Service Overview

High-accuracy subtitling and closed captioning services. Timed, culturally adapted subtitles for corporate videos, training modules, social media, and product demonstrations.

Who Is This Service For?

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Learning & Development Teams

Subtitling compliance training, safety modules, and internal tutorials.

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Social Media & Video Marketers

Adding engaging German subtitles for LinkedIn, YouTube, and website video feeds.

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Event Producers & Broadcasters

Captioning keynote speeches, panel discussions, and virtual summits.

What We Translate & Localize

  • English to German Subtitles: Translating English video speech into natural, readable German subtitles.
  • German to English Subtitles: Translating German interviews, factory tours, and executive messages into English.
  • Burned-in (Open) Captions: Embedding styled captions directly into the video for mobile and social autoplay.
  • SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing): Including sound effects, speaker identification, and musical cues.

Relevant Industries

  • Corporate Training
  • Industrial Machinery
  • Media & Entertainment
  • E-Learning
  • Digital Marketing

Our 8-Step Quality Workflow

Every project follows an established, quality-controlled process designed to eliminate errors and maintain terminology discipline across revisions:

  1. Requirement Analysis: Clarifying target audience, locale conventions (Germany/Austria/Switzerland), and delivery milestones.
  2. Source File Review: Assessing file formats, character encoding, tag structures, and formatting preservation.
  3. Terminology Preparation: Developing project glossaries and aligning approved brand terms.
  4. Translation & Localization: Native subject-matter translators execute the primary draft.
  5. Independent Human Review: A second senior linguist conducts a dual-column bilingual review.
  6. Technical Quality Checks: Verifying numbers, units of measure, layout integrity, and tags.
  7. Formatting & DTP: Reconstructing tables, layouts, callouts, and typography.
  8. Final Quality Sign-off & Delivery: Complete deliverable packaged with client-owned translation memories.

Typical Deliverables

  • Standard subtitle files (.srt, .vtt, .sub, .sbv)
  • Burned-in MP4 video files
  • Bilingual review transcript document
Professional Scope Notice:

Translation Language Solutions provides professional linguistic translation, localization, and documentation organization. TLS does not provide statutory legal advice, laboratory product testing, or regulatory certification.

Frequently Asked Questions

Standard delivery is 2–3 business days for videos under 15 minutes. Expedited 24-hour turnaround is available for urgent corporate projects.

German requires ~30% more space than English. Our linguists skillfully edit and condense sentences so viewers can comfortably read the subtitle without missing the video action.