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Hi Andres,

Could you please give the URL of the Amara page for the video, or of the English subtitles subpage? It might get you some reviewers via this topic - and it would make it easier to give you more precise advice

However, in general, you could:

1. make sure the subtitles are not marked complete: if they are, enter the editing mode, then remove the check mark for "These subtitles cover the entire video" when you do "Save and Exit";
2. add a reviewing request in a comment to the English subtitles;
3. join an Amara team (full list in http://amara.org/en/teams/) where members can add videos to the team, and add yours to it: I know this can be done in the Captions Requested  and Music Captioning  teams, but maybe in other teams too.
   

 

Hi Andres,

In the description of the original video in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOOueUDwGdg , Stuart Edge (the author) gives his email address, so you could email him directly, asking if he'd add the subtitles made on Amara to his YT video: also those in other languages.

I think your English subtitles are great as they are, and you are right not to use line breaks in Amara, because the YT software is going to introduce its own line breaks anyway. Perhaps just one suggestion re:


"3:26 - 3:30 There's a link in the description where you can donate to help some of the kids that we
3:30 - 3:37 met in this video. Even a dollar can help. So, feel free to go do that as you please. "

Perhaps you might resplit them into 3 subtitles, like this:

There's a link in the description where you can donate
to help some of the kids that we met in this video.
Even a dollar can help. So, feel free to go do that as you please.

Best,

Claude

 

Hi Andres,

There are two main steps for adding Amara-made subtitles to a YouTube video: downloading them from Amara and uploading them to the YouTube video.
There is a http://support.amara.org/solution/articles/10336-how-do-i-manually-add-subtitles-to-youtube- page explaining both processes, but though the info still obtains in general, some of the screenshots are slightly obsolete. So, again:

Downloading subtitles from Amara doesn't require an Amara ID: anyone can do this from the subtitles' subpage - in your case: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/1aoRjq5On7C9/en/605926/ for the English subtitles and http://www.amara.org/en/videos/1aoRjq5On7C9/es/605924/ for the Spanish subtitles - then download them in one of the formats offered when you click on the Download button. All will work on YouTube, but people tend to be more familiar with SRT and SBV.
However, as you'll be corresponding by email with the author, you might offer to send him the subtitle files as attachments, to make things quicker for him.

Uploading subtitles to YouTube is explained in the YouTube "Add captions" help page: more or less the same info as in the second part of the mentioned http://support.amara.org/solution/articles/10336-how-do-i-manually-add-subtitles-to-youtube- page, but without screenshots, and also, being from the horse's mouth, presumably always up-to-date.

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Last thing: as the big banner on top of all Amara pages says, it is also possible to connect a YouTube channel to Amara, so that any subtitle set made on Amara for any video of that channel automatically gets added to the original YouTube video, and for that, you would need to have an Amara account. Big drawback, though: you do not have any control on this transfer. So if a vandal makes a set of vulgar or idiotic etc subtitles on Amara, they'll get automatically transfered too. Therefore, it's a risk to seriously weigh before choosing to do this connection.