Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Do you translate subtitles from a written source text, or directly from source language audio?
Poster: Novian Cahyadi
Post title: Mostly templates
Usually the client provides a subtitle file complete with timestamps. I just need to translate the script and make adjustments as necessary. But occasionally, I have to transcribe the video and create the timestamps myself. When that happens, I would of course charge more.
Although I never had to work from audio-only files. It was always from videos. Pretty weird if you were just given an audio file to work with.
Topic: Do you translate subtitles from a written source text, or directly from source language audio?
Poster: Novian Cahyadi
Post title: Mostly templates
Usually the client provides a subtitle file complete with timestamps. I just need to translate the script and make adjustments as necessary. But occasionally, I have to transcribe the video and create the timestamps myself. When that happens, I would of course charge more.
Although I never had to work from audio-only files. It was always from videos. Pretty weird if you were just given an audio file to work with.