Romanian subtitling services

Because two sets of characters look almost the same. Romanian uses ș and ț with a comma below; the cedilla forms ş and ţ are a different pair that older encodings assigned to Romanian by mistake, and files produced before Windows Vista very often carry them. We deliver the comma-below characters and check them in the font your file will be played in.

Almost always the font. Romanian's five diacritic letters are spread across three different Unicode ranges, and ș and ț sit in the one that many so-called Eastern European fonts leave out — so a font can render ă and â perfectly and still fail on the other two. Tell us where the file is going to be played and we will deliver something that renders there, or supply burned-in subtitles if the environment cannot be relied on.

Yes, and it is common. Romanian is widely typed without diacritics, and text that has been through automatic transcription or machine translation often comes back with bare s and t. Restoring them is editorial work, not search and replace, because the correct letter depends on the word — so a native subtitler does it, and it is part of the job rather than an extra.

Yes. It is the same language and the same written standard, and we follow the spelling set by the Romanian Academy. Where archive or Transnistrian source material arrives in Cyrillic, we convert it as part of the project rather than sending it back.

We price Romanian subtitling by the minute of video, starting at £18. What moves the figure: how long the video runs, whether we transcribe before we translate, whether you need SDH or a burned-in version, and how many output formats leave with the job. Every project gets its own quote, and the Price Match Promise stands behind it.

Yes. Translated Romanian subtitles are one job; same-language Romanian captions and SDH are another, and we do both. When the footage is already in Romanian and all you need is accurate on-screen text for accessibility or for a muted feed, that is our Romanian captioning work rather than an add-on to it.

Yes — send it over. We spot and time against your transcript or SRT, but the first thing we look at is whether the Romanian characters made it through the last save; inherited files usually lose their diacritics somewhere along the way. Without a transcript we start from the Romanian audio. Either route, the same linguistic and technical QA applies.

All of them, in practice. Romanian SRT, VTT, STL and TTML files leave with ș and ț intact and open in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the main online editors. If you would rather not depend on the viewer's font at all, we burn the subtitles into a finished MP4 or MOV.

Less than people expect: the video, or a link to it, its running time, which platform or broadcaster it is going to, and the date you need it by. A rough cut is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for picture lock and lose a week of your schedule. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.

Send it over. Our Price Match Promise covers like-for-like work, and because our quotes are itemised you can see exactly what is being compared — which is usually where the gap turns out to be, in a revision pass, a licence or a delivery format that the cheaper figure quietly left out. If it really is the same work for less, we match it.