[HacktionLab] mutli-language subtitles for online video

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tl;dr: Looking for ways to publish a video online with multi-language 
subtitles that cannot be edited by random people and that is easy to 
embed on various cms by people with no technical knowledge beyond 
writing a blog.



Hi all,

I will soon publish a video which has been translated into several 
languages and am currently looking at how to do that in a smart way.

Ideally, we would want to be able to easily embed the video with a drop 
down to select languages, even better if there is a way to define the 
default language for each embed.

We're hoping that the video will be embedded on a whole range of sites 
and blogs, so easy embed codes would be a definite bonus.


For translating the titles, we have been using http://www.amara.org/en/

It's a great tool and fairly user friendly, anyone can make a login and 
edit the titles. But there is a hitch: As far as I can tell, there is no 
way to lock down subtitles and stop them from being changed further. 
While it does have versioning, rolling back a new version seems to undo 
the syncing and set the video back.

This is a serious issue for us, as the video has a good chance of 
attracting racist trolls. A previous video on the same issue attracted a 
lot of vile comments on youtube.

While for the translation stage, it's great that anyone can create a 
login and edit videos, not being able to lock titles once they are 
finished means we risk that people will purposefully mess up the 
existing titles.

There seems to be a way to define an editing team on the paid version, 
but they don't quote any pricing and my email hasn't gotten any response 
yet.

Do any of you have ideas or suggestions for providing multi-language 
subtitles for online videos?

Any tips and input will be muchly appreciated.

Thanks,
mara



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below or get in touch. We'll release the online version on 21. April and 
are looking for websites and blogs who want to embed the film on that date.

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