European Portuguese subtitling services

The agreement, unless you tell us otherwise. It has been compulsory in Portugal since 13 May 2015, when the six-year transition closed, and the platform style guides name it as a delivery requirement. Plenty of brands and publishers kept earlier forms in their own material, though. Send a style sheet or a previous file and we hold to that consistently instead, rather than letting two systems mix inside one episode.

Because it legitimised them. Where a consonant is pronounced in one variety and silent in another, Base IV conserves or eliminates it facultatively, so aspecto and aspeto, sector and setor, dicção and dição are all correct under the same rule, and the accentuation rules do the same for António and Antônio. A file can follow the agreement to the letter and still miss your house style, which is why we ask up front.

Yes, and publishers and broadcasters ask for it often. Tell us at the brief and the whole delivery follows your convention, checked end to end so the opening and the closing reel agree with each other. Retrofitting a convention onto a file that is already written is a second editorial pass and is quoted as one, so the moment it costs nothing to decide is before anyone starts typing.

We do, and the territory changes the brief. As of July 2026, Angola and Mozambique were still the two signatories that had not ratified the agreement, while Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste and Guinea-Bissau had. So rather than deduce an orthography from a language code, we ask which convention your audience and your client actually read, then apply that one across the file.

By the minute of running time, from £15. Length drives most of it, along with whether a transcript is needed first, whether you want SDH or a burnt-in master, and the number of delivery formats. Naming your orthography at the brief costs nothing; changing it once the file is written is a full editorial pass and is priced as one. Every quote is itemised and carries our Price Match Promise.

Regularly. A Portuguese-language video gets captions and SDH in Portuguese, which is what accessibility work needs and what makes an autoplay feed usable with the sound off. The spelling question lands on a same-language caption just as it does on a translated one, since the words on screen are still being written down, so the convention is agreed at the same point and speaker labels follow it.

Usually. We import it, re-spot anything over the reading speed, and read it against the convention you have chosen, because older files often carry pre-agreement and post-agreement forms inside a single episode without anyone having noticed. Where a file turns out to have been written for a different market, we say so before starting. With no file at all, we work from the audio.

The standard set. SRT and VTT, or STL and TTML, open cleanly in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and the web editors, delivered as UTF-8 so the accents and the cedilha survive the trip intact. For broadcast we match the delivery spec you hand us. If you would rather ship a finished picture, we burn the subtitles in and return an MP4, MOV or ProRes.