Bulgarian subtitling services

No, and this is the single most common false alarm on a Bulgarian delivery. Cyrillic italics are drawn, not slanted: several lowercase letters take an entirely different outline, so an italic line genuinely does not resemble the upright one. The published Bulgarian subtitling spec states in as many words that the change is correct rather than a corruption, and we repeat it in the handover notes.

In more places than people expect. Specs generally call for them on voices heard but not seen, on song lyrics, on foreign words that have not been adapted, and on rendered on-screen text. Across a feature that adds up to dozens of cues, which is why the shape change is worth understanding once at the start instead of being rediscovered by whoever reviews the file.

Because one of them has a real italic typeface and the other is faking it. When no italic cut is present, software simply tilts the upright letters — fine in Latin, wrong in Cyrillic, where the italic forms are different shapes rather than sloped ones. Tell us where the file will be played and we will either recommend output that carries a proper italic or burn the captions into the picture.

On burnt-in video, yes, because the typeface is applied here and you receive a finished picture. With a separate subtitle file the player and its font have the last word, so we do two things instead: we recommend a face that carries both the Bulgarian shapes and a true italic, and where the format supports a language declaration we deliver it tagged as Bulgarian rather than generically Cyrillic.

From £18 for each minute of running video. Running time moves it, as does typing the audio up before spotting, adding an accessibility or burnt-in version, and the length of your format list. Checking the rendering, which means putting cues on screen in the delivery face with the italic lines included, sits inside the job rather than being billed on top. The quote itemises everything and the Price Match Promise applies.

Frequently. Footage recorded in Bulgarian gets Bulgarian captions and SDH, with speaker attribution and the non-dialogue sound that carries meaning, which is what accessibility reviewers ask for and what a muted feed needs. Same-language files use italics just as heavily as translated ones, so they get the same rendering check before handover.

Often the fastest way in. We import it, keep the cues that still sit correctly against picture, shorten anything over the limit, and check whether the italic tags survived the import — they are quietly dropped more often than the text is. Where you have no file, our team transcribes the Bulgarian audio first. Both routes finish at the same on-screen read-back.

Everything standard. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML load into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Resolve, Media Composer and the platforms' own browser tools. Bear in mind the preview font in an editing timeline is rarely the delivery font, so italics are worth judging on the finished output, not in the edit. If you would rather avoid files altogether we supply a ProRes, MOV or MP4 master with the captions in the image.