Hungarian subtitling services

A character table mismatch, almost certainly. ISO 8859-1 keeps Õ and Û at exactly the byte positions ISO 8859-2 and Windows-1250 hand to Ő and Ű, so a file authored under one table and read under another swaps the pairs without complaining about anything. The fix is to write UTF-8 at source, or to name the code table explicitly where a broadcast spec demands one, and then read the output back to confirm it.

They will, provided the character table is right. An EBU STL file chooses from five tables and Latin-2 is not among them; the Latin option is ISO 6937, which builds ő and ű from a double acute byte placed in front of the vowel. Hungarian encodes correctly under it. Because that behaves unlike a plain single-byte set, we take the table from your delivery document and check what comes out rather than let an encoder guess.

They do. ő and ű are letters of the Hungarian alphabet in their own right, with their own places in it, and the doubled accent marks a vowel length that carries meaning: ö and ő are no more interchangeable than o and u. Putting õ or û on screen is a spelling error to a Hungarian reader, and on brand or compliance work it is the kind of error somebody photographs. Planned for in advance, it costs nothing.

Yes, and it is one written standard throughout. Hungarian is official in Hungary and in the European Union, official in the Serbian province of Vojvodina and in three Slovenian municipalities, and a recognised minority language in Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, Austria, Czechia and Ukraine. A single file serves all of them. What can differ is institutional and place-name terminology, so where a project is aimed at one community we agree those terms first.

From £18 for each minute of video. Running time dominates the figure, then transcription of the Hungarian audio where no script exists, SDH, an open-caption master, and the number of deliverables leaving with the job. Verifying the double acute letters belongs to quality assurance, so those checks sit inside the rate rather than on top of it. Quotes arrive itemised, and our Price Match Promise applies as it does everywhere else.

Regularly, yes. Hungarian captions and Hungarian SDH are built off the audio itself: the format accessibility leads ask for, and the one that survives a silent autoplaying feed. Same-language work puts considerably more Hungarian on screen than a translated track does, which means more ő and ű up there, so the encoding check earns its keep in proportion. Speaker labels and sound cues go through the same read as the dialogue.

The first job is to open the file and inspect the vowels, because inherited material is where mangled accents usually surface and repairing them is cheap once somebody has looked. After that come the cues against picture, condensing whatever outruns your reading speed, and a re-export in the format you actually need. Starting from nothing instead, we transcribe the Hungarian audio ourselves and spot against that.

The usual set. An STL, TTML, VTT or SRT export loads into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and the browser-based editors with the vowels intact. Where a tool is old enough to assume a single-byte encoding, we tell you which table to pick on import instead of letting it guess. And where juggling a sidecar file is more bother than it is worth, we hand back a finished MOV with the text already rendered.