Multi-language Subtitles

Hi,

I would like to have the option to integrate subtitles, which are not branded into the frame but instead are flexible integrated like the "hd on/off" switch.

these should be multi-language, because I don't want to uplaod the video twice just to have one version for each language and wasting space.
And it would be nice to have to ways to integaret it.
1st to have an editor field to just put in the subtitle time codes and text directly in a vimeo mask/form OR have this as a txt, srt, sva file and just upload it.

sub switch could be like "sub on/off" and then with another branch for checking the language with iso marked "de - for german, en - for english, fr - for french, etc if available.

the supported syntax would be nice to be compatible to the most used subtitle formate like srt or sva etc, but should be simple and feature at least coulours, position and some fonts (bold, italics, underline) in case of doing an own syntax.

greets, Andreas

and perhaps a flash thingy that would allow us to determine how long each line is?

hi phil,

this would be nice, because of the embeded small and larger hd mode in fullscreen. you're right.

and that's why vimeo.com/1326682 I would like to have this feature, because I would like to add some more subtitles with commands and hints during the build up.

greets, Andreas

A while ago I posted a topic like this as well. I'd love to see this as well.
Check out dotsub.com in the meanwhile

hi photo booth works, could you please post the link to your formerthread? would be nice to read what has been posted there.

BTT:
perhaps it would also be a nie feature to combine the sub titlte feature with something for the whole comunity.
If I would like to show a certain part in another video like "did you see xyz in the background?" it would be cool to have some kind of code for the reply box (timecode, massage with limited letters) which will be displayed during the videorun. the owner of the video could alow this and if he allows it this could be some kind of reaction layer, which has to be activated and then show all the integrated remaks.
in worst case it will be a hell of a mess, but that is your (vimeo staff!) task to think of a limit or filter.
in best ways it could be informative AND/OR funny as "Mystery Science Theater 3k" commentating videoclips ;).

just a fast opinion :D

i would massively welcome this subtitling functionality, it would hugely open the content base to a global audience.

AND it would be more user friendly for people hard of hearing (I hope that is the correct name for it, because I just know the German word for it ;))

That would be a good feature indeed.

Still.... you can make your own subtitles with you editing software. Sure, you wouldn´t be able to switch it off, but if you´re aiming for a global audience it´s a solution.

Hi Mose,
why is it useles for you in current form? because you can't hear anything or because you want to use your videos with subtitles?

greets, Andreas

Subtitles must be a MUST for every video site. Vimeo staff, please, do it :) Makes us happy!

It's the only way to really distribute the videos over the world

hi,

youtube supports subtitles now, what about vimeo? ;)

Agreed, I'd like to create subtitles for my videos.

I've been looking for an online video site that supports subtitles for a long time. Google does of course (although the timing is not accurate enough) but the video quality lets it down. Vimeo has the quality and adding subtitle functions will increase it's audience reach massively.

Not only for deaf and hard of hearing viewers but also for foreign language viewers and foreign viewers who know english but might find it difficult to understand when spoken.

We have more than 50 videos coming and all have subs in at least english and german.

We'd love to be able to make them available on Vimeo.

I would love to see some subtitles options on vimeo, maybe also something open to other users (beyond the user that posted the video) allowing them to post subtitles on my movie!

Actually, that would be awesome! Letting other users add subtitles in their language to your movie.

This would be a nice feature! Maybe as a Vimeo Pro option? If the Vimeo crew implements this function one day, it would be great to have an option to import subtitle UTF-8 text files.

While I do not have a need, this is an interesting feature request- I am interested in hearing the staff's thoughts on this.

Hi

Nice to see that more and more users wake up to this requirement, it would be a MUST for me too.

I chose Vimeo for its ease of use, video quality, and quality player. While joining, I was hoping easy and powerful subtitles functionnalities would soon be part of the amazing service Vimeo already offers.

We're waiting for it guys, make us happy :-)

Cheers!

Hi,
I would also like to know what the vimeo admins think about this feature in general and about the implemting side of it.
There are some more thread about subtiles and closed captioning and a lot of people in this thread but no admin replied to it :(

greets, Andreas

I think it's a great idea! I can easily imagine making subs for important videos in Latvian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Russian and English.

+1

I would love that feature. I live a bilingual life here in Canada and it would be great to be able to put subtitles on my videos and not have to upload two different versions every time

Youtube has got it already, so, please, Messieurs developers, keep Vimeo ahead of the curve and think about adding the feature.

Maybe you would consider a two phase approach ?

By playing around with flash players I believe that making them play subs is quite easy. The most difficult part is providing a GUI for entering/editting them.

How about phase 1, make it so you can link to a sub file offsite (and the video plays with the subs on vimeo and embedded).

Phase 2, build a GUI if required with possible multi language/selection support.

They should find a solution like google does, that allows to import subtitles that you generate with other programs. I do this on google and it works really well.

Youtube now provides AUTOMATIC translation (machine translation, thus not perfect, but still...).

Do the Vimeo Wizzards have changed their minds on the importance of this?

Would kick ass.

+1

Super Nice Option
Vimeo staff, please, do it :) Makes me happy!

hi, hmmm, YouTube now experiments with 720p video display. please don't fall back behind them and add subtiles here! :(
hdtvtotal.com/module-pagesetter-viewpub-tid-1-pid-1261.html

A easy solution would be overstream.net.

The video is still hosted at vimeo, and overstream provides the subtitle. But it does not work with vimeo YET.

Which video providers are currently supported?

Currently, Overstream supports the following video providers: YouTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, Dailymotion, Veoh (*) and Megavideo. This list will continue to grow. If you are a video provider who would like to appear in this list and give your users the possibility of overstreaming your videos, please write to integration@overstream.net and get integrated in no time.

i have to quote andreas... you can't let youtube lead the dances! they had interactive buttons and tooltips, they now have subtitles, and they'll also have hd videos, all for free and with no weekly upload cap. come on, staff!

I also want to pressure the Vimeo staff hehe :)

The possiblity to add subtitiles without having to export the video with them included would be HUGE.

Please please please it is a real need we have. Please please please

+1

+100

I'd love to have my upcoming video blog on vimeo, but subtitles are an important detail of my concept. I never thought about vimeo *not* having that feature, so I'm sort of bummed to find this forum thread after searching for a help text how to do it.

I also think that implementing subtitles is fairly easy to do for the programmers, at least compared to all that video decoding/encoding code. It's "just" outputting text in flash, something that is quite simple.
(I do know you don't code a feature like this in your lunch break, but it would be a rather quick effort in relation to its usefulness.)

It might help folks who are hearing impaired as well to have English subtitles or closed captioning options.

Hi, i'm new here. :)
I just wanted to up this request, because i'm searching for the best website for hosting for my upcoming videos, and I'll need multi-subtitles too... I hope this is always on your todo list !!

(and sorry for my bad english ^^)

Yes! I think wee all really need to add subtitles to our videos, what about deaf people?

What a boring discussion here!
Why does not anybody of Vimeo respond to the million requests here and say that they are working on it ?

What about Multi language soundtracks in a video ?

It's not a boring discussion, it's a one way discussion, unfortunally :(.
more soundtracks would also be cool, but I think it's more traffic consuming then just some text files.
but it's also one of my points on the wish list.

+1

(to be able to upload a *.txt subtitle file for any language, at the beginning as a Plus functionality)

Yes please!

+1!
I think its a fantastic and very necessary idea.

Yes, please add this.

This feature would greatly add to usability of Vimeo as an international distribution platform.

I like the idea of a qulity community video page, like vimeo.
but to me as paying plus member the situation looks like the following:
YouTube just added HD (in a quality way)
YouTube just implemented subtitling (multi)
YouTube now has a beta of interactive commenting (nearly the edge of Viddler)
- just to mention some things.

... and its free.
so I am not a friend of throwing everything at such media giant structures. really not.

but please(!) let me know, what paying some dozen bucks for a special ambitious webcommunity is worth, when you can´t do anything of the above in the age of the net? and what a community is worth that doesn´t talk back. so please guys, stop me from migrating! I beg you!

I'm shopping for a site to host my movie and Vimeo Pro seemed to be the right choice EXCEPT for this issue of missing subtitles. Nowadays, subtitled versioning is a basic functionality, more so when the service has a fee. It seems that I have to continue shopping around for a complete service.

multilanguage subtitles would be the only major missing feature, in my opinion (REPLACING VIDEO rules). My films go to 10 different countries, including the Far East, and they are spoken in 5 or 6 different languages... we have the (wo)manpower to translate them, all we need is the platform. do that, and i will be Vimeo Pro PLU$$$ customer.

Andreas, I'll do your French captions if you make German ones for mine (from English)!

If your work is on Google Video or somewhere else, let me know.

akiko i.

blip.tv have this feature! will be awesome to see it on vimeo.

Bonjour Vimeo

Je trouve vos services bien, mais se serait encore bien mieux avec une base multilangues.

Merci à l'avance.

"I'm sort of bummed to find this forum thread, after searching for a help text how to add subtitles..." Couldn't express my feelings better! I just became plus-member but I am very disappointed already :-(
Vimeo just seems soo useless atm. I'm gonna check out the other providers right now.

Any response from Staff would be very much appreciated!

Vimeo is perfect.
If it wasnt for this lacking of capability.
We all want SUBTITLES!!!

I need subtitles too. When it will be released?

I agree even with subtitles on 1 language :)
'couse I'm shooting films on Georgian and want to have an English subs too.. Turnable :)

Is there even 1 response from the Vimeo team to this? It's such a simple feature, even JW Player does it... doesn't even have to be multi-language. But at least one...

Today I had to advise two clients to switch their video hosting from Vimeo to blip.tv because they wanted closed captions and Vimeo doesn't support them.

This makes me terribly sad. Vimeo is in all other respects the best video host around, yet I'm being forced to drag people away from it! "Not for the foreseeable future"? Come on, you're better than that. This is a CORE FEATURE for millions of people.

Vimeo staff - this thread and the others on captioning should surely demonstrate a demand for the service. If they don't, I'm telling you now, amongst my clients there *is* a demand for the service. It's tangible, easily measurable, utterly colossal, and all your rivals are responding to it with conviction. Please, please, let's lose the inertia and do something about this!

If you need our help, just ask.

I got here, because I just add a video of me talking about a photograph studio I am setting myself.

I am one of those who think the world speaks english. so if you want to talk to the world, you have to learn english, period. but not lefting behind our native languages.

so. I made the video, speaking in english (I wish my english was perfect and flawless, but it is not) so I just built subtitles in english (for misunderstanding moments or hearing problem people) and in my language

now I got here trying to learn how to upload subtitles (because I thought a good service as vimeo had this feature) and I found this conversation.

well... seems like the subtitles files will have to be here and waiting for this release.

thanks.

Staff of VIMEO, you could reply on this subject in this being discussed here? I think you could do the work VIMEO at least dotsub. We are expecting a reply from you, until we know whether to migrate to another server with caption.

I'm waiting for subtitle too, should'nt be a be problem to integrate using flash..

COME ON ! :)

I talk in Finnish in all of my videos I make, and are at the moment making English subtitles that are permanent to the video track.

I had some issues with youtube once. The created srt or sub file was out of synk even if the video file was the same when I created the video.

I think that the demand for closed captioning exists as it would benefit everyone in terms of accessibility and search engine optimization. I have been a huge fan of Vimeo, but it looks like I will have to transition to YouTube as the majority of my videos need to be Section 508 compliant due to accessibility requirements at my university. It really is the right thing to do...it would benefit Vimeo...I am surprised at the resistance to closed captioning from Vimeo.

As far as I can see, only a single comment has been made by the staff in this thread - 10 months ago. An update on this issue is needed now. Should we stick to Vimeo and wait for this feature to be implemented – or move to another provider? It would be very helpful to know whether this feature is being planned – or not.

Just to give you an idea of development time, our company created a simple close-caption feature for our player in no time. We simply parse classicSRT file made in a third party app. We even build ourselves a custom close-captioning tool to avoid the third-party tool. Vimeo definitely needs more developers to meet all these requests!

Dalas, there is a force to develop this functionality of VIMEO Legend. Just missing the VIMEO this to be perfect! Please! I have such demands for translation of my videos in English, Spanish, Esperanto, Russian and French. As seen above, many other users are also need this function.

Mr Dalas,
Please listen to our plea. Subtitles are the only thing that is keeping youtube ahead of you. Let's get back to the top, otherwise, as soon as WMG stops busting our balls, the migration is gonna stop.

+1
Yup,
We've been making a half-hour infomentary about a rare disease for the last few months. It would be great to hav it on Vimeo with English/Spanish/French etc subtitles..

Any timefame for when this will be implemented? If not, I'm going to have to check elsewehere..

Houray! Vimeo stuff has answered :)

yea, I would REALLY appreciate subtitles too. Until I quit YouTube today I was using it and know I will miss it.

Well, i'm waiting for this feature since day 1. I think that this is a MUST BE feature, hurry up, youtube have it for a long time.

I think Vimeo is superb. Because of the lack of subtitling possibilities I have to move back to youtube, unfortunately.

Come on folks... get the subtitles sorted.

> A easy solution would be overstream.net.

Overstream.net just added Vimeo support.

we are thinking about becoming plus members. and a subtitling feature would make the decision easy :)
I hope you still got it on your to do list?
Greetings from germany

@staff: Is there a petition I can sign? All I want to do is to be able to upload an .srt or .sub-file to my videos and let people choose subtitle language in the in-video-menu so it's also available in embedded clips. Thanks.

I would also appreciate it if you can add a subtitling feature to vimeo. It's the only thing lacking for me.
Congratulations for everything else.

word

Does anybody know when it will work?
I am devloping a website and really would like to have this information.
Thanks.

this is a no brainer.
it's actually very easy to implement subtitles in the flash player (your moogaloop one).
there is some opensource CC code out there. use it. we need the support of subtitles on vimeo.

We've got the Subtitles into the MOV file we upload, so people can download a subtitled version.
Closed Captioning on the player would be a real help to us.
Our charity and its supporters speak 12 or more languages.
Being able to share captioned videos with them (without having to turn people to the 'dark side') would be amazing.
But even without CC's, the vimeo still blows every other video service clean out of the water!

I think the only thing that keeps me in Youtube is the subtitles feature... unfortunately very needed by me and unfortunately still unsupported by Vimeo (implementing multi-language subs in a Flash video is such an easy thing to do!)

well, this might give some of the developers at vimeo an idea.

i watch japanese series and anime's on internet.

both websites i use to watch online video has soft-sub feature.

one is here. and i am pasting this link here only to give vimeo developers an idea.
j.mp/ccFP39

and other one is here: j.mp/8XXbwf

thanks for reading. and i hope vimeo will support soft subtitles soon.

cheers

Omer

+1000

We want *.srt for upload!

I notice that the request for multi-language subtitle on Vimeo is very old (this forum is 2-years-old). All of our film have srt our txt file attached. Many video sites such as Ytb or Dlmtn have this functionnality. I hope also that Vimeo could do that also.

One year later, I'm still waiting for it...

Really, why is it taking sooooo long?
I love Vimeo for ease of use, but subtitles are necessity for all of our videos. I currently resolve the issue by posting both to Vimeo and YouTube, but will be forced to migrate out of Vimeo if the issue is not resolved really soon!

I would like subtiltles too...
But I'm not sure it is so obvious to do.
Meanwhile, hardcoded subtitles is a working alternative...

We are non-native-English-speakers. Definitely we want this feature. There are other languages in the world other than English. For example Turkish... 300 million people speak this language. We want subtitle feature.
If you can't bring about this feature, at least you can do this: Allow us to replace any video with another one. Thus, we can replace our videos with subtitled ones without loosing the video's web address and statistics. We know, uploading a video without subtitles was a mistake, but let us undo our mistakes.

It would be great!

We are all waiting for features that make vimeo accessible to more viewers!!!

Closed Captions is really a big step, for vimeo to gain more viewers and members!!!

Any news on this?

como cambio la pagina al español por favor.... gracias

Hi,

Do you have news for this feature ?

I think HTML5 with java could do that like in :
people.opera.com/brucel/demo/video/accessible-html5-video-captions.html

And thanks for all the work you have done before for vimeo.

also would appreciate this feature... or to let us group together multiple versions of a video so the viewer can select the language by using a dropdown menu

how old this request might be... I just want to express my wish for subtitles.

Make videos accessible for the hearing impaired.

+1 for subtitles. i would consider going vimeo plus for it. for now, it means i'm sticking to youtube (out of necessity) for my subtitled material.

Same request. I would also redirect my professional workflow entirely on Vimeo (buying a Plus account) once the subtitle feature is added... Please work on it...

Any update? I'm planning to make something big with videos and would love to use Vimeo, but I need subtitles in this thing, so before making decision I have to ask if you got forward with the subtitles thing or it's still just a future plan?

wtf? i was looking ages for the subtitle option.

NEED this for deaf people at least.

Hi.
I belong to a forum that are strongly considering using a Vimeo Plus account as a video base. There is just this little problem, transcripts.

Being an international forum we need to be able to supply subtitles for the videos in various languages, and of course the ability to turn it off. YouTube supply this feature but due to many reasons we would rather use Vimeo instead.

Is there any plans for a near or distant future that this feature will be implemented, in any shape, at all?

Regards Tommie P

+1000 for subtitling.

I'm working on a international site focused on multi-language interviews - and therefore subtitling is a MUST, not a bonus. And I don't wanna stick with crappy youtube quality to be honest... ;-)

So please give us this feature, I'm willing to pay for it as well!

This request is LONG overdue. I really do not understand why the Vimeo team is struggling with such an obvious feature. All of your direct competitors offer subs. What's really the problem here?

Dear Vimeo staff

I still love Vimeo - will always do. Nevertheless for first time I had to put a video on youtube, because they do offer subtitles.

I am aware it might be a complex feature to build. Nevertheless many many of us need it very very much.

Thank you for all your efforts to make your users happy

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WHERE IS THE VIMEO'S
SUBTITLE OPTION????
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More than six months
without subtitles,
Vimeo goodbye!
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I need this.

I agree with almost all of you. I make videotutorials and use Vimeo to put them online... and I would love to have the subtitles feature for showing english/spanish subtitles without having to upload and edit the video twice :)

I know this feature it's not easy to include, cause you need an editor and lots of stuff, but I hope Vimeo has it pretty soon ;)

Good luck!

Wow, just seen that someone from the staff commented on this EXTENSIVELY 2 days ago!! It seems actually quite difficult, so... VERY GOOD LUCK and I love Vimeo and how they keep us informed :)

Could not even imagine that Vimeo does not support subtitles. Very sad news. I hope you will find a solution, since it is a very demanded function.

Blanca, no puedes cambiar esta pagina al espanol, aprende ingles! es el lenguaje internacional.

Vimeo, please let us subtitle our works, its either multiple uploads, which is a loose loose situation because we dont get the full statistic in one place, and you affect your bandwith. Hire a dude to do it, please, if you ever hope to grow this should be one of your priorities, and you still have a chance to make it better than youtube, take the opportunity to have the first decent subtitles option, grow and help us grow

We would also like subtitles too, as we have plenty of multilingual content. Thank you!

Yea I am going to go back to youtube if we can't do subtitles on Vimeo. Shame because I like vimeo's other features more.

you can do it, vimeo!

Yes, this is going to be a very important feature, one that YouTube already offers.

i'm about to start a serie of protrait and i need the multilanguage subtitle option for vimeo, and i don't wanna use youtube. SO PLEASE VIMEO, DO IT ! thanks

+1

Yes I like it

I would like to see this working as well!

We might develop a solution for this soon, as we definitely need this feature.
A quick hack via the browser console shows that its possible to put an html layer above the flash player, and display text in it. I couldn't make the onProgress event listener work, but setting an interval in JS to get the player's current time is possible.
Then one needs a mechanism to properly display text in the new layer, of course loading and parsing the subtitle files too.

This should work fine unless you go to fullscreen mode - so it's a rather poor solution.

But then also, building a flash wrapper for the player and displaying subtitles there is an option too, and this might work for fullscreen as well.

This might not work well with non-Flash / mobile devices, I'm not familiar with how much you can influence the player used to display html5 video tags.

Yes please to subtitles! Some of my viewers are Deaf and would really appreciate it for accesibility reasons.

Not wishing to resurrect an old thread at the ire of the moderators but I myself feel I could do with this feature myself. I too am considering a transition from the incumbent online video provider and naturally begrudge leaving core features, like CC, behind.

A lot of people bemoan the lack of communication from the small Vimeo team but I can tell you; from the mountains of feedback I have given you'd be lucky to receive a reply from others, while here you've been spoilt with two signs from the heavens.

I would suggest employing a poll, maybe have a concurrent one for paying members, bulleting the top most requests. This way you (the crack Vimeo team), and its users, really can see the high level features which can be expected to be developed on.

Please, I need you, can put multiple subtitles in vimeo. Help

Hello Vimeo, so is the subtitles issue going to be solved soon ? It would be very helpful ! Thx

Solution:

vimeo.com/forums/topic:34604

I agree with the rest of the forum, captions would be an excellent addition to Vimeo!

PLEASE, add the subtitles feature!

great idea. +1

Subtitles and/or CC would be really, really appreciated.

Subtitles is the most needed feature for me! Please add it.

Just wondering if any developments behind the scenes have happened regarding this please? YouTube has it, would be good to be able to offer to the Vimeo user market, especially to encourage accessibility for deaf and/or disabled users please?

+1. Can't wait to have the possibility to add subtitles for my international viewers. Thanks Vimeo for working on to make it happen. Don't even know what else to ask... Vimeo is simply great!

HOw long do we need to wait for the subtitles feature like youtube has ?? pleaseee its a very important feature in this globalized world in which a content video should be able to be understood by others in the planet.. pleaseee !!!

I'm thinking on moving to youtube if this feature is not soon available.

I left YouTube in 2008 b/c at the time Vimeo was offering far superior quality, and the option to download the original file. Now YouTube has HD, and the download option as well, and the subtitling/CC option with automatic translation using the Google engine is just awesome, especially since Google Translate has made great strides (at least English to Spanish/French/German) over the past couple of years. Sadly, I have to say goodbye to Vimeo. It's just so much easier to use a script in Vegas to export regions to SRT subtitles than to overlay them with a text generator.

3 years have past and steal no subtitles?? come on! how hard it is to ad a feature that other video server like youtube as!?

need this or switching to youtube

Hello! I too would like to see this feature added to vimeo!

Thanks!

I for one would love to see this feature implemented. In this global community communication at all levels is esential.

I would really need subtitle on Vimeo... *.srt is best.
what's new on this? I cant' believe Vimeo is loosing all this viewers in lack of the first option NEEDED on films: subtitles!!!

This must be added soon

+1 for subtitles

Can't believe this thread is 3 years old, and Vimeo still doesn't have a staff member with the skills to implement a transcript feature.
In 3 years time a lot can happen: a bacheler diploma, a marriage and divorce, buildin 3 houses and the list goes on, but implementing srt-files to Vimeo, oh no, that would be too much asked, especially with all the competition around... (yup, I'm being ironic)

I bet, now the 'good' people at vimeo will delete this thread and pretend it never was here.

any news?

I hope we could use subtitles soon. Vimeo, please, keep going on.

Perhaps there could be some form of collaboration with the guys from the Universal Subtitles project who seem to have a stable and good solution. :) universalsubtitles.org

I join this request too!, subtitle support is the only and most important thing missing in Vimeo. If Youtube and Dailymotion can, why not Vimeo. Why? =(

Yes yes yes! Subtitles would be an immense improvement! As a film producer in Iceland, producing in Icelandic, it would certainly make life easier, to not have to burn the subtitles onto a quicktime file, re-export, re-compress, re-upload … to reach an international audience.

any updates on this, youtubes cc is awesome

1 year after, is there any update on the subtitles?

Thanks

Still no advancement on this request???

Hello there!
Is there any news about being able to add subtitles? I dont want to switch to YouTube and this could be a REALLY useful option for most users.
Thanks!

we want subtitles!!! thanks :-)

How does a video site get this big and not have subtitle options? For that reason alone we would be using YouTube except schools still block YouTube to "protect kids" from more censored speech than which they are exposed to on the playground... but I digress... Subtitles is a must!

Why do you not just partner with universalsubtitles.org/ they clearly have the technology to add titles to your videos (and in a very easy to use way I might add)...

We would also like to be able to add subtitles and multi language subtitles to our videos.

Shame that this isn't implemented yet.

So what's up with this feature? Is it coming soon? It'd be nice to get some update on this ...

Thanxabunch.

I have to move to youtube because Vimeo don't allow me to introduce subtitles... WHAT A PITY!!

So, is the subtitle fuction coming on Vimeo?

I'm brazilian and I NEED subtitles for people understand my videos completely. Could it be just like YouTube subtitles, or something that we could upload .srt files with the subtitles in it, and Vimeo just need to make the videos able to connect the .srt files with the video, just like all the players do.

sadly we are forced to move to youtube because vimeo is missing this feature :(

Hello, is meanwhile something happened?

i would also very much like to have this option, no subs means less views means less web visits means less vimeo

The lack of a subtitle function is the main reason why I have to publish my videos also on another big video portal. I think it is a very important feature and should be prioritized.

People in my videos are talking swedish. You cant understand them. That is sad.

Multilingual subtitles, please!

We're a firm that need to adhere to principles of "universal design", so that also the deaf can enjoy our videos.

It would be great if Vimeo could support subtitles!

You can add closed captions and multilingual subtitles to Vimeo using the 3Play Media captions plugin: 3playmedia.com/interactive/captions-plugin/

I know you can use use lots of cool applications to put layers over the video, but true support would be the best!
I know popcornjs.org tightly integrates with Vimeo, although it has some API disadvantages, because true transcripts and translations work both ways.

Rebuilding Vimeo's interface from scratch is great, but adding support for subtitles would be even better !

The lack of subtitles is basically the only thing that keeps me from getting Vimeo Pro for my upcoming website. I want my videos to be available to everyone so I suppose I will have to look somewhere else for a suiting video platform. Too bad, since Vimeo is great in every other regard.

WE NEED SUBTITLES/CLOSED-CAPTION SUPPORT! (please)

Adding my voice to everybody, I love Vimeo but this lack of subtitles option makes it pretty hard for me who directs mostly films in French and tries to get them out there to the world. I've been burning subtitles in the video for a while but it's really not the best, considering what YouTube has now to offer... for free. I NEED SUBTITLES !

Perhaps not everyone will use subtitles, but those who do use it really need it.

Vimeo is literally useless to me until subtitle options are added. I don't watch videos on it, upload to it, or advise clients to do so.

Hopefully we can get a status update this year...

I would also really need support for subtitles. I just renewed my Plus subscription, but if Vimeo doesn't start supporting subs in the course of 2012, I'll have to switch to the competition.

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Same here, just talked to my site designer to check the cost of switching my whole site from vimeo players to dotsub or universal sub. As an israeli commercial director who starts to work overseas It's crazy to start burning english titles for every work and then upload to vimeo. I understand it's a big step for vimeo, but it's the core of your business. please make the effort! thanks!
yoramiko.com

+1

We also need subtitles in our company. If Vimeo doesn't change we will do so.

have any progress on this subjet?

Sorry there is no reply here.
the issue of subtitles is becoming more and more crucial for my business
I understand vimeo team can't do anything about it. so... sadly
I'm changing the embeded codes in my site to dot sub and and moving out of vimeo.
it's a big fuss and I like the vimeo look and feel much better, but don't see any other solution
yoram
yoramiko.com

+1 for subtitles

+1 for Multi-language Subtitles support on VImeo. Please!

+1 :)

+1ooo !

+1 :)

Hi, i just finished uploading an .mkv file film with one default subtitle track (but with English audio). However, i can't see the subtitles when some-one in the film speaks a non-English language. What could be wrong?

+1 to subtitles.

I want subtitles too, .srt compatibility please! =)

Subtitles needed!!!

I hate to say that but... +1 !
I do realy need these subtitles too.
Please, developpers, add this feature !

I've been following subtitles / caption discussions for a while now. There hasn't been a staff update for a while, any word on the status of the implementation?

An .srt file upload, which seems to be quite a well accepted format, would work perfectly. Even if the display technology changes the uploaded format wouldn't require change. This way you can put out a functioning version quickly, and update it for added compatibility.

We're about to release a new animated film with Dutch dialogue, which will need English subtitles. Burning them into video file is just such a ugly thing to do, especially considering we do expect many of the audience to watch it without.

Please let us know the status, subtitles is a must for an internationally oriented video site and if the feature is close we might be able to continue using vimeo the way we would prefer.

Thanks and kind regards,
Bastiaan

We are working on a 12-Episode docu-series, and are hoping to launch in up to 100 languages, and have a web-version available. .SRT subtitle support would be a very important feature when considering which service to use for this.

We would pay for it.

how about using: universalsubtitles.org ?

I was about to pay for the pro account on vimeo, hoping to put subtitles using a .srt file and there is no option for that AT ALL? in three years this has not been done? c'mon... are you serious?

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Does Vimeo has any forecast for this solution? Our need is the same as all of you, the same as Andreas, the first to write here 3 years ago. The solution now is you tube, but it's really a shame. Please Vimeo, help us!

Adding my voice to the others. Vimeo is a much more sensible platform for high quality content but the absolute lack of support for subtitles is huge problem.

Amara (universal subtitles) is a solution but it doesn't really work with fullscreen videos.

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We've to stop using vimeo PLUS in next month by some reasons one of it is:
Vimeo still don't have SubTitles!
We have to use YouTube...
Vimeo now loosing 21 plus-accounts from our company...
Buy

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Just want to add another voice to the cry for subtitles. We're forced to look for other video service providers when i would rather just keep everything here.

It is very important to be able to have it! A priority!

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Yay! :-D

darn, they dont have this I really needed this. will have to replace vimeo videos with youtube videos instead. yuk!

what's really amazing with youtube is that it can automatically export the file for the language and then you can polish it, have somebody translate it and that's it - would kick ass to have it in vimeo of course.

We thing subtitles would be very helpful to all non-english content providers as we are. They would help us widen our audience and spread our videos. That's why we consider this as top-priority request.

Vimeo, subtitles please!

I also need to add subtitles to content on a Pro account...
YouTube can do it... and can upload multiple files that instantly can be viewed and switched between....

Is anyone paying attention to these posts?

+1, is this really such a space ship? Please just get some sort of support for srt files at least. Such an awesome site, would hate to have and quit my Vimeo+ to move elsewhere just because of this.
Also, About 1 yer ago I could get my soft subtitles imbedded in a .mov file (using .srt and isubtitle) to show in Vimeo (looking like they where hard coded), but now that does not work anymore. Any ideas?

would like to upload a video with .ssa extension
like in video.google.com

+1 ! ........ Vimeo, subtitles please !

Extremly need it too :(

But if it's still not here after a 3 years old request, I guess it will never be...Sick...

Please add support for .srt and .ssa subtitle formats!!!

This is a "must" thing. Vimeo player should support CCing asap.

Subtitles are a genuine need folks. Please try to implement this soon.

Its amazing, in my company we have to put all our videos in youtube because this lack of support for subtitles... PLEASE VIMEO PLEASE... at least answer something... and by the way we have a PRO (JA) account... but again, we dont use it at all!!

.srt support please...

I do also strongly recommend to add .srt supprt to Vimeo.
It is nothing less than a must-have.

Subtitles would be greatly appreciated.

after 4 YEARS it might be the time that you really redefine your priorities and put your best effort on this implementation.

I still consider Vimeo the best service on the Internet (with an even better community), but this thing doesn't play nice for your reputation. Sorry to say that.

This is really a very important feature!

And this can be also better than in other sites: you can not only implement the subtitles but also let people suggest subtitles for other people's videos. The video creator can have an option to allow people suggest subtitles for each video and if the suggestions needs to be approved by him before being available. It would be good also to be able to set in the preferences what's the default subtitles for the new videos.

This new feature can make people interact with Vimeo in new ways:
One producer can ask people to create subtitles for his video in their own language and in this way have subtitles in several languages.
Another one can create a video only with images and music and ask people to make creative subtitles for the video, inclusive allow them to add more than one subtitle for each language. Of course, in this scenario the subtitles description needs to be more than just the language, maybe the creator or some other name.

We have to switch to youtube to support our need for .srt subtitles, which is very sad. You are dropping the ball on this one, vimeo.

After 4 years of useless discussion I am disappointed at the least. The developers wasted a lot of energy to make the interface more bulky and ugly, but still important features like subtitles are missing. Instead they want my money for a PRO account, while I'm doing a service to this platform by publishing HQ non-profit videos FOR FREE. Add the annoying upload limit of 500 MB to the free account (which is rather little concerning the resolution of high quality videos) and other missing features, it is time to move to Youtube. Guys, you failed massively!

I think I switch to youtube. So annoyed with that

Shame Vimeo people are so short-sighted. International community like this MUST have such a feature. Very sad this great platform is obstructed by such a basic issue.

How sad .... I hope this feature for a long time and seen as grown this platform ... I was thrilled when I could see it in Spanish but I find it very sad that there is no interest in this feature that is so necessary.
I thought as youtube took the initiative, vimeo response would not wait .... but nothing happened ...
Do not want to leave here, but I see that if I want to get to other places, I have no other thing to do to migrate ...
At least say when it might be available ....

User with a PRO account, will be using youtube for all subtitled videos into the foreseeable future, unless I can find an easy mac and vimeo friendly way to hardcode subtitles into my videos.

Another +1 for a feature that, while it might not be easy to implement or develop, is a no brainer in terms of its usefulness and functionality. Given the quality of your stuff, I'm hard pressed to imagine what's ahead of this on your development queue.

Well, trying to keep this discussion alive... Was looking into getting a PLUS or PRO account recently and I remembered this 'feature request' discussion from some years ago. When I went looking if this feature would be implemented into at least PLUS or PRO it was not the case. Shame to see that other people do came up with workarounds to make that work and Vimeo is not able to attract a developer for this in all those years.

I really like the community but to make it work the subtitle feature MUST be implemented.

Thanks Matt, do keep us posted - especially if you are able to give us estimated timings at some point.
We are also in a position where we may need to move to another platform soon, because we are required to offer subtitles/captions.

On another note, if you need beta testers let us know.

Hi Matt, any news on the subtitle feature?
We have a short movie in spanish, and since we are able to use Vimeo to offer it in VOD, it is essential to have an option to reach a worldwide audience by actually allowing them to understand what our film is about, we can´t afford to dub it...

Thanks Soxiam, we will look for an alternative meanwhile.

Plus +1 to this feature. ASAP please!

I’ll need vimeo pro very soon. But multi-language subtitles are crucial for my business, so I hope You’ll introduce it soon :) Thumbs on.

We're for you if you need beta testers :)

Waiting for the subtitle options...

We know you are working on this, but please get on with it, we really really need it now! :)

Hi guys,
Do you think it will be avaible before June?
(really need this feature)
Thanks,

Would be great to have this feature on Vimeo!!! :) In fact it is the only reason I still often have to fall back on fucking YouTube.

Waiting for subtitle option!!

What about working on something that is already being develop and has suppor for Vimeo, like Amara ? It's open source and could also help to spread the translation to various languagues.

Link: amara.org/

One more waiting captioning and subtitles, but please, make this feature free!, not only for plus or pro users, if it's possible!...

It seems like you are working on a lot of things at the same time, maybe you could separate them out and release individual features first as a beta and then release additional features as enhancements. It would get people using and testing and it would give you a better picture of how (and how much) people will use subtitles on vimeo.
You could start by releasing srt support, then the UI then auto-generated subtitles...
We'd be happy to help test new features for you.

I've just read your comment to Macmilian Cancer Support above my message. Strong captioning system is nice, but I hope you'll support SRT as well. Cause it's the system used by every other website (youtube, dailymotion, blip and so on) so we are used to it and our SRT files are already ready. We just need the ability to upload them on Vimeo.
If you don't support it, then we'll have to re-do the whole subtitle file in your own system, this would be really annoying to need to have a complete different system just for one website.

Can you give us a little hint? Are we talking about waiting some days, weeks or months longer?

Do you need some beta testers, HINT!

we are all DYING to know if this is really happening ... (aham, and when)