Dutch subtitling services

It depends on where the content is going. The written standard is largely shared, so for internal, technical or instructional material one file often covers both markets. For customer-facing content aimed at Flanders we produce a Flemish version, subtitled by a native of that market, because the differences in everyday vocabulary, idiom and register are noticeable to a Belgian audience. Tell us your target market and we will tell you which you need.

Yes. Flemish is spoken across Flanders, in the northern half of Belgium, and we treat and deliver it as its own language — including native Flemish voice over. It shares much of its written standard with Netherlands Dutch, but has its own accent, vocabulary and register, so for content aimed at Flanders we produce a dedicated Flemish version. Tell us your audience and we'll match it.

By condensing rather than truncating. Dutch compound words are long and cannot be hyphenated across subtitle lines the way an English phrase can, so the subtitler works to convey the meaning within the character limit instead of letting lines overflow or reading speed climb past what a viewer can follow.

Most short videos come back within 24 to 48 hours. What changes it is the length of the finished cut, the number of formats leaving with the job, and whether a Dutch transcript already exists. Your project manager pins the delivery date down at the brief.

Yes. Alongside standard subtitles we produce files carrying sound effects, music cues and speaker labels for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, formatted to the specification your platform or broadcaster requires.

Dutch subtitling is quoted by the minute of video, from £18. Condensing the text to fit the box without losing the meaning is part of the work; the figure also follows running time, transcription, SDH or an open-caption master, and how many files leave with it. Every project is priced individually, backed by the Price Match Promise.

Yes. Send across what you have and we spot and time from it, re-breaking any line where a tool has split a compound or pushed the reading speed past what is comfortable. Otherwise we transcribe the Dutch audio first. Each file is checked twice over, once by a linguist and once technically.

The standard set, and the awkward ones: SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that drop straight into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV.

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.