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How to search for subtitles if they were available till the video was on the YouTube, now the video has been removed the subtitles are removed too?
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Thank you for the further explanation, Ali.


Taking an example I know (because I was involved in the subtitling), "Pompeii: Burried Alive":


https://amara.org/en/videos/0p0B0ceB1VdU/info/pompeii-buried-alive/ was create by Dwi Rianto using the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-nifgJUTlg URL, and he, Esther Premkumar and  Istarted making subtitles. Then the YouTube video got deleted, so it no longer worked in the Amara page. 

Later on I found another version of the video in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jijsPvp04. So we added this second URL to the Amara page and made it primary. As there was a difference in timing, we fixed the existintle subtitles, and other people di more subtitles.

Now this second YouTube page has ALSO been deleted, but the subtitles remain: they could be downloaded and used on a desktop (or another online) copy of the video. Or downloaded as TXT if you just want to read the content.


Does that answer your question?


Best,


Claude



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Thank you for your question, Ali.


Please give me a concrete example, with the URL of the Amara page where the subtitles were made.


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Claude

For example, we can search YouTube videos here (https://amara.org/en/videos/watch/). People make subtitles and upload there with the respective video. Those subtitle has noting to do with the YouTube. What if the video gets removed from the YouTube. We can't access the video by searching  the web but what if i still want to get the subtitles as they are not liked with the YouTube. How to get them?

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Thank you for the further explanation, Ali.


Taking an example I know (because I was involved in the subtitling), "Pompeii: Burried Alive":


https://amara.org/en/videos/0p0B0ceB1VdU/info/pompeii-buried-alive/ was create by Dwi Rianto using the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-nifgJUTlg URL, and he, Esther Premkumar and  Istarted making subtitles. Then the YouTube video got deleted, so it no longer worked in the Amara page. 

Later on I found another version of the video in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jijsPvp04. So we added this second URL to the Amara page and made it primary. As there was a difference in timing, we fixed the existintle subtitles, and other people di more subtitles.

Now this second YouTube page has ALSO been deleted, but the subtitles remain: they could be downloaded and used on a desktop (or another online) copy of the video. Or downloaded as TXT if you just want to read the content.


Does that answer your question?


Best,


Claude



 No Sir, I want to know that how to search them. For example, there was Turkish television series "Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?" on YouTube and amara.org had many subtitles of this series in different languages. Now the whole series is not present on the YouTube. How can I search its subtitles of if got removed from here (amara.org) as well ?

Oh I see. Right owners of these Turkish series very often ask for their removals  not only from YouTube, but also from Amara. So unfortunately there is  no way to retrieve the Amara subtitles for these videos.


Sorry about that,


Claude

there is no way you can get back subtitles if you are not an amara member now

Not quite, harryking: Amara members and non members are exactly in the same position as to getting subtitles: if the Amara page is still online, even non members can download existing subtitles. If the Amara page has been deleted, nobody can download them, not even members


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Claude

yeah i got it !thanks claude

Thank you for your reply, harry - and do not hesitate to write further replies: even when they are not entirely accurate, users' answers are useful as indications of what should be explained more clearly.

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same thing happened to me, two of my translations disappeared completely after maintenance, can anyone help how can I get them back? I worked so hard with them to share them in my country :(


Thank you for reporting this, Ronan. If the Amara page was completely deleted at a right's owner request, I'm afraid there is no way to get your subtitles back. But you are mentioning maintenance, which seems different. Can you please indicate the URL of the Amara page?


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Claude

offcourse claude !thanks to you too for solving all our problems i would try to be accurate next time so that no wrong information can passed

thanks to you all but i've found a simple solution myself. as i said the video was removed from youtube but subtitles should be here and they are... you just have to remind the video exact name and search on google like "video_name amara" and the links will come which we can not directly search from the website.

amara should consider having advanced search...

True:   the Google search you describe often works better than searching in  https://amara.org/en/videos/watch/ . But I use both, often: i.e. if the Amara search yields nothing, I check with Google.


Amara search used to have more options (filters). But they were removed due to some glitches.


Best


Claude

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