[Athen] Adding captions to YouTube videos you don't own

[Sean Keegan]

I am going to second Grey's suggestion of Amara.org (http://amara.org/en/).
We had the same situation for a YouTube video in a course and Amara was a
seamless solution.

Take care,
Sean




On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Grey Reavis <sreavis at ncsu.edu> wrote:


> Hi, Adam!

>

> Amara.org provides a free caption editor for online videos.  You just need

> to create an account and have the video's URL to get started.

>

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> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Adam Kosakowski <AKosakowski at clarku.edu>

> wrote:

>

>> Hello wise list-ers!

>>

>> A professor of ours is showing a YouTube video they don’t own and that

>> doesn’t have accurate captioning. We are currently working on a transcript

>> but I definitely want to see if there is any way we can add captions to the

>> video since that is way better than a print-out transcript. I reached out

>> to the video’s poster to ask that they enable community captioning, but

>> haven’t heard back yet. 3PlayMedia can give me access to a Caption Plugin

>> that lets me do exactly this, but that costs however much they charge for a

>> Pro account with them and being a private university we are looking to go

>> as cheap as humanly possible.

>>

>> Any ideas/leads?

>>

>> Best,

>> Adam

>>

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