Amara Community Team
A centralized way to manage your community of contributors within a controlled space. Amara Community is a powerful option that enables higher quality subtitles for your video.
All of your volunteers under one roof
Tap into the social connections of your multilingual fans. Reach new audiences near and far!
Amara Community teams are public-facing so your videos and subtitles will be visible to any Amara user.
If you are interested in a private team contact yt-enterprise@amara.org
Learn How to Manage Your Amara Community Team:
You can choose between your Public and Team workspaces.
Find your team under Teams you manage and click the Go to team link:
You can select the languages that you want subtitled for your videos when you first set up your team, or from the Settings > Subtitle Languages page.
Carefully select your subtitle languages because your team has a limited number of languages
After you save your selected languages, languages cannot be changed
Choose your languages from these language options on Amara
Note: With the basic Amara Community plan, 5 languages are included
Choose how you add videos to your team
Go to your team page> Videos, and then click the Add videos button:
or, connect your YouTube channel in Settings > YouTube Channel
Who can add videos to your team?
The team’s settings determine who can add videos. Admins and owners can always add videos, while managers can do so depending on permissions. Admins and owners can toggle them in Team Settings > Permissions.
If an Amara user has already added a video to the Public Workspace, that video will not automatically show up in your Amara Community team. Please contact yt-communitysupport@amara.org if you have questions about videos from your YouTube channel that have already been added to Amara Public.
You can add multiple videos from Amara and other sites.
Click the Add multiple video URLs tab in the dialog box and enter one URL per line:
Troubleshoot adding videos to your team
Amara doesn't host the videos you add. We only store subtitles and some related data, and play the videos from their source location.
Videos must be embeddable. This means that either they should be a direct link to a HTML5 compatible video, or to a player supported by Amara (like YouTube or Vimeo). If you have the option, whitelist www.amara.org for embedding on the video's source site.
Filter, sort, search, and find all team videos on the Videos tab:
To add a video feed from its hosting site, your Amara Team must be authorized to import videos.
Go to Settings > YouTube Channel to set up automatic video import from YouTube.
When linking your YouTube channel to your team, you can choose to import videos, subtitles, and auto-captions automatically. If all of the videos on your channel are in the same language, you can set your channel language to automatically set video language when you import. You can also choose to export subtitles to YouTube when they are completed on Amara.
After connecting, Amara will import subtitles and video title, description, and thumbnail for all:
Existing public videos
New videos (added after you connect channel)
Please note: Unlisted videos are not automatically imported to Amara. If videos are marked as unlisted on YouTube, our system cannot see them and therefore cannot import them. You can still add these unlisted videos manually by going to Videos > Add a video. You can add multiple video URLs to import videos in bulk.
You can choose how new members join your Amara Community in the main Settings page.
Invite members or accept applications to start building your team of subtitle contributors.
View your current members on the Members tab in your team.
Filter, sort, and, search for members in your team in the Members tab. Click on a member to view their profile, their activity and their languages.
Click the green + button to invite members or review applications.
Visit your team dashboard to find videos to subtitle:
Any team member can start subtitles as soon as a video is added to the team. To view all team videos, click Videos at the top of the page or the Find more videos that need subtitling link below.
Click on the video title to go to the video page and view a list of all subtitles for that video. To view all of the subtitles you have worked on for your team, click the See All link in the history section.
Start new subtitles, edit incomplete subtitles, and view video information and history on a video’s page.
Click on the subtitle language to view complete and incomplete subtitles, edit subtitles, compare revisions, or follow subtitles for updates when changes are made on the subtitle page.
Edit subtitles and view status
Compare two revisions of subtitles
Edit or follow edits to this set of subtitles
View subtitle information and activity
⇓ Change Plan Options or Payment Method
Go to the Subtitle Orders tab in your Amara Community team to order subtitles or to change the number of seats, number of languages, or your payment information.
⇓ YouTube Creator Discounts for Amara On Demand
Creators (6% off)
Creators using Amara Community (12% off)
Exclusive YouTube discount is available only:
With purchase of prepaid bundle, starting at $50
For the languages listed above
With Standard service delivery (see details below)
For videos hosted on YouTube that are public or unlisted
Learn more about Amara On Demand for YouTube Creators
Learn more about importing an exporting with Amara teams. For any questions please email yt-community@amara.org
Thank you for your contributions to support an inclusive and accessible media ecosystem!