for "Lynne Dawson sings Ralph Vaughan Williams's "The lark in the clear air", the Title and Description fields of stage 3 were empty, so I filled them again. And now this information appears twice in the English subtitles transcript, as wll as once in the left column.

A bit redundant. Isn't there a way to have that video info appearing only once in the left column? Formerly,  editing the video title was separated from subtitling.Maybe it was more logical.

Same double info issue with videos where the info of the original video WAS streamed to the editing widget, whethe it was changed there or left untouched:

• universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/0VxB34Sg7534/en/307111 (the English subtitles track of "J.S. Bach - Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip ")
• universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/lq639eCocfGg/en/306944 (the English subtitles track of "G is for Gouldberg ")
• universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/4vd8sEjpLN1d/en/306070 (the English subtitles track of "Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor - Jacques Offenbach Can Can [Maestro] ")
• universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/nv1nEWrqBUGk/en/14876 (the English subtitles track of "Pigs in a Polka (1943) " - but same issue also with its Dutch,  Portuguese, Brazilian, and Romanian subtitle tracks that haven't been edited after their importation together with the video from YouTube

Etc. In the videos I've subtitled or imported with subtitles to Amara, this double description issue appears for the 1st time in the Italian subtitles of  Alessia Nera: OFF TRACK #1 - Primi passi con l'editor Google Docs (versione audio), made on 01/27/2011.
Therefore actually, the problem does not seem caused by the change to editing the video info in the video: in the Correcting the title of a translated version  discussion of the former Amara help forum at tenderapp.com (1), on November 16, 2011 , Margarita Shamraeva was still explaining how to change the video title by clicking the Edit Title button to the right of the title in the info page of a video, in the former manner.
So, what causes this double info and can you fix it?


(1) The discussion is archived in webcitation.org/678SQs6gN, in case the tenderapp.com forum disappears without getting imported here.