Finnish subtitling services

Because Finnish builds long words by attaching endings rather than using separate prepositions and articles, and those words cannot be hyphenated across subtitle lines. A phrase that fits comfortably in English can become a single unbreakable word in Finnish. Rather than pushing reading speed past what a viewer can follow, the subtitler rewrites to fit, which is a translation skill rather than a mechanical one.

Finnish is a Uralic language, most closely related to Estonian and more distantly to Hungarian, and it stands apart from the Indo-European languages spoken around it. Sweden's long historical presence left loanwords, but the grammar works on entirely different principles. Content for Swedish-speaking audiences in Finland is its own version in Swedish, and we produce both where a project needs to reach the whole country.

Yes. Alongside standard subtitles, we produce SDH files that include sound effects, music cues, and speaker identification for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, formatted to the specifications your platform or broadcaster requires.

A short video is normally back with you inside 24 to 48 hours. What changes it is whether the Finnish audio has to be transcribed first, the length of the finished cut, and how many files you want delivered. The timeline is agreed with your project manager before work begins.

Finnish subtitling is billed per minute of finished video. Finnish compounds run long, so condensing to keep the reading speed comfortable is part of the craft; the figure also follows running time, transcription, SDH or an open-caption master, and how many files leave with it. Each project gets its own quote, with the Price Match Promise behind it.

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

We can. Send the transcript or SRT and we time against it, condensing Finnish's long compounds where a line would otherwise overflow. Otherwise we transcribe the Finnish audio first. Linguistic and technical QA runs on every file either way.

All of them, in practice. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML files that import cleanly into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Camtasia and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV if you prefer not to handle a separate file.

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.