Farsi subtitling services

The zero-width non-joiner has been stripped out. Persian marks the join inside many compounds, plurals and verb prefixes with U+200C, a character with no width at all, and any tool that tidies invisible characters can drop it without saying so. Nothing else in the file changes, which is precisely why it gets through. Send us the file and we will put the boundaries back and return a version that reads correctly.

It matters a great deal, and it shows. Persian ye and kaf have code points of their own, U+06CC and U+06A9, and the Arabic letters that look like them are drawn differently at the end of a word, which is where a reader notices first. Underneath the appearance, mixing the two means the same word is no longer the same string, so searching and sorting stop working.

Usually, yes. It is editorial work rather than find and replace, because whether a boundary belongs in a given word depends on the word and on the grammar around it, so a native subtitler goes through it. We hand back the corrected file together with a note on which stage of your workflow removed the characters, so the same thing does not happen on the next batch.

That is one of the reasons we are strict about the code points. A caption file typed consistently with Persian letters can be searched, indexed and matched against a glossary or a previous episode; one that mixes Persian and Arabic characters silently fails those checks, because the two spellings never meet. Consistency also makes any future reuse of the file straightforward rather than a clean-up job.

Farsi subtitling is priced per minute of video, from £20. Cost depends on running time, whether we transcribe the Persian audio first, whether you need SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many formats leave with the job. The character audit on export is part of the work rather than an extra. Every job is quoted individually with our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and a large part of our Farsi work is exactly that. Persian-language footage gets a same-language caption file, SDH included, typed with the correct letters and joins so that it can be searched and reused later. Accessibility teams need this version, and it is the one that earns attention in a muted social feed. It sits alongside translated subtitles rather than replacing them.

Send it over. We cue it to picture, condense any line that would overrun, and run it through the same character audit as our own work. An inherited file usually turns out to carry a mix of Persian and Arabic letterforms, depending on who typed it and on what keyboard, so what comes back is corrected as well as timed. Where no transcript exists, we transcribe the Persian audio first.

Yes. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors, with the correct Persian characters and the invisible joins intact on the way in. If your edit is the last stop before publication, a burnt-in MP4 or MOV takes any further text handling out of the chain entirely.