Amharic subtitling services

Almost always a font or encoding problem rather than a translation problem. The Geʽez script needs a font that supports it, and files moved between systems that handle Unicode inconsistently can corrupt along the way. Tell us which player or platform the file is for and we will deliver something that works there.

Yes, and for Amharic it is often the safer option. Burned-in subtitles remove any dependency on the viewer's device having a suitable font installed, which matters when content is distributed across mixed or low-specification devices. The trade-off is that they cannot be switched off or edited later.

Yes, and it makes up a large share of the Amharic work we do. Content of this kind usually carries terminology that has to stay consistent and remain clear to a general audience, so we agree glossaries before subtitling begins.

A short video is normally back with you inside 24 to 48 hours. What changes it is whether we transcribe the Amharic audio before we translate, the length of the finished cut, and the number of formats leaving with the job. The timeline is agreed with your project manager before work begins.

Amharic subtitling is priced against the minute of video. Because Ethiopic (Fidäl) script and correct font embedding add a rendering step, we confirm the target platform up front. Drivers are running time, whether we transcribe or spot from scratch, SDH or burned-in output, and the number of formats. Quotes are per project, and our Price Match Promise stands behind them.

Yes. Not only do we translate into Amharic, we produce same-language Amharic captions and SDH — the closed captioning NGOs, health and education teams need for accessibility and social reach. If your footage is already in Amharic and you just want accurate on-screen captions, that is a core part of our Amharic captioning service.

Absolutely. If you have a transcript or a draft SRT, we spot and time from it; if the file uses a non-Unicode Ethiopic font we normalise the encoding first so nothing renders as boxes. Otherwise we transcribe the Amharic audio. The same two-stage QA, linguistic and technical, covers every file.

Every common format. We hand over SRT, VTT, STL and TTML with correctly embedded Ethiopic fonts, which import into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV so the script always displays correctly.

Less than people expect: the video, or a link to it, its running time, which platform or broadcaster it is going to, and the date you need it by. A rough cut is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for picture lock and lose a week of your schedule. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.

Send it over. Our Price Match Promise covers like-for-like work, and because our quotes are itemised you can see exactly what is being compared — which is usually where the gap turns out to be, in a revision pass, a licence or a delivery format that the cheaper figure quietly left out. If it really is the same work for less, we match it.