Hindi subtitling services

It depends on the content. Formal, Sanskrit derived Hindi suits government, institutional, and educational material. Everyday Hindi, which borrows freely from Urdu and English, suits advertising, entertainment, and anything with conversational dialogue. Mismatching the two is one of the most common problems in Hindi subtitling, so we confirm the register at the brief stage.

Both approaches are used, and the right one depends on your audience. Technical terms, brand names, and vocabulary that Hindi speakers routinely use in English are often clearer left as they are. Transliterating into Devanagari suits audiences less comfortable reading Latin script. We agree the approach before subtitling rather than mixing the two inconsistently.

Devanagari asks more of a font than Latin script does, since conjunct characters and attached vowel marks have to combine correctly rather than sit side by side. Players falling back to an unsuitable font break the conjuncts or misplace the marks. Tell us where the file will be played and we will supply something that renders there, or burned-in subtitles if the environment is unpredictable.

Expect 24 to 48 hours on a short video. Three things shift it: how long the video runs, how many files you want delivered, and whether a Hindi transcript already exists. Your project manager pins the delivery date down at the brief.

Hindi subtitling is billed per minute of finished video. Devanagari rendering and correct font embedding add a step, alongside running time, transcription, SDH or burnt-in delivery, and the count of output formats. We quote every job on its own, and the Price Match Promise applies, so send the video for an exact, itemised figure.

Yes. As well as translating into Hindi, we produce same-language Hindi captions and SDH — the closed captioning teams need for accessibility, social video and search. If your footage is already in Hindi and you just want accurate on-screen captions, that is core to our Hindi captioning service.

Yes — where a transcript or SRT exists, we work straight from it, making sure the Devanagari encoding holds up for your delivery target. Otherwise we transcribe the Hindi audio first. Every file goes through the same linguistic and technical QA.

All the usual ones. You get SRT, VTT, STL and TTML with correctly embedded Devanagari fonts into Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online players — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV so the script always displays correctly.

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.