Czech subtitling services

Because Czech typographic rules do not allow a one-letter preposition or conjunction — u, k, o, s, v, z, a, i — to be left stranded at the end of a line. It has to stay with the word it belongs to. That removes break points other languages can use, so Czech lines are written to fit rather than re-wrapped to fit.

The file was almost certainly saved in a Western European encoding, which has no room for those three letters. Czech needs either a Central European encoding or Unicode. Since Czech spelling is close to phonemic, losing a letter changes the word rather than just looking untidy, so we check the file's encoding on arrival and on delivery.

Czech ones, as standard. That means low-high quotation marks rather than straight ones, a single ellipsis character rather than three full stops, a decimal comma, and numbers up to ten written out. These are the details that make a file read as translated rather than adapted, and they are easy to miss when working from an English template.

Some will, and it is worth deciding up front. If your platform reflows text, the safest route is burned-in subtitles, which fix the breaks in the picture. If it honours the file, we deliver the breaks where Czech wants them and they stay there. Either way we check against the environment rather than the editor.

Czech subtitling works out per minute of video, from £18. Beyond that it tracks running time, whether the audio has to be transcribed first, whether you are taking SDH or burnt-in delivery, and how many files go out with it. Each project gets its own quote, with the Price Match Promise behind it.

Yes. Not only do we translate into Czech, we produce same-language Czech captions and SDH — the closed captioning teams need for accessibility and muted social. If your footage is already in Czech and you just want accurate on-screen captions, that is core to our Czech captioning service.

Yes — where a transcript or SRT exists, we work straight from it, re-checking the line breaks against Czech rules — inherited files very often break where an English tool decided they could. Otherwise we transcribe the Czech audio first. Linguistic and technical QA runs on every file either way.

All the usual ones. You get SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that keep the diacritics and the non-breaking spaces 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.