Slovenian subtitling services

It is a third grammatical number, used when there are exactly two of something. Nouns, verbs and pronouns all have a dual form alongside the singular and the plural, and Slovenian uses it as standard rather than for emphasis. In a subtitle it matters because the wrong number is not a shade of meaning: it tells the viewer there are more than two people involved when the picture shows two.

Not reliably. English does not distinguish two from many anywhere: not in we, not in you, not in the verb — so the information simply is not in the source line. It has to come from the video: who is in shot, who is being spoken to, whether a pair has become a group between cues. This is why we never hand a Slovenian job over as a text file without the picture.

It defaults to the plural, because the plural is what the English input implies. That reads as slightly off rather than plainly broken, which is the harder kind of error to catch in review — a reader notices the tone before they can name the fault. Post-editing a machine draft for Slovenian therefore means going back to the footage scene by scene, which is the work we would have done anyway.

Only as raw material. Those languages lost the dual, so a file coming from them has no dual forms in it to reuse — every two-person exchange has to be rewritten rather than adjusted, along with vocabulary that differs anyway. We are happy to work from an existing regional file to save transcription and spotting time, but the Slovenian text is written by a native Slovenian subtitler.

From £18 per minute of video. What moves it: running time, whether the audio needs typing up before we spot, whether you want SDH or a burnt-in master, and the number of output formats leaving with the job. Every project is quoted on its own terms, itemised so you can see what each part costs, and the Price Match Promise applies.

Yes, and they are a job in their own right rather than an extra. Slovenian footage gets Slovenian captions and SDH with speaker labels and the audible detail a deaf viewer would otherwise lose. Same-language work has one advantage here: the dual is already correct in the audio, so the captioner is transcribing a decision rather than reconstructing one.

Yes — send it across. We time it to picture and cut the lines to length, and the transcript brings the grammar with it, which removes the guesswork about how many people a line is addressing. Where no transcript exists we type the audio up in-house first. Either way the file goes through the same linguistic and technical QA before you see it.

All the usual ones. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML import into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Media Composer and the web editors the platforms provide, with č, š and ž intact — Slovenian needs nothing unusual from a font. If you would rather not handle subtitle files at all, we deliver a finished MP4, MOV or ProRes with the text already in the picture.

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.