Professional Foreign Language Translation & Subtitle Services

1-800-Translate offers a complete range of subtitling options:

Text Subtitles
Subtitle translated text (Word or TXT file) with an edit list. Our subtitling experts can customize your subtitles for color, font, size, and anti-aliasing in both PAL, NTSC, SDH, and PAL English subtitle files.

Pre-fab Slates
Subtitle graphic files saved as PICT, TIF, TGA, EPS or BMP, with a time-code edit list, are best for non-ABC languages that are not compatible with English-based software. Some developers prefer to receive pre-fab files for ABC languages as well for ease in handling.

Captions, Opened and Closed
Captions, like subtitles, appears on the bottom of your TV screen. Captioning is far easier and less expensive than subtitling. There are two types:

Open captions, which do not require a TV decoder. These captions cannot be turned off . They are burned or "keyed" into the video frames, just like subtitles.

Unfortunately, captioning can only be viewed in languages like English, Spanish and others that use the ABCs of Roman script. Languages like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Russian use scripts that are not yet supported by this technology.

Closed captions, which require a TV decoder. Most new TVs have this chip built-in. Most TV programs and commercials are produced with an invisible signal imbedded in the video-blanking interval. The TV can see these signals and decode them to create the captions. Your TV, if it is relatively new, can be set to display the captions. Font choice is even more limited using this system.

Call us at 1-800-872-6752 to learn more about subtitling for your project.