Ukrainian subtitling services

Because four Ukrainian letters — і, ї, є and ґ — do not exist in Russian, and a lot of software still treats Cyrillic as one thing. A file auto-detected as Russian, or rendered in a font subset built for Russian, drops exactly those four. We deliver files encoded and checked as Ukrainian, and confirm them in the font your player uses.

No, and treating it that way is what causes most of the technical problems we see. They are separate languages with separate alphabets, separate vocabulary and separate spelling rules, and a Ukrainian audience notices immediately. We subtitle Ukrainian with native Ukrainian subtitlers, not by adapting a Russian file.

Because it is part of the word rather than punctuation — it blocks palatalisation, as in ім'я. Subtitle specs call for the plain straight apostrophe, and a smart-quotes setting will replace it with a typographic one inside the word, which is both wrong and off spec. We check the form before delivery.

It can. The reform restored a set of older forms and ran a five-year transition that closed in 2024, so material written to the previous standard now reads as out of date. If you have a subtitle library or a glossary assembled before then, we can flag what has changed rather than silently mixing the two.

Ukrainian subtitling costs from £18 per minute of video. Running time is the base; on top of it sit transcription where there is no script, SDH or a burned-in version if you need one, and the number of output formats. You get an individual quote, covered by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Translation into Ukrainian and same-language Ukrainian captioning are two different jobs, and we deliver both, SDH included, for accessibility work and for muted social. Footage already in Ukrainian that simply needs accurate on-screen text sits squarely in our Ukrainian captioning service.

Yes, send it. We time from your transcript or SRT, starting with a check on whether the Ukrainian-only letters and the apostrophes survived the last save. If there is no transcript we work from the Ukrainian audio instead. The linguistic and technical QA is identical either way.

All of them. Ukrainian SRT, VTT, STL and TTML files keep і, ї, є and ґ intact and import cleanly into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or we burn them into a finished MP4/MOV so that nothing depends on the viewer's font.

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.