Malay subtitling services

We can, though writing from your source usually works out cheaper in the end. The 1972 reform brought the two spelling systems into line, so a converted file reads plausibly at a glance. Vocabulary is where it separates: kantor against pejabat, televisi against televisyen, and forms such as tau and mau that the Malay style guide rules out by name. For Indonesia itself we keep a separate Indonesian subtitling page.

For most content, one file covers all three. They write the same standard, and their language authorities sit on a regional council founded in 1972 for the express purpose of keeping those standards aligned. What varies is official and local terminology rather than grammar or spelling, so the check is a short one. Tell us which market leads and the subtitler works outward from that starting point.

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, the body that regulates the national language of Malaysia, together with its Kamus Dewan dictionary and its online reference centre. Platform style guides send translators to the same place, so there is no conflict between house practice and delivery spec. Where your organisation keeps a glossary or a written house style, that takes priority and we build it in before the first cue is written.

Both countries dropped older spellings on 16 August 1972 and moved to a shared set. Malaysia gave up ch, sh and th in favour of c, sy and s; Indonesia gave up tj, dj, sj, nj and ch in favour of c, j, sy, ny and kh. What the reform did not touch was the vocabulary, and a number of minor spelling differences survived it too. That is why the two look interchangeable on the page and are not.

Twenty pounds for each minute of video is the starting point. Beyond running time, a quote moves on transcription, on SDH, on whether you want the text burnt into the picture, and on how many output formats leave with the job. Writing to Malaysian spelling and vocabulary is simply how the work is done here rather than a surcharge sitting on top of it. Quotes are itemised, with our Price Match Promise behind them.

Regularly. Malay audio gets Malay text, with SDH and closed captions where accessibility or a muted feed calls for them. The spelling checks are identical, and speaker labels and sound cues follow DBP forms like everything else in the file. Where the footage mixes Malay and English, which a good deal of Malaysian corporate video does, we agree at the brief how that is handled on screen.

It comes in as the starting draft. We check the spotting against the picture, re-time anything that outruns the reading speed, and read the text through for forms that survived an earlier conversion from the neighbouring standard. Shortened words get written out where a delivery spec asks for full forms. Where there is no script at all, we transcribe the audio and build the file from that instead.

SRT and VTT for the online platforms and the browser editors, STL and TTML for broadcast and streaming delivery specs, all of it encoded as UTF-8. Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve read them without conversion. Where a sidecar file complicates your workflow, we supply an MP4, MOV or ProRes master with the Malay already burnt into the picture.