Publish your multilingual video project

Summary

Once your languages, subtitles, and voiceovers are ready, the final step is making them visible to viewers. On alugha that means publishing each piece of content — audio, subtitles, and the project itself — from the dubbr’s PROJECT STATUS tab.

Published, available, not created

Every piece of content on a project has one of three states:

published (teal badge) — live to viewers. The alugha player serves it.
available (teal badge) — ready and correct, but not yet live. Click Publish All to push it.
not created (grey badge) — does not exist on the project yet — create it first (transcript, subtitles, etc.).

Audio and subtitles have separate publish states, so you can ship the German audio while the German subtitles are still being polished. For the full state model and how language-level Playable/Private/Hidden interacts with it, see Understand published vs. available content.

Prerequisites

Before you publish:

At least one language with available content — run Speech-To-Text, Translation, or Text-To-Speech as needed.
The project-level STATE should already be set correctly (Public, Unlisted, or Private). See Set video visibility and privacy if you need to change it.
An idea of which languages you want to publish now vs. hold back.

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Open the PROJECT tab

Open the video in the dubbr (My archive → EDIT). Click the PROJECT tab at the top of the language tabs row — this is where the publish controls live, not on an individual language tab.

2. Review PROJECT STATUS

The PROJECT STATUS section shows a quick overview plus a table of every language with its publish state:

Next Steps banner (gradient, top) — suggests the single most useful action right now (for example “Next Steps: add German (deu) closed captions”). Click Add now to jump to it, or Show all tasks to expand the full list.
Filter chips — published, available, not created. Click to focus on a single state.
Language table — one row per language with columns LANGUAGE CODE / AUDIO / SUBTITLES / CC / TITLE. Each cell shows the state for that track.

Languages at the top show the default track; newer tracks appear below. You can see at a glance which languages have published audio, which ones still have work pending, and which are fully live.

alugha dubbr PROJECT STATUS panel with Next Steps banner, published and available filter chips, DEU ENG CMN ZHO language matrix across AUDIO SUBTITLES CC columns, and Publish All button to publish multilingual video project

3. Publish available content

Below the language table you see Publish available content with an available badge and a Publish All button (the number in parentheses shows how many items can be published). Click Publish All to push every available track — audio and subtitles across every language — live in one click.

If you want to publish only some items (for example just the English audio but not the German subtitles), leave Publish All alone and publish from the Next Steps banner or the per-language controls instead — Publish All is all-or-nothing for available items.

4. (Optional) Adjust project-level settings

Right of the language table the dubbr shows project-level settings that apply across all languages:

STATE — Public, Unlisted, or Private. Controls who can watch. Details in Set video visibility and privacy.
YOUTH PROTECTION — default Unlocked. Lock the video behind an age gate for sensitive content.
LICENSES — default Default alugha License. Toggle This project contains product placements if applicable.
PROJECT PAGE — toggles for Hide comments section and Hide insights section.
EMBEDDING — Prevent this video from being embedded if you want to block embed codes entirely.
REPLACE VIDEO — swap the underlying video file without starting over (preserves metadata, translations, and subtitles).

None of these block publish — you can publish first and adjust later, or lock them down before going live.

alugha dubbr PROJECT STATUS tab with right sidebar showing STATE Public, YOUTH PROTECTION Unlocked, LICENSES Default alugha License, PROJECT PAGE toggles, EMBEDDING toggle, and REPLACE VIDEO button to publish multilingual video project

What happens next

Every track you just pushed flips from available to published — the language table updates in place, no refresh needed. Viewers on alugha.com (and on your embeds) can now switch to those languages in the player’s language picker.

Share the link so people can watch — see Share your video with a link or QR code. Or grab the embed code to drop the video into your own site — see Embed your multilingual video.

Good to know

No credits — publishing is free. Credits only apply to AI actions (STT, Translation, TTS).
Audio and subtitles publish independently. You can ship a language with subtitles only, audio only, or both.
Publish All is all-or-nothing for available content. For selective publishing, use the Next Steps banner or per-track controls.
Languages created by Add A New Language start as available — they need explicit publishing. The default track’s audio is often published from the moment of upload.
Unpublishing an item is possible — set its language-level STATE to Private or Hidden (see Edit title, description, tags, and thumbnails for each language).
The Next Steps banner is a useful shortcut but optional — you do not have to follow it to publish.

Troubleshooting

Publish All is greyed out or shows (0):

No items are currently available — everything is either already published or not created.
Create the missing content first (run STT, Translation, TTS, or Copy Dub To Subs) — it will flip to available once ready.

I published but viewers still do not see the language:

Check the language-level STATE on each language tab. If STATE is Private or Hidden, the language stays off the player even when published.
Check the project-level STATE (Public / Unlisted / Private). A Private project is not viewable regardless of what you published — see Set video visibility and privacy.
Clear the browser cache or open the video in an incognito window — CDN caching can delay the change for a minute or two.

Publish All ran but some items are still available:

Those items were not created when you clicked — Publish All only pushes content that was already available. Run the missing step and click again.
Reload the PROJECT tab to force a fresh state read.

I want to unpublish one language without disabling the others:

Open that language’s tab and set its STATE to Private or Hidden (see Edit title, description, tags, and thumbnails for each language). That removes it from viewers without touching other languages.

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