SUBTITLING IS A CREATIVE TASK

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2 Poor subtitling is the quickest way to waste the hard work and money invested in your audiovisual production. Our team of subtitling and translation experts will provide you with synchronized subtitle files ready for embedding. Alternatively, you ll receive final subtitled videos ready to be screened in movie rooms or uploaded to your website or YouTube in the style, format, color and font you prefer. SUBTITLING IS A CREATIVE TASK Note, even if we trade collectively as IT Pros, we're not an agency. We generally complete all the required tasks in-house and only outsource those projects in agreement with our clients in order to boost our productivity, when our in-house team is swamped or whenever we get requests for subtitling content into languages we don't cover. That's the reason we can offer "freelance" rates.

3 3 We re mainly active in the cinema and TV industries, subtitling feature films and TV series for major subtitling and post-production studios, broadcast companies and directors worldwide. We ve also served multiple Netflix Preferred Vendors for quite some time. Besides, our long-standing experience in specialist translation also makes us the perfect choice for corporate and training videos. SUBTITLING IS AN ART FORM If you re looking to use your subtitles on YouTube, you will be able to do so in a matter of a few clicks as we also support the YouTube Ready format (sbv).

4 FORMATS AND LANGUAGE PAIRS We deliver subtitles in the following formats:.srt/ EBU.stl/._890 /.pac/.scc/.sif/.rtf/.das /.dar/.mtl/.cip/.sbv/.vtt/.usf/.fdx/.h tml/.fpc/.aqt /.asc/.ass/.dat/.dks/.js/.jss/.lrc/.mpl/.ovr/.pan/.pjs/.rt/.s2k/.sami /.sbt/.smi/.son/.srf/.ssa/.sst/.ssts/.stl/.stp/.sub/.tts/.vkt/.vsf/.zeg/.txt/.xml We offer interlingual subtitling services from English to Italian, German to Italian, Italian to English (UK, US, international), Italian to German, French to Italian, Italian to French as well as other language combinations subject to availability. We also offer intralingual (monolingual) subtitling services from Italian to Italian, English to English, German to German, French to French (timecoded subtitle templates for translation into all languages) and for the hard of hearing (SDH, Teletext). Being based in Naples, Italy, we also subtitle from Neapolitan (Italian local dialect) into standard Italian and directly into English, German and French. We can also export timecoded subtitles to MS Word to allow your own translators to translate and overwrite the text in a standard word processor.

5 5 SUBTITLE EMBEDDING If you need to hardcode subtitles into your movie, you might be interested in this service. You can choose fonts, layouts, colors and positions based on your preferences. This service is especially useful for corporate videos where a permanent integration of subtitles may be desirable or for filmmakers attending film festivals and events as we can provide them with HD digital files or blurays for immediate screening. You can request this service even if you ve already subtitled your videos into multiple languages. All you need to do is provide us with your.srt or any other subtitle file format (including Word) and we ll take it from there.

6 6 CONVERSION AND REFORMATTING In case you already have subtitle files that were initially originated for translation purposes and you now want them to be reformatted for the SDH or for closed captioning purposes, just let us have the subtitle file in any format and we ll do that for you. Also, if your existing subtitles were formatted as srt, stl or any other format and you now need them to be in pac or different formats, we ll convert them for you instantly without any loss in synch.

7 7 THE TALENT BEHIND SUBTITLING If standard professional and technical translation demands special skills and qualifications, subtitling is an ever more complex task. It s not just about studying languages, speaking multiple languages fluently, being a bilingual person or a specialist in your areas of expertise. In subtitling you don t just transfer words and ideas while adapting them to the target language and readers. Subtitlers carry a message and stand in between cultural settings, almost like riding a horse and having one foot in the source language, the other in the target language. They constantly have to deal with idioms and slang both in the source and target languages. Due to time constraints and character limits that allow for a comfortable reading speed, they have to condense dialogue without losing the essence of it and still convey every single little nuance. Besides, they have to be proficient in spotting and synchronization according to the subtitling guidelines. They have to determine with utmost accuracy when exactly a subtitle should go on and off the screen based on the speech rhythm, they make sure subtitles don t go over a shot change wherever possible. They have to use straightforward syntactical units and distribute subtitle text from line to line in sense blocks and/or grammatical units. They have to allow for a comfortable reading speed and expose the subtitles for no less than one and no more than seven to eight seconds. This is why subtitling can be considered an art form in its own right. To make the most of your audiovisual production, you really want to have the best team of subtitlers.

8 8 KEEP CALM AND LEAVE SUBTITLING TO THE PROS Via Salvo D Acquisto, 25 - San Giorgio a Cr. Naples Italy T: info@itpros.it,