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Video Translation & Subtitles
3Play Media offers video translation in 40+ languages, customizable workflows, and 5-star support.
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After your video or audio files have been captioned (or transcripts aligned), we make it easy to translate them into many different languages. Our video translation services are seamlessly integrated with our captioning and transcription services.
Types of Subtitling
Subtitles
Subtitles are intended for hearing viewers who do not understand the language. They communicate dialogue, but not non-speech elements like sound effects in an audio track. Video subtitling can be an instrumental tool in reaching untapped global markets and making your video content accessible to other countries in an array of languages.
Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Subtitles for the D/deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) are subtitles that combine the information of both captions and subtitles. They can be in the source language of the video, as they include important non-dialogue audio like sound effects and speaker identification. SDH assume that the viewer cannot hear the audio and are intended to emulate closed captions on media that does not support closed captions, such as digital connections like HDMI. SDH subtitles can also be translated into foreign languages to make content accessible to individuals who understand other languages.
Additional Features Available
Dubbing
Dubbing entails creating a translated version of a video for distribution to non-native speakers. New audio segments are synced with the existing footage, keeping the dubbed version as close as possible to the original. Although similar, dubbing is not the same as a voiceover, which is used to inform viewers about the story and character and is used for creative storytelling purposes.
Forced Narrative Subtitles
Forced Narrative (FN) subtitles are overlaid text that clarify communications intended to be understood by the viewer. FN subtitles are delivered as separate timed text files and can be used to translate sporadic foreign language, foreign labels, uncommon communication, transcribed dialogue, and more. The picture in your source video is required to be delivered without text, and therefore FN subtitles cannot be burned-in.
Live Translation
Delivering important information in a viewer’s native language aids comprehension and retention of information. Accurate translation allows for the maximum amount of understanding for the viewer. 3Play Media can provide live translation in more than 100 global languages and provide a transcript in a desired language.
Contact 3Play Media to enable any of these features.
How it Works
Order your translations
Choose from over 40+ languages for video translation and complete a translation profile.
Download your files
With over 50 output options to choose from, our file formats will meet your every need.
Quality
Translations are always done by professional linguists that accurately capture the cultural nuances of your video content.
Linguists have area-specific expertise across a wide range of topics, including marketing, technology, healthcare, finance, government, and education.
Our translations are not word for word or literal – they read as if they were written in the target language, and are translated in context against the actual video.
Languages
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Khmer (Cambodian)
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (Great Britain)
- Persian (Farsi)
- Finnish
- French (France)
- French (Canada)
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Maltese
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Panjabi (Punjabi)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Spanish (Latin America)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Thai
- Tongan
- Tswana
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Zulu
Integrations
We integrate with over 20 major video platforms to help streamline the captioning process.
Integrations link disparate systems or platforms to make it easy to share information and build workflows. Integrations are designed to simplify and automate the captioning process. Instead of having to upload captions yourself, integrations will automatically do it for you.
Features & Tools
Subtitle Editor
Your account includes a subtitle editor that allows you to quickly make changes or redactions to your captions after they have been processed.
Turnaround & Job Status
Turnaround times vary depending on the duration, difficulty, and target language. Guaranteed turnaround is available.
Translation Profile
Complete an online translation profile that provides context around your content and communicates to your translator what your business is about.
Video Translation Options
We work with several partners to provide a variety of video translation options (human translators or machine-generated). These options include:
- Single translator (one pass)
- Translation with additional review (two pass)
- Medical translation
- Machine translation
- DIY/crowdsourced translation (through Amara)
Output Formats
After your files have been translated, you can instantly download translated transcripts and subtitles in a variety of formats.
Formats include:
- Subtitle Formats include: DFXP, SRT, SCC, RealText, iTunes, SBV
- Transcript formats include: plaint text, Word Doc, HTML, JSON, and XML
- We can also build custom translation formats
Accessibility Partner
When you work with 3Play Media, you get an accessibility partner. We provide dedicated onboarding, account management, and white glove support for our customers.
We also create tons of educational resources and host webinars and conferences throughout the lifespan of a customer.
Companies everywhere are creating accessible video.
“3Play Media’s technology became a critical part of our agency’s workflow as it allows us to quickly gain strategic insight throughout our entire process. The opportunity to unlock so much potential from video assets is unprecedented.”
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