Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Payment only for actual duration of subtitles?
Poster: Arne Krueger
Post title: Per minute pay yes, but...
You should also try and check the word count of the text in a video... Might be that they are fast speakers and your per minute rate does not reflect the time you spent for translating... It could well be that you end up translating up to 10k words for a documentary. I had it in the past and the translation rate was extremely low then... But your client should be up to it and acknowledge your additional work. Good clients accept a higher rate then.
Topic: Payment only for actual duration of subtitles?
Poster: Arne Krueger
Post title: Per minute pay yes, but...
You should also try and check the word count of the text in a video... Might be that they are fast speakers and your per minute rate does not reflect the time you spent for translating... It could well be that you end up translating up to 10k words for a documentary. I had it in the past and the translation rate was extremely low then... But your client should be up to it and acknowledge your additional work. Good clients accept a higher rate then.