Basque subtitling services

After the word carrying the case ending, never before it. Basque marks a whole noun phrase with a single suffix on its final word, so splitting the phrase leaves the viewer reading something with no grammatical role attached until the next line appears. The published style guide asks for breaks on syntactic units for exactly this reason, and our subtitlers place them by hand.

Because Spanish repeats its grammar and Basque concentrates it. In Spanish an article, a preposition and an agreement ending all point at the same relationship several times over, so losing one place to a line break costs little. Basque marks the relationship once, at the end of the phrase, so a wrap that lands before that point removes the only clue there was.

That is a positioning decision rather than a comprehension one, and most of our clients conclude yes. The audience is bilingual, so a Basque subtitle is read alongside the Spanish rather than instead of it, and the comparison is immediate. Institutional, public-sector and regional broadcast work almost always carries both, and we produce the pair together so the timing matches.

Euskara batua, the standard Euskaltzaindia settled in the late 1960s, unless you tell us otherwise. It is what broadcast, education and publishing use, and it is what the whole readership can follow. Where dialogue is deliberately regional, or the content belongs to one province, we will raise it at the brief so the choice is yours rather than ours.

Basque subtitling is priced per minute of video, from £18. Setting the line divisions by hand is inside that rate rather than on top of it, because in Basque that is most of the craft. The rest follows running time, whether transcription comes first, whether you need SDH or burnt-in output, and how many formats. Every job is quoted individually with our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and it comes up constantly in institutional and broadcast work. Same-language Basque captions and SDH are what accessibility teams ask for and what carries a muted feed. Because the wording is fixed by the audio, the whole job moves to where the lines divide and how long each cue holds, which is the part of Basque subtitling that actually needs a native.

Certainly. We spot and time from what you send, and the first pass rebuilds any break that a tool placed on character count rather than on the phrase. If there is no transcript we produce one from the audio first. Either route gets the same linguistic and technical QA before the file goes back to you.

They will. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML go into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the browser-based editors with our line divisions preserved — worth checking after import, since an editor set to re-wrap at its own width will undo them. Burnt-in MP4 or MOV removes the risk for good.