Bengali subtitling services

The published Bangla guide sets the same 42 per line that Latin-script guides use, and we work to it. The catch is that a count is not a width: conjunct forms pack several letters into one unit on screen, so two lines counted at 42 can render at visibly different lengths. We write to the number and then approve the line by looking at it in the delivery frame.

Because the script packs more language into each unit. The Bangla platform guide allows up to 22 characters a second for adult programming and 18 for children's, against 17 in the Latin-script guides, and the minimum event duration drops to five sixths of a second. We take those as ceilings rather than targets, and most of our lines land comfortably below them.

No. Bengali does separate words with spaces, so most breaks fall naturally at a word boundary, which is where a reader expects them. Below that level the rule is absolute: a conjunct form is one typographic unit and cannot be split, by a line break or by an automatic trim. Tools that shorten lines by cutting characters are the usual way this gets broken.

Usually because something between the subtitler and the screen treated the text as a string of separate letters rather than combined units. Truncation, re-wrapping and font substitution can all pull a conjunct apart or reorder a vowel sign. Tell us where the file is going and we will deliver something that survives the trip, or supply a burnt-in master if the chain cannot be relied on.

Bengali subtitling starts at £20 per minute of video. The figure moves with running time, whether we transcribe the Bangla audio first, whether you need SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many delivery formats come out at the end. The on-screen line check is part of the standard service, not an extra. Every job is quoted individually under our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and a good share of our Bengali work is exactly that. Same-language captions and SDH serve accessibility teams, keep muted social feeds readable and give search engines something to index. The line-width work is identical to a translated file, because a caption written straight from Bengali dialogue will run long far more often than a translation from English does.

We can, and it usually lowers the cost. We spot and time from what you send, then check every line at its rendered width and rebreak the ones that crowd the frame — inherited files are very often written to a character count that nobody looked at on screen. Where there is no transcript, we transcribe the Bengali audio first. Both routes get the same QA.

They will. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that carry the conjuncts intact into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors, with the line breaks exactly where we placed them. Where the onward chain is long or unknown, a burnt-in MP4 or MOV settles it, since the typography is then part of the picture.