Burmese subtitling services

Because the signal it looks for is not there. Burmese leaves no space between words, and the spaces that do appear separate phrases rather than words, so wrapping on whitespace gives you a full phrase or a broken word. A valid break sits on a syllable boundary, and even then not in front of a stacked character. That is a judgement a Burmese subtitler makes line by line.

The two devices are almost certainly reading different encodings. Zawgyi and Unicode occupy the same block of code points and disagree about what some of them mean, so one file draws correctly under one system and as noise under the other, with nothing in the bytes to say which it is. We identify what you send, convert it where that is needed, and look at the result on screen before it goes out.

Unicode, unless a broadcaster or an existing library forces your hand. Myanmar moved across officially on 1 October 2019 and current handsets start there, while search, sorting and accessibility tooling all assume it. Where a legacy system still has to be fed, we build the Unicode master first and supply a converted copy beside it so both destinations get something that renders.

It can undo the work, which is why we ask where the file is going. Some players honour the breaks in the file and some re-flow the text to fit their own box, and a re-flow in Burmese lands wherever the algorithm decides rather than on a syllable edge. Where the environment is unknown or unreliable, burning the subtitles into the picture settles the breaks permanently.

Burmese subtitling is priced by the minute of running time, from £20. Setting the break points and confirming the encoding are inside that rate, not added to it. What changes the figure is programme length, whether a transcript is needed first, an SDH pass, a burnt-in master, and the number of formats leaving with you. Every job is quoted on its own and the Price Match Promise applies.

Yes, and it is a steady part of the work. Same-language Burmese captions and SDH are what accessibility briefs and muted social campaigns call for, and they meet the same two problems a translated file does: where the line may break, and which encoding the destination reads. We transcribe in Unicode, time it against your picture, and confirm the shaping on screen.

Send it across. The first thing we establish is which encoding it carries, because a Zawgyi transcript poured into a Unicode timeline looks fine in one window and wrong in the next. After that we spot and time from it, rebuild any break that fell inside a syllable, and run it through the same linguistic and technical QA as anything we originate.

All the common ones. Our SRT, VTT, STL and TTML files carry the Burmese text and its break points into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors, and we confirm each one renders before delivery. Where a workflow cannot be trusted with the script, a finished MP4 or MOV with the text in the picture removes the question entirely.

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.