Norwegian subtitling services

Bokmål for most commercial content, since it is the standard the large majority of Norwegians write and read. Nynorsk where you are addressing western Norway specifically, where a public sector body has an obligation to use it, or where an organisation applies a quota across its published material. If you are unsure, tell us who the content is for and we will advise.

No, they are distinct written standards rather than spelling variants, differing in inflection and vocabulary. A Nynorsk reader understands Bokmål perfectly well, so a single Bokmål file is comprehensible nationwide, but where Nynorsk is required for institutional or regulatory reasons a Bokmål file does not satisfy it.

By assigning subtitlers who work with it routinely. Norway has no standard spoken form, and dialects appear freely in interviews, documentary, and broadcast content, differing from the written standards in vocabulary and grammar rather than only in accent. The subtitler renders it into the agreed written standard.

No. The three are closely related and mutually intelligible to a degree in speech, which sometimes leads to the assumption that one file will serve, but they are separate written languages with distinct spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. Each market needs its own version.

Expect 24 to 48 hours on a short video. What changes it is the length of the finished cut, how many files you want delivered, and whether the Norwegian audio has to be transcribed first. Your project manager confirms the date before we start.

Norwegian subtitling is charged by the running minute of video, and what sets it is running time, whether we start from audio or from a script, whether SDH or a burned-in version is part of it, and how many files go out with it. Each job is quoted on its own, and the Price Match Promise stands behind it: send us the video and you get an exact figure, itemised.

All of them. We supply switchable SRT and VTT closed captions for YouTube, Vimeo and streaming, broadcast formats such as STL and TTML, and open captions burnt in for feeds that play without sound. We also produce Norwegian SDH with speaker IDs and sound cues so your video meets WCAG and accessibility requirements.

Yes. Many Norwegian projects need more than a subtitle file, so we translate scripts and on-screen text, record native Norwegian voice over, and produce dubs — keeping terminology and register aligned across every version, in Bokmål or Nynorsk as your audience requires.

Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. Besides translating into Norwegian we caption Norwegian video in its own language, SDH included — the version accessibility teams ask for, and the one that makes a video searchable. If the audio is already Norwegian and all you want is accurate text on screen, say so and we quote that service.

Absolutely. If you already have a transcript, script or a draft SRT/VTT, we can spot, time and quality-check from it rather than starting from scratch, which usually lowers the cost. If you don't, we transcribe the Norwegian audio first. Either way every file goes through the same linguistic and technical QA.

SRT, VTT, STL, TTML and the rest. Your Norwegian files import cleanly into Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Camtasia, as well as the major online editors and players — or we can burn them into a finished MP4/MOV so there is no separate file to handle.