User:Sj/EdX/Video subtitles

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How to set up subtitles on Commons and list them for translation

Add subtitles to videos for use in playback here

0. Upload tools such as video2commons do this automatically if you select 'import subtitles'.

If you can't do that... 1. Create the file TimedText:FILENAME.en.srt with the .srt file.

• Ex: TimedText:Motivation_for_6.002x_(MITx).webm.en.srt

2. Test turning subtitles on while embedding or playing back video.

Prepare the subtitles for translation

1. Create a version of the subtitles for translation. (Todo: fix the webtool on Commons to do this from a URL of the .srt)

• Take auto-generated subtitles (TimedText:FILENAME.en.srt), paste into a new text-file, regexp the file to add (translate) | (/translate) tags around each line.
• Paste the result into FILENAME/srt. Example: Motivation for 6.002x (MITx).webm/srt
• Get a translation admin to flag this file for translation. (talk to Jean-Fred about automating this)

2. Engage translators for the desired target language.

• Point translators to the page you created above: a small "Translate this" link at the top-center of that page leads to the translatetext interface.
• You can track % completion for a given target language from that page.