Flemish subtitling services

nl-BE, the Belgian locale, which is what players, broadcasters and asset management systems understand. There is no separate two-letter code for Flemish, and the ISO code that carries the Flemish name refers to the West Flemish dialects rather than the standard written language. We set the tag explicitly on every deliverable so the file is never sorted into the wrong market by default.

The wording. Belgium and the Netherlands have agreed spelling between them since 1980, so the letters are not where the difference lives. It lives in which everyday word is chosen, in idiom, and in register — how formally a brand addresses a viewer in Flanders is not how it addresses one in the Netherlands. Read side by side, the two files are recognisably different documents.

For internal, technical or instructional material, often yes, and adapting an existing file is quicker and cheaper than starting again. For anything customer-facing we produce a Flemish version, because a Belgian audience notices immediately. If the Netherlands version is the one you need, our Dutch subtitling service covers that market in its own right. Tell us the target and we will say which route is worth it.

Yes, and they are demanding. The Flemish media rules push the public broadcaster from 95 % towards 98 % of its full video offer subtitled by 2030, and commercial channels above a 2 % audience share must subtitle at least 40 % of what they transmit between 13:00 and midnight. If your content is going to a Flemish broadcaster, its accessibility obligations become your delivery spec.

It starts at £18 per minute of video. The figure moves with running time, with whether the Flemish audio needs transcribing first, with SDH or a burnt-in master, and with the number of output formats. Adapting an existing Netherlands file usually costs less than a fresh translation. Every project is quoted individually and backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Same-language Flemish captions and SDH are a large part of the work here, partly because Flemish broadcasters have volumes to hit and partly because social video plays muted. There is no translation step, so the job is transcription, spotting, condensing and reading speed, with a subtitler from the market deciding how speech that is far from standard writing reaches the screen.

Certainly. We spot and time from what you send, and the first pass checks which market it was written for, whether the locale on the file matches, and whether any line has been rewrapped through a compound. If there is no file we transcribe the Flemish audio ourselves. Both routes get the same linguistic and technical QA before delivery.

All the common ones. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that carry the nl-BE tag into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV, where the Flemish version is simply the version on screen and nothing can substitute it.