This page tells you all you need to know to use the Subbit! Platform, to improve the subtitling of audiovisual heritage in a fun way, and contribute to the Subbit! Mission of making television clips from across Europe accessible and usable by many.

Introduction

Welcome to the Subbit! Platform Training.


The Europeana Subtitled Project supports all users interested in cultural heritage by providing automatically generated subtitles in English starting from seven original languages (Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Slovenian and Spanish) of over 25.000 videos.


Through the Subbit! Platform you can contribute to checking and correcting those automatically generated subtitles. Join us in improving the subtitles of Europe’s audiovisual archive and learn how to be a subtitling expert in the process, while you compete with your peers – you will earn points for every video subtitles that you check.


If you would like to know a bit more about the project and how we developed the subtitles take a look at the following two videos, otherwise jump into the training below.


Introduction to the project and its objectives
How we developed the subtitles

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Learning goals

By completing this training you will be able to:

  1. Create an account and start the revision process
  2. Revise the subtitles
  3. Climb the Leaderboard


If you would like to become even more proficient in using Matesub, maybe because you want to use it to generate subtitles for other videos, we offer two optional sections:

  1. Advanced MateSub
  2. Good Practices

For this training you will need:


The training consists of 5 sections. Each section includes short instructional video(s).

1) Create an account and start the revision process

In this section you will learn how to create an account in the Subbit! Platform. Then we will take a look at how to start the subtitling revision process, by selecting a video and starting to work on it. Finally we will see how to enroll into an event.

This includes:


Watch the two demonstration videos below. Feel free to pause the video at any point to try the guidance given yourself and create your account.


Create an account in Subbit! Platform
How to start subtitling (Subbit! Platform)
How to enroll in an event (Subbit! Platform)

2) Revise the subtitles

In this section you will learn how to use a tool called Matesub to perform the actual subtitles correction. The first time you use it you will need to create an account in Matesub.

Watch the demonstration video below. Feel free to pause the video at any point to try the examples given yourself in MateSub. After the video, answer our short question.


How to register an account in Matesub

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How to use MateSub

3) Climb the Leaderboard

In this section you will learn how to complete the revision of the video subtitles and you will also see how you will receive points for each subtitled video that you revise and how you will climb the leaderboard. You will also take a look at other functions of the platform.


Concluding the revision and climbing the leaderboard (Subbit! Platform)
Other functions of the Subbit! Platform

4) Advanced MateSub (optional)

MateSub has a number of advanced functions that will be interesting for you if you plan to become an expert at subtitling. This section will guide you through those advanced functions and will show you the benefits of each one of them.

Watch the demonstration videos below. Feel free to pause the videos at any point to try the examples given yourself in MateSub. After the videos, answer our short question.


Training video 6: MateSub Advanced Features: Header
Training video 7: MateSub Advanced Features: Position, style and colour
Training video 8: MateSub Advanced Features: Merge and split
Training video 9: MateSub Advanced Features: Quality Assurance
Training video 10: MateSub Advanced Features: Timeline

5) Good Practices (optional)

MateSub has a number of advanced functions that will be interesting for you if you plan to become an expert at subtitling. This section will guide you through those advanced functions and will show you the benefits of each one of them.

Watch the demonstration videos below. Feel free to pause the videos at any point to try the examples given yourself in MateSub. After the videos, answer our short question.


Training video 11: Good practices

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