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Expanding video on the entire screen

Hi,

I translated a video from YouTube, and now I can't watch it on full screen. 

Does anybody know this problem?

Here is the link: The video

Thanks,

Meirav

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Hi Meirav,

Thank you for asking this, as other users might have the same issue. There is no way to watch a video with subtitles in full screen with the Amara player. However, there are workarounds:

  • You can zoom with your browser until the player occupies the whole screen (or slightly less): easy but not quite satisfactory.
  • Better but slightly more complicated: you can play the video with your subtitles in full screen in Subtitle-Horse:
    - download the subtitles you made on Amara as an .srt file
    - in http://subtitle-horse.com/, create a subtitling page by inserting the video or YouTube URL in the box for that and clicking Submit (but don't tick open tool fullscreen yet)
    - in the subtitling page, click File, then Import
    - in the importing page, click Browse bottom left to select your downloaded subtites, then click Import.
    - you'll be taken back to the subtitling interface: there, click the fullscreen button with a black rectangle below the player.
Note: you can  save the video with the subtitles on the Subtitle-Horse server: File > Save > Save as SRT, then copy or bookmark the URL that appears. But you can only save it for 4 days. So remember to reopen that URL and resave if you need it for longer.

Anyway, I just did what I described above with your video: so you can now watch it fullscreen from http://subtitle-horse.com/subtitleVideo?m=edit&id=37613&pw=8246&f=srt - for four days ;-)

Claude

 

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