Manage subtitles for VOD media

This guide explains how to add subtitles to the media in your VOD space.

Preamble

• Subtitles for your videos are not destructive to the video itself; it is not altered, it is simply a *.srt file loaded by the Player.

Manage subtitles

To access the subtitle creation tool for your media:

1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
2. Click directly on the name assigned to the relevant product.
3. Click on Media in the left sidebar.
4. Click on Media Management in the left sidebar.
5. Click on the media for which subtitles need to be generated.
6. Click on Edit.
7. Click on the Subtitles tab.
8. Click the Add a language button to choose one of the 3 subtitle generation methods:
   

A. Manual subtitle creation

With this subtitling mode, you manually enter each text that should appear at the specified timecode:

B. Importing a subtitle file

You can import a file of type SubRip (*.srt) or SubViewer (*.sbv and *.sub) to enhance your video with subtitles prepared in advance in a separate file:

The toggle switch button allows you to enable or disable the publication of subtitles on the Player; this notably allows you to check that the content is correct before publishing and sharing the video.

C. Automatically generate subtitles

You can create subtitles directly from the audio available on your media. The texts are generated thanks to artificial intelligence (AI, or computationally or equivalent).

To generate subtitles, click the Generate button:

Automatically translate subtitles

When subtitling exists, you can add an additional language in the same place, by having the text automatically translated (specify the current language), which will generate the appropriate subtitling in the desired language:

Automatically subtitle new videos

The Root folder or subfolders of your VOD space can have rules executed upon any new media addition within them. One of these rules orders the automatic generation of subtitles using the method C above. To set up this rule:

1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
2. Click directly on the name assigned to the relevant product.
3. Click on Media in the left sidebar.
4. Click on Media Management in the left sidebar.
5. Click on Configure on the Root folder or your chosen folder page:
   
6. Click on the Media Processing tab.
7. Check that the processes are not set to be inherited from the Parent folder (or configure the Parent folder directly) then save the changes if necessary (point 10 below).
8. Enable text generation.
9. Configure what should be generated (subtitles, video title, summary/description, as well as any translations depending on the visitor's language).
10. Save the changes: