The Subtitle Editor¶

The subtitle editor is one of the larger features of amara. It’s implemented using several components in a couple different areas:

The view subtitles.views.subtitle_editor serves up the page

The page runs javascript that lives in media/src/js/subtitle-editor

We save subtitles using the API code (currently in a private repository, but we plan to merge it in to the main one soon)

The Experimental Editor¶

To test out large changes to the editor, we use the experimental editor. This means loading different JS/CSS for the editor. Here’s how to develop for it:

Put your code in the experimental-editor branch

Once you’re it’s ready to be used, run the build_experimental_editor management command from that branch. Note that you need access to AWS to run this, maybe the simplest way to do this is using amarashell on ops.pculture.io

Do a regular Amara deploy to finish the job

Once the code is ready to be merged into the main editor, just merge the branch as usual

Note that this does not affect the CSS. If you need to make a change in the HTML, then you need to put the code in dev. You can use the experimental template variable to vary the HTML.