Subtitling & Captioning Services

Subtitling and captioning is one order that produces both caption files for viewers who cannot hear and subtitles for another language. The work goes to subtitlers who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around caption files built to the standard the platform or the regulator requires.

In practice: publishers who have to meet an accessibility duty and reach another language at once. The common thread is that the finished file leaves their hands and is relied on by someone else, so it is checked against the source before delivery and anything uncertain is marked. Most of the work here is for teams with an accessibility requirement to meet, not simply a preference.

Worth asking for: ordering both together means the accessibility version and the translated version ship on the same date. It is easier to set at order stage than to retrofit, and it costs nothing on top of the quoted rate when it is part of the original brief. The same timed file can produce a burned-in version and a sidecar caption file in one order.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What subtitling and captioning involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. A translated caption track is timed separately, because reading speed differs between languages.

Subtitling starts at $11.20 per minute of runtime. The rate follows the runtime of the video, not the number of caption lines the finished file contains. Subtitling and captioning is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available, and the delivery time is confirmed in writing before you pay. Subtitling and captioning is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. Timing is set by hand against the audio, so the schedule follows the real runtime of the video and not an estimate. If a deadline cannot be met you are told at quoting stage, not on the day.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each subtitle file is produced by a person and then played back against the picture by a second reviewer. What gets checked on subtitling and captioning is the detail a viewer would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Every file is played back on screen before release, because a caption that reads correctly can still land on the wrong shot. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.

Yes. NDAs cover every person on the project, uploads and deliveries are encrypted, and nobody outside the assigned team can open your material. Subtitling and captioning often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it.

SRT or VTT for web and streaming, SCC or STL for broadcast, or burned in where a platform strips subtitle files. Caption files are delivered to the standard of the platform you publish on, whether that is SRT, VTT, SCC or STL. The format for subtitling and captioning is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. The target format is confirmed before work starts, because retiming afterwards costs more than getting the specification right first.

Captions carry sound information and speaker labels, while subtitles carry dialogue only, so the two files differ. None of that is left to chance on the day: it is confirmed at quoting stage. Reading speed, line length and line breaks are set to the target standard before the first file is timed.