Commons:Timed Text

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English: TimedText is a custom Wikimedia Commons namespace to hold closed captioning text, or subtitles, to be associated with other media, such as audio or video files. This page intends to explain of the feature's concept and use.
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Internationalization[edit]

After the subtitles have been transcribed in the original language of the video onto a timed text file, they can be translated into other languages as follows:

  • Open the timed text file in the original language, say English for example TimedText_talk:Elephants_Dream.ogg.en.srt, in edit mode and copy the whole of the page.
  • In the address bar replace "en" with the language code of your choice, say "fr", then paste the original text in the new page.
  • View the original video, then translate the text into your language.
  • After saving the new page, the video with the subtitles should load onto the page; you can view it to check the timing of the subtitles.
  • Add a box with links to the subtitle files onto the timed text talk page for your language, using the template {{closed cap|Video title.ogv}}. Also add a category link to the talk page [[Category:Timed Text in Language Name|Language Name]]. For example, see TimedText_talk:Elephants_Dream.ogg.fr.srt.

Using[edit]

See Commons:Video#Subtitles and closed captioning and Commons talk:Video#TimedText.

Finding videos that need subtitles[edit]

The category Videos needing subtitles groups together all videos on commons for which users or authors have requested transcripts.

Finding[edit]

Commons needs a means to find Timed Text files for specific languages; the following suffer from the Search function's limitations (such as: it does not show all matches; it includes non-matches; it needs regular expression support).

Search including some Timed Text .srt files in different languages:

English • German • French • Portuguese • Russian • Swedish

Other methods to help user find Timed Text:

Creating[edit]

By clicking the [CC] button in the toolbar of the wikimedia html5 media player, you can select subtitles if they are available, or open the Subtitles editor to create subtitles for the video.

To create subtitles from an existing DVD you can use software such as SubRip

To upload an already created subtitle file, open the file on your computer in a text editor (such as Notepad) and copy the text into a new page in the TimedText namespace that matches the filename of the video (e.g. TimedText:Krazy Kat Bugolist 1916 silent.ogv.en.srt). Also see Commons:Video#Subtitles and closed captioning

Keep in mind to paraphrase not spoken sounds and encompass them with rounded brackets. E.g.

 1
 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,400
 (engine sound)

Timed Text talk[edit]

The Timed Text talk namespace is for discussing the respective Timed Text pages, but it could also be used to link and categorize the Timed Text page.

Linking[edit]

This section needs expansion.

How to associate closed captions with multimedia files?

A possible categorization scheme is:

Category:File formats + Category:Media types
                      |
              Category:Timed Text + Category:Legend in German
                                  | 
                          Category:Timed Text in German

                                  + Category:Legend in French
                                  | 
                          Category:Timed Text in French

                                  + Category:Legend in English
                                  | 
                          Category:Timed Text in English

Related categories: Category:Files with closed captioning

Examples[edit]

Timed Text can be used for any media that is presented in a time sequence:

  • Audio file
  • Silent video
  • Spoken video
  • Animation demonstrating a concept or how something works

Actual examples

Maintenance tasks[edit]

Templates[edit]

  • {{closed cap}} displays links to all the closed captioning files available for a file, can be placed on a media page and its talk page
  • Commons:Timed Text/search by lang displays search links for all Timed Text files for a given language, useful for Commons pages, Categories and Talk pages

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Timed_Text&oldid=90927372"