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Subtitling services

Professional Subtitling Services

At Andiamo, our professional subtitling services are a critical extension of our clients’ businesses, whether to support their marketing, employee training, or the creation of products and services.

These services, which cover both subtitling and closed captioning, ensure that your video’s message can be understood by non-native speakers both in your country, and in the international territories you trade in.

In a world where 85% of people consume social media content without sound, subtitles and closed captions play a key role in the effectiveness of your marketing. Though, whatever the application of your video content, our services can help to increase views, achieve longer watch times, optimise your video content for search, and improve engagement.

Subtitling services

My project with Andiamo was a smooth process, it was professionally handled, good communication and delivered on time. I'll be looking to come back again for my next subtitling project.

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Our 17-minute induction film was fully translated into our selected languages by Andiamo, who not only provided an excellent translation service, but also the vtt file, which made it extremely easy for us to overlay onto our Induction Film. Andiamo! were amazingly easy to deal with. It was as easy as supplying the original film and instructions on what languages we wanted, and we had a quote within 24 hours. Once we placed the order, the work was completed within one week to an extremely high standard. I would recommend Andiamo! to anyone who has a translation/subtitling requirement, as they offer a high quality, efficient service, at a very reasonable price.

Andiamo! has an excellent subtitling team and provides all sorts of services from beginning to end: transcription, time-coded file, translation and burn-in of the subtitles or delivery of .vtt files, depending on our needs.

Closed captioning

Subtitles vs closed captions

Subtitles are video captions that display translations of your video’s dialogue in a written format, and are intended to help viewers who can hear the audio but cannot understand what’s being said.

Closed captions display the video dialogue, as well as atmospherics such as “[door slamming”], “[applause]” etc, and are used to support viewers with hearing problems, and to improve comprehension for hearing people. They’re usually in the video’s original source language, but not always.

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Our subtitling services

Our subtitling team provide accurate, high-quality closed captioning and subtitling services for:

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Subtitling services

Easing the challenges of subtitling

Preparing for subtitle success

  • If your organisation doesn’t already have an accurate, time coded transcript of your source language video script, we can take care of this critical and time-consuming process on your behalf, to ensure that your translated subtitles align with the source language content and appear on screen at the right time.

Linguistic skills and experience

  • Our subtitling services provide you with skilled translators experienced in rewording or omitting content as required, to offer accurate translations that fall within the established subtitle character restrictions of scripts like Latin, Cyrillic, Japanese, and Chinese.
  • We can also provide a subtitling localisation service, to ensure your translated subtitles are culturally appropriate for your target territories.
  • Our experience translating right-to-left languages, like Hebrew and Arabic, offers you the assurance that subtitles in these languages display correctly in the video.
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Subtitling services you can trust

  • No need to worry about the readability of your subtitles, when they break, and the consistency of style, our skilled subtitling team have got you covered.
  • Beyond linguistic skill and subtitling experience, providing burnt-in subtitles requires specialised software, in which our team are experienced users.

End-to-end management and timely completion

  • While AI solutions are often not suitable for commercial use without a thorough post-edit from a skilled human translator, and managing freelance translators can be a difficult and time-consuming process, our fully-managed subtitling services free your team to focus on the important work they do.
  • You can count on your Andiamo! project manager to keep your project on track and on time.

Contact us today to request a quote for your subtitling project.

Foreign language subtitling and transcription service

What do our subtitling services look like?

  1. We create a transcription of your source language script, complete with timecodes, and check the transcription against the video to ensure the accuracy of the script and timecodes. Alternatively, If you are able to supply a prepared script, upon hiring our subtitling services, we check the accuracy of your script and check or provide timecodes.
  2. Our team imports the transcription into our translation software, creates translations into your target languages, conducting localisation if required, and ensures that language-specific subtitle character restrictions are applied.
  3. We then send you a bilingual review file and await your clearance or amends. Small, sensible changes are applied at no additional charge.
  4. When you’re happy with the translations, we load them back into our software to create burnt-in video subtitles, or export your subtitle file. When working with burnt-in subtitles, we follow typesetting rules to ensure subtitles are displayed attractively, are broken up in a natural semantic place, and don’t cover visual elements.
  5. We action your amends if required and send the final fine in one of the following formats: High-res MP4 video with burnt-in subtitles, SRT file, WebVTT file, CSV file. Amends made after files are delivered are applied at an additional charge.

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Closed captioning service

Our closed captioning & transcription services

Our subtitling services also cover both source and foreign language closed captioning and transcription. Where closed captions are time coded captions containing video dialogue and atmospherics, transcriptions are time coded video scripts perfect for voice overs, your reference, and future content creation (blogs, social media posts, landing pages etc).

Like our subtitles, we provide closed captions as MP4 videos with burnt-in subtitles, and as SRT files which you can add to your video on your end. We deliver transcriptions as .txt, .csv or .prtranscript files.

The cost of our foreign language CC’s reflects the additional translation process not required for source language closed captioning. Similarly, quotations for foreign language transcriptions reflect an additional cost for a native speaking translator to review and correct the target language transcription we generate.

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Why Andiamo?

Andiamo has been supporting businesses like yours with translation, interpreting, typesetting, and subtitling services for over 30 years.

Our skilled team specialise in supporting organisations in technical industries, like engineering, automotive and manufacturing, the medical sector, marketing, tourism and beyond.

We’re an ISO 17100:2015 accredited LSP, have a number of sector-specific ISO certifications, and are audited internally and externally to maintain our ISO standards and demonstrate our commitment to quality.

Andiamo! offers you the assurance that skilled, experienced, and assessed linguists, who are specialised in your industry, are working to support your organisation. We also provide you with a dedicated project manager to offer a fully managed, end-to-end solution.

Contact our team today to discuss your subtitling needs.

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Looking for voice-over services?

We offer a complete translation and voice-over service too, which includes:

  • Time-coding your video transcript
  • Recording of the voice-over by native, professional voice-over artistes
  • Booking and using a studio and engineer for the recording
  • Editing and supplying the audio/audiovisual files in your required format

Not sure whether you require subtitling or voice-over? We’ve written a blog to help you.

Translator or Interpreter?

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FAQs

How do I add subtitles to a video file?

Organisations producing video content should seek subtitling services from a professional foreign language subtitling company or LSP, to ensure the quality and accuracy of your subtitles and closed captioning.

Providers of this service, like Andiamo, can add foreign language subtitles to your video using an SRT file or a VTT file, which are separate text files that can be overlaid, and turned on and off. Alternatively, your subtitles can be “burnt into” the video, which means the captions are encoded in the video and cannot be removed.

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To permanently add subtitles to an online video, we’d recommend working with a trusted foreign language subtitling provider and opt to “burn in” your subtitles.

At Andiamo!, when burning in subtitles, we ask our clients to provide an MP4 version of the video, and we return an MP4 video complete with high-quality, accurate, burnt-in foreign language subtitles you can trust.

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Subtitles allow viewers of a video to read the dialogue, instead of just listen to it. Foreign language subtitles turn your organisation’s videos into multilingual marketing tools, which can be accessed and understood by your customers, clients and talent across the world.

Subtitles appear at the bottom of the screen and are optimised for readability. They either reflect the original source language of the video, or may provide a translation of the dialogue in another language.

A professional subtitler (like those we have at Andiamo!) will also time your subtitles, so they fit appropriately with the video’s shot changes, layout and visual content. This ensures that they are clear to read, don’t disappear too quickly, and add to the viewing experience, rather than detract from it.

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Closed captions are a form of subtitle that allow the viewer to not only read the dialogue, but read an interpretation of other audio in the video too.

This could be background music, sound effects or even the tone of voice someone is using when they speak. Often these ‘extra’ audio elements are represented in square brackets. Closed captioning is particularly helpful for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, or for audiences likely to be watching videos on mute (think of the number of people with a daily commute using public transport).

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Like subtitles – which enable viewers to read the dialogue of the video – closed captioning works the same way, only the subtitler uses their creativity to describe the audio in the video too. This increases the accessibility of your videos enormously, to those who have hearing difficulties or are watching on mute.

As foreign language subtitling and closed captioning specialists, we provide this service both following client style guides, or using our experience to deliver the most appropriate closed captions possible.

Sometimes speech may need to be paraphrased in order to fit the extra audio information on the screen, but this can happen in regular subtitling too. Professional subtitlers are well-versed in condensing speech while maintaining nuance.

Identifying the difference between closed captioning and subtitles is simple:

Subtitles visually represent a video’s spoken dialogue. Closed captioning also includes descriptions of important audio, like background music, sound effects or a speaker’s tone of voice, and helps to increase the accessibility of your video content.

Both subtitles and closed captions can be in the video’s source language, or in any number of languages via foreign language subtitling services like ours.

Learn more about how we can support your organisation with subtitling and closed captioning today.

Sounds are subtitled via closed captioning. Closed captioning is a form of subtitling that describes the sound in a video beyond its dialogue. They appear on-screen as they happen in the video, and are usually presented inside closed brackets.

The subtitler leans on their creativity to choose descriptions, either in the video’s source language, or in translated languages, to describe the audio and its purpose in the video.

Subtitling sound with closed captioning is all about making sure the caption reader gets the same information and impression as the listener, to maximise your video’s accessibility.

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