Azerbaijani subtitling services

Because the file went through a character set that has no schwa in it. The old 8-bit Turkish encoding leaves the letter out entirely, and ä was the substitute people reached for in the early 1990s, so the habit is baked into a lot of older software and a lot of older glossaries. It is a spelling error rather than a display quirk, and putting it right means a native subtitler reading the lines, not a find-and-replace.

The two halves of the letter live in different parts of Unicode. The lowercase sits with the phonetic symbols, which almost every font ships with, and the capital sits with the Latin extensions, which plenty of fonts skip. So a typeface can handle ordinary dialogue and then fail on a line of signage set in capitals. Tell us where the file plays and we will check the capital there, or burn the captions in.

Yes. Azerbaijani in Iran is written in a Perso-Arabic script that runs right to left, and that changes more than the glyphs: line breaks, punctuation placement and the way a two-line cue sits on screen are all different. We treat it as its own version of the file rather than a restyling of the Latin one, so tell us at the brief which audience each deliverable is for.

Yes, and it comes up often with archive footage and older documents. Azerbaijani was written in Cyrillic from 1939 until independence, and a good deal of reference material never moved across. We convert it to the current Latin alphabet as part of the project, with a native subtitler checking the results rather than trusting an automatic mapping.

The rate opens at £18 for each minute of running video. What moves it is length, whether we have to type the audio up before spotting, whether you want an accessibility version or captions burnt into the picture, and how long your list of output formats runs. Sourcing a typeface that carries the capital schwa belongs inside the job, not on top of it. The quote itemises the lot, Price Match Promise included.

A good share of what we do. Footage recorded in Azerbaijani gets Azerbaijani captions and SDH, with speaker attribution and the non-dialogue sound that carries meaning, which is what an accessibility reviewer looks for and what a muted feed depends on. The letter question does not change with the direction of the text, so a same-language file gets the same read-back before it goes out.

Usually the quickest route. We import it, retain the cues that still land correctly, trim any line sitting over the limit, and confirm the schwa came through the import in both cases — inherited files are exactly where it tends to be lost. Where no such file exists, the audio is typed up here first. Both routes end at the same read-back and the same on-screen check.

Any suite that reads the usual subtitle formats. We supply SRT, VTT, STL and TTML, and Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Media Composer and Resolve all open them, as do the browser tools the platforms provide. Worth knowing that an editor's preview font decides what you see there, while the delivery font governs the finished picture. Prefer to skip file handling? We hand over a ProRes, MOV or MP4 master with the captions already in the image.