Croatian subtitling services

Only the first character, when the word starts a sentence: Džungla, Ljubav, Njegov. When the whole word is in capitals, both characters go up: DŽUNGLA. The form automatic title-casing produces — DŽungla — is wrong, which is why we set capitals at source rather than leaving them to an editor or a stylesheet.

Usually because the file mixes two encodings of the same digraph. Unicode has precomposed characters for dž, lj and nj as well as the ordinary two-letter spellings, and a file assembled from several sources can contain both. They look identical on screen and are different to any tool that compares text. We standardise on one across the title.

Not in the subtitles themselves. č, ć, đ, š and ž are letters rather than accents, and the č/ć distinction separates real words and real surnames, so removing them changes the text. We can deliver plain-ASCII file names alongside correctly spelled subtitle content if your system needs it.

No. The three standards differ in spelling, vocabulary and some grammar, and audiences notice. We subtitle Croatian with native Croatian subtitlers working to the Croatian orthography, and we would do a separate file rather than relabel one.

Croatian subtitling is quoted by the minute of video, from £18. The figure also follows running time, whether we start from a script or from the audio, whether you want SDH or subtitles burnt into the picture, and how many output formats leave with the job. We quote every job on its own, and the Price Match Promise applies.

Yes. Beyond translation into Croatian, we produce same-language Croatian captions and SDH — the closed captioning teams need for accessibility and muted social. If your footage is already in Croatian and you just want accurate on-screen captions, that is core to our Croatian captioning service.

Certainly. With a transcript or SRT in hand we spot and time from it, checking first that the digraphs are encoded consistently and the diacritics survived however the file was last saved. Otherwise we transcribe the Croatian audio first. Each file is checked twice over, once by a linguist and once technically.

All the usual ones. You get SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that keep č, ć, đ, š, ž and the digraphs intact into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV, which removes any dependency on the viewer's font.

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.