Urdu subtitling services

Because the player has fallen back to a Naskh font. Urdu uses the Perso-Arabic script, but it is conventionally set in Nastaliq, a slanted calligraphic style that looks quite different, and Nastaliq support is far less widespread than Naskh. The text is correct while the rendering is not. Where the playback environment cannot be relied on, burned-in subtitles remove the dependency entirely.

Neither, though it is related to both in different ways. Urdu shares a script family with Arabic but is a completely separate language. It shares a great deal of grammar and everyday vocabulary with Hindi, to the point of being largely mutually intelligible in speech, but it is written in a different script and draws its formal vocabulary from Persian and Arabic rather than Sanskrit. Content for a Hindi audience is its own Hindi file, and we produce both where a project needs to reach the two.

Yes, and it comes up constantly in technical and corporate material. Latin characters and numbers inside a right to left line make the text bidirectional, and players vary in how they order it. We handle the ordering explicitly and test the output rather than leaving it to the player.

Most short videos come back within 24 to 48 hours. What moves that is whether we transcribe the Urdu audio before we translate, running time, and how many output formats you need. Your project manager confirms the date before we start.

Urdu subtitling works out per minute of video. Right-to-left layout and Nastaʿlīq rendering add a font and encoding step, so we confirm the target platform up front; what moves it from there is running time, transcription, SDH or burned-in output and formats. Quotes are per project, and our Price Match Promise stands behind them.

Yes. Beyond translation into Urdu, we produce same-language Urdu captions and SDH — the closed captioning broadcasters, NGOs and education teams need for accessibility and reach. If your footage is already in Urdu and you just want accurate RTL on-screen captions, that is core to our Urdu captioning service.

Certainly. With a transcript or SRT in hand we spot and time from it, making sure right-to-left punctuation and Nastaʿlīq rendering hold up. Otherwise we transcribe the Urdu audio first. Each file is checked twice over, once by a linguist and once technically.

All of them, in practice. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML files that carry Urdu right-to-left text and Nastaʿlīq cleanly into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online players — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV so the script always displays correctly.

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.