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What are your rates for subtitling?
Thread poster: Dominika Zdrodowski
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Jan 23, 2015

Hello translators,

recently i started to work with a translation agency which asked me for rates for subtitling. They asked for a fixed price for an hour. Until now, I have been charging per word and I was curious if there is anyone out there who has prices for an hour and if yes, how much do you charge?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Recent thread on this topic Jan 23, 2015

http://www.proz.com/forum/subtitling/280682-subtitling_novice_if_i_should_even_get_into_it.html

1 hour of video usually results in 5000-10000 words on the script depending on content. This is without taking into account translation from audio or timecoding.
 
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What service exactly are you providing? Jan 23, 2015

oihana5 wrote:

Hello translators,

recently i started to work with a translation agency which asked me for rates for subtitling. They asked for a fixed price for an hour. Until now, I have been charging per word and I was curious if there is anyone out there who has prices for an hour and if yes, how much do you charge?

Thanks in advance!


By "subtitling", do you mean the full cycle (transcription + timecoding + translation + formatting) or a part of it?
 
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Beyond that Jan 23, 2015

Max Deryagin wrote:

By "subtitling", do you mean the full cycle (transcription + timecoding + translation + formatting) or a part of it?


... + burning + DVD authoring.
 
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Not necessarily Jan 23, 2015

José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:

Max Deryagin wrote:

By "subtitling", do you mean the full cycle (transcription + timecoding + translation + formatting) or a part of it?


... + burning + DVD authoring.


There are many other kinds of subtitles that include neither burning nor authoring: teletext subs, CC, digital cinema (+3D subs), DVB streams, Web (e.g. Netflix Timed Text), venue subtitling (e.g. surtitles) and so on. The original poster never said what exact kind of subtitles she works with, so I thought it'd be safe to go with only the four key components
 
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Of course Jan 23, 2015

Max Deryagin wrote:

There are many other kinds of subtitles that include neither burning nor authoring: teletext subs, CC, digital cinema (+3D subs), DVB streams, Web (e.g. Netflix Timed Text), venue subtitling (e.g. surtitles) and so on. The original poster never said what exact kind of subtitles she works with, so I thought it'd be safe to go with only the four key components


Possibilities are endless, however a subtitled DVD is as far as I'll guess when a(n innocent or ignorant?) client says they want me to "transcribe" a video.
 


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