Lithuanian subtitling services

It is called an ogonek, or nosinė in Lithuanian. It once marked a nasal vowel, but those nasals became long vowels centuries ago, so today the mark tells you the vowel is long. That makes it a letter-level distinction rather than an accent you could drop, and it explains why it has to be visible at caption size rather than merely present in the file.

Because the editor is not where the spacing gets decided. Typographers set leading; subtitle boxes inherit it from the platform. The ogonek is drawn to full descender depth and the dot on ė and the bar on ū rise above the letters, so a stacked two-line Lithuanian cue asks more of the vertical space than the same cue in English. The only honest test is looking at it where it will play.

Usually, and it is worth confirming rather than assuming. What matters is not only that the font contains ą, ę, į, ų, ė and ū, but how it draws them — a mark squeezed up against the letter to save vertical space reads as cramped, and one that overshoots the letter's right edge collides with the next character. Send us the font and the caption styling and we will look at both.

Rewrite rather than shrink. Lithuanian carries grammatical information in word endings across seven cases, so it builds longer words than English does and the endings are hard to trim without changing the meaning. Our subtitlers condense the sentence instead, and we resist pushing reading speed past what the viewer can follow. Where two lines genuinely will not hold it, we re-cue rather than overfill.

From £18 per minute of video. The figure depends on running time, whether the audio needs transcribing before we spot it, whether you want SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many output formats leave with the job. Every project is quoted individually and itemised, and the Price Match Promise applies to the number we give you.

Yes. Same-language Lithuanian captions and SDH are a service in their own right, not a variant of translated subtitles — speaker labels, sound effects and music cues included, for accessibility requirements and for muted social feeds. They are checked in the destination player exactly like translated files, since the rendering question does not depend on where the text came from.

Yes, send it across. We time it to picture and re-cut the lines that run over, and we check the marked vowels came through the last save intact before anything else happens to the file. Where no transcript exists our team types the Lithuanian audio up first. Either route, the same linguistic and technical QA runs before delivery.

Yes. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML open in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Media Composer and the browser editors platforms provide. The caveat is display rather than import: an editor previews captions in its own font and its own spacing, neither of which your audience gets. For full control of how the text sits, we deliver a burnt-in MP4, MOV or ProRes.