Estonian subtitling services

Because whatever sorted it was not told the text was Estonian. Estonian puts z and ž between š and t, and õ, ä, ö and ü after v, so a default Latin sort scatters exactly the names that carry those letters. It never reports a problem, which is the awkward part: the list simply arrives looking careless. We sort anything we deliver using the Estonian order.

Yes, and we would rather do it than hand you raw text to sort at your end. Term glossaries, character lists, SDH speaker labels and rendered credit rolls all go out already ordered. If your own system re-sorts them after delivery, tell us and we will supply the sequence explicitly so the order can be set rather than recalculated.

It can, and it needs a person rather than a substitution rule. Those letters appear in Estonian mainly in loanwords and foreign names, which is why text clean-up routines treat them as accents worth stripping — but a surname spelled with ž is a different surname from one spelled with z. A native subtitler restores them against the source rather than guessing from the shape of the word.

Your delivery spec first, wherever you have one. No streaming platform publishes an Estonian subtitling guide, so for everything a client spec leaves open we follow our own house figures for timing and line length, and the reference works of the Institute of the Estonian Language for spelling, ordering and usage. We tell you which rule a decision came from if a reviewer queries it.

It starts at £18 for each minute of running video. The variables are length, whether the audio has to be typed up before spotting, whether you want an accessibility version or captions burnt into the picture, and how many output formats are on the list. Sorting and checking the material that ships alongside the subtitles is part of the job, not an extra line. Price Match Promise included.

Yes, and a fair share of our Estonian work is exactly that. Estonian footage gets Estonian captions and SDH, with speaker labels and the non-dialogue sound a deaf viewer would otherwise lose, which is what accessibility reviews expect and what muted social needs. Speaker labels are a list like any other, so they get ordered properly too.

Usually yes, and it saves time. We bring it in, keep the cues that hold up against picture, cut back anything past the line limit, and check the Estonian letters made it through the import intact — that is where files picked up elsewhere tend to lose them. With no file to start from, our team transcribes the audio here. Both paths end at the same QA.

They should. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML import cleanly into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Resolve, Media Composer and the browser editors the platforms run. One caution worth passing on: an editing timeline previews in its own font, which may not carry õ, ä, ö or ü properly even when the delivery font does. We can also supply a finished master with the captions in the picture.