Nepali subtitling services

Each one is converted, not translated. Nepal dates its documents in Bikram Sambat, so a form, certificate or deadline in shot carries a year that a Gregorian reader will misread by decades. We list every date visible in the picture at the brief stage, convert them individually, and read the finished subtitles back against the frames they belong to before the file goes out.

Bikram Sambat runs about 56.7 years ahead, which works out as 57 years for most of the calendar and 56 between January and the Nepali new year in April. That is why an approximate answer is no use on screen: a subtitle that simply adds 57 to everything will be a year out for a quarter of the source material, and nothing on the page will look wrong.

It depends who is watching. An audience inside Nepal reads Bikram Sambat as the everyday calendar and the Gregorian date as the foreign one; Nepali speakers in India, the Gulf or the UK often work the opposite way. We settle it at the brief, including what to do where both appear in the same shot, so the file is consistent from the first cue to the last.

Only as a first pass. The months of the Nepali year vary between 29 and 32 days and an extra month is added roughly every nineteen years, so the two calendars do not line up in any way you can calculate; conversion is a lookup. A tool gets a candidate, and a Nepali subtitler confirms it against what the picture actually shows.

Nepali subtitling starts at £20 per minute of video. Running time moves the figure most, together with whether we transcribe the audio first, whether you need SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many delivery formats leave with the job. Converting and checking the dates in the picture is part of the standard service. Every project is quoted individually under our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and it is a good share of our Nepali work. Same-language captions and SDH serve accessibility teams, keep a muted feed readable and give search engines something to index. The calendar question is smaller on a same-language file but it does not vanish, because a caption still has to agree with the date printed on whatever is being held up to camera.

We can, and it usually lowers the cost. We spot and time from what you send and check it against the audio. The gap we look for first is the on-screen text, since a transcript records what was said and not what was shown, so the signs, slides and documents carrying dates are normally missing from it entirely. Without a transcript we start from the audio.

They will. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that carry the Devanagari intact into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors. Where the on-screen dates need to sit precisely over a sign or a slide rather than at the bottom of the frame, a burnt-in MP4 or MOV puts them exactly where you place them and keeps them there.