How does subtitling work?

DVD players can optionally display subtitles, in a way similar to Ceefax. These subtitles are not "burned in" to the picture, but can be switched on and off by the user when watching the DVD. They can be in virtually any language, and a disc can contain may different subtitle languages.

Subtitling agencies specialise in transcribing all the dialogue for a video and converting this script into subtitles, including arranging the timing and display style of the subtitles as well as translation into different languages, if necessary. We will be happy to arrange this for your project, if you like. Alternatively you can create the subtitles yourself and supply them to us as a correctly formated text file, or as images with timecode references. These methods involve more work for you, but can be much more cost-effective.