Kannada subtitling services

Because the caption box is not tall enough for it. That small letter is an ottu, the below-base form of a consonant, and it is part of the word rather than decoration — losing it changes what is written. Tight line spacing clips it, and a low type size makes it too small to read before anything else on the line suffers. We set the spacing and the size around it.

Not usefully. The ottu is already drawn smaller than the letter it hangs from, so every point taken off the type size comes off the ottu twice over, and it goes illegible while the base letters still look perfectly fine. If a line will not fit, the answer is editorial — the subtitler condenses the sentence, or the text takes a second line. The size is not the lever, and it never has been.

That is the usual pattern, and it is a layout difference rather than a text one. A subtitling tool gives the line as much vertical room as it needs; a player applies a fixed box and a fixed line height, and whatever hangs below the baseline is what gets cut. Tell us where the file will be played and we check it there before you sign it off.

More than it does in a Latin language, and the platform guide agrees — it names Nudi or Baraha for Kannada where guides for Latin languages leave the typeface open. Fonts differ in how large they draw the ottu and how much room they claim above and below the line, so the same text set in two faces is not equally readable at the same size. We check in the one your file will use.

Kannada starts at £20 a minute of video. The figure moves with the running time, whether we transcribe before translating, whether you want SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many output formats leave with the job. Setting the line spacing and reading the below-base letters back on screen is part of the work, not a line item on top. Every project is quoted on its own, with the Price Match Promise behind it.

Yes, and it is a separate job from translating into Kannada. Same-language Kannada captions and SDH start from the audio you already have and put it on screen accurately, for accessibility or for a muted feed. The typographic work is identical either way — the ottu has to be readable whether the words were translated or transcribed, and both jobs come out of the same team.

Send it. We time and spot against what you have, and the first thing we look at is how it renders at playback size, because an inherited file has usually never been seen anywhere but a text editor. Where there is no transcript we start from the Kannada audio instead. Either route ends with the same linguistic and on-screen checks.

Yes. Kannada SRT, VTT, STL and TTML files import into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the browser-based editors, and the text arrives intact. What travels less reliably is the layout around it, since each application applies its own line height — so if the look has to be fixed, we hand over a burnt-in MP4 or MOV instead.