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.