Serbian subtitling services

In one direction, yes. Cyrillic to Latin is mechanical and safe. Latin to Cyrillic is not, because lj, nj and dž normally stand for a single Cyrillic letter but occasionally are two separate letters that happen to meet — nadživeti, where nad joins živeti, against nadžak, where dž is one sound. Converters ship exception lists for exactly this and the lists have gaps, so a Serbian reader checks the output.

It depends on the file and the spec, and it needs deciding once for the whole title. Serbian normally adapts foreign names to Serbian spelling, so George Washington becomes Džordž Vašington and Џорџ Вашингтон. Platform guides often allow a name to stay in its original form in the Latin file while requiring transliteration in the Cyrillic one. We agree the list of names with you at the brief and hold it across every episode.

Streaming delivery specs generally require the pair, and the Netflix guide says Serbian is delivered in both scripts. For a corporate or campaign video it is your call, and the answer is usually still both: a Serbian reader handles either comfortably, and having the second version already made costs far less than commissioning it after the fact when a distributor asks.

Because the specification treats one thing differently in each, and that thing appears constantly in subtitles. Proper names may keep their original Roman spelling in the Latin file but must be written out in Cyrillic in the other, so the two versions genuinely differ in content, not just in letters. Treating them as one text with two skins is how inconsistencies get into a series.

Per minute of running video, starting at £18. Length moves it, so does typing the audio up before spotting, an accessibility or burnt-in version, and how long the format list runs. The second script is quoted within the same job rather than as a separate commission, because it comes from the same translation. Everything is itemised, and the Price Match Promise applies.

Yes, and it is a large part of the work. Serbian footage gets Serbian captions and SDH, speaker labels and audible detail included, which covers accessibility requirements and makes a muted social feed usable. The script question applies here in the same way: same-language captions can go out in Cyrillic, in Latin, or as the pair.

Often, yes. We import it, keep the timings that still hold, re-cut anything over the limit, and establish which script it was written in. Files that were machine-converted somewhere in their history get a reading pass before anything else happens, since that is where the digraph mistakes hide. Where no file exists, we build the Serbian transcript here and spot from scratch.

All the usual ones. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML drop into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Media Composer and the platforms' own upload tools. If you are publishing the Cyrillic version, confirm the destination typeface covers Cyrillic before you commit — or sidestep it entirely and take a burnt-in master as ProRes, MOV or MP4, with nothing to load.