FLM member heiber came up with an idea that seems to get around the YouTube copyright blocks:
I don't remember if I actually tried this technique myself. Since the post was from over 19 months ago I don't know if it would still work, either. You never know for sure what YouTube will decide is a copyright violation until you upload it, so the trick is in uploading it but NOT trying to publish it and NOT deleting it right away. Clever.heiber wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:49 pmNo, it's blocked. You need to upload using an account and in order to upload a video over 15 minutes, you need a verified account. You can upload low quality version of film without publishing it, wait overnight while transcription does its magic, then copy the text. There's other websites that have similar transcription that may be better, but this was my 1st attempt.Night457 wrote:Great! I always want improved subtitles. Is this movie on YouTube? I couldn't find it. Is there a way to use the YouTube audio transcription on a movie that is not actually on YouTube?
Ideally, if the video isn't blocked, you'd use YT's subtitle download button, or maybe something like youtube-dl to just grab the subtitles/closed-captioning so that the file is already in the proper format with the timecodes, then just translate using google, bing, reverso, deepl translate, etc. and I'd guess be done quickly. If blocked, although you can view the words and timecodes, you can't download it in that format, but you can view/copy just the raw text without the timecodes and manually input using subtitle edit.
In order to avoid strikes to their actual YouTube account, a very sneaky person would set up a fake email account, use it to create a fake YouTube account, and verify that YouTube account using a free fake phone number service that accepts texts. It was that last step that I never managed to accomplish.