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Captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, and for compliance · 3 working days

Content Factory — closed captions

Closed captions are not subtitles with a different name. They carry the sound as well as the speech — who is speaking, the door slamming off screen, the music that tells you what to feel. Broadcasters and several platforms require them, and accessibility law requires them in a growing number of markets. NDA signed before anything is sent, and no title or client is named anywhere.

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What you receive

The handover

Finished files

Production-ready output in the format your printer, platform or workshop actually needs — press PDF, editable source, CAD file, font binary or deck, as the work requires.

Editable sources

The working files, not just the export, so your team can change the work later without coming back to us.

Full rights

Copyright transfers to you on final payment. Nothing we make for you is resold or reused elsewhere.

Two revision rounds

Included in the quoted price. Corrections are logged against the draft rather than argued over on a call.

How it works

Five steps, and you approve the first three

01 · Brief

You tell us what the finished thing has to do, and send whatever material you already have.

02 · Scope & price

A written scope, a fixed figure and a delivery date, usually within one working day.

03 · Structure

You sign off the architecture before production starts, so nothing large is built on a wrong assumption.

04 · Production

Work arrives in stages as it finishes, not all at the end, with two revision rounds included.

05 · Handover

Files, sources and rights in your hands, and the invoice closed.

Related in this division

Often commissioned together

In detail

Subtitling & captions — how we produce it

We deliver SRT, VTT, TTML or IMSC as required, with a QC pass against the picture. Dubbing scripts and character voice adaptation are quoted alongside. From $6.50 per minute.

Because writers, translators, designers, draughtspeople and typesetters sit in the same building in Chennai, this can be commissioned together with everything around it: translation into any of a hundred-plus languages, the figures and illustrations, the typesetting, the presentation and the production files. One schedule, one point of contact, one invoice.

Pricing is quoted in US dollars and fixed in writing before work starts. Fifty per cent is payable in advance and the balance on delivery, with long projects staged so neither side carries the whole risk. Two revision rounds are included, and copyright transfers to you in full on final payment, together with the editable source files.

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Send the locked picture or the file you have and Content Factory confirms the price and the delivery date, usually the same working day. NDA signed before anything is sent.

What decides whether this works

Four things that separate a usable file from a rejected one

Sound, not only dialogue

Non-speech audio that carries meaning is captioned — the knock, the gunshot, the tone of the music. Leaving it out removes half the story for a deaf viewer.

Speaker identification

Who is speaking, when it is not obvious on screen, by name or position. This is what separates a real caption file from a renamed subtitle file.

SDH against CC

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing sit in the subtitle stream; closed captions sit in the broadcast caption stream and carry positioning data. We deliver whichever your pipeline takes.

Compliance evidence

Broadcast and public-sector delivery often need a compliance statement alongside the file. Supplied where the receiving body asks for it.

Price and turnaround

Published prices, fixed before work starts

What Price Turnaround
Indian language subtitles, per feature film₹25,0003 working days
Foreign language subtitles, per feature film₹50,0003 working days
Additional language on the same filmQuoted per languageparallel, no extra time
Trailers, promos, songs and shortsQuoted per piece24 to 48 hours

Spotting and timing are included. Multiple languages on one film run in parallel rather than in sequence, so a simultaneous multi-language release does not multiply the schedule.

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Questions we are asked

Closed captions — cost and process

What does it cost?

₹25,000 per feature film for an Indian language, ₹50,000 for a foreign language, spotting and timing included. Other pieces are quoted per item and fixed in writing before work starts.

How fast?

Three working days for a full-length feature. Trailers and promos in 24 to 48 hours. Multiple languages run at the same time.

Which file formats?

SRT and VTT for streaming and review, EBU-STL for broadcast, timed XML for digital cinema packaging, and burnt-in where required. Tell us the pipeline and we deliver into it.

Is machine translation used?

No. Every file is written by a native speaker who has watched the material and reviewed by a second.

How is pre-release material handled?

An NDA is signed before anything is sent. Content Factory does not name titles or clients anywhere, including on this site.

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Questions

Before you commission

How much does subtitling & captions cost?

Prices are fixed in writing before work begins. Scope, language count and turnaround move the figure; volume across a programme brings it down. Send the brief and you have a number within a working day.

How long does it take?

Most single deliverables run three to fourteen weeks depending on length and complexity. Programmes are staged so early parts reach you while later parts are still in production. You get a date with the quote.

Who does the work?

A specialist from our global language services team, with an editor and a production person on the same project. Everyone is bound by the same confidentiality terms.

Do I own the result?

Yes. Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production-ready files on final payment. Nothing is resold or reused.

Can it be produced in other languages?

Yes — any of a hundred-plus languages, typeset in the same studio so layout and page numbers match across editions.

Do you work with clients outside India?

Yes. Publishers, institutions and founders in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and Japan. Work is delivered by email and shared drive and quoted in US dollars.

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Scale

Seven countries, a hundred cities

Delivered by email and shared drive, quoted in US dollars, scheduled against your time zone.

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Languages

A hundred-plus languages

Translation and typesetting in one studio, so layout matches across editions.

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Rights

You own everything

Full copyright transfer, editable sources and production files on final payment.

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Confidentiality

NDA before anything is sent

Most of our work carries the client’s name, not ours.

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The agency

Fifteen years in production

Writers, translators, designers and typesetters on the same project, in the same building.

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Approvals

You sign off before we build

Structure agreed before production starts, so nothing large rests on an unchecked assumption.

Send a brief

Tell us what you need made

Send the brief and we reply with a scope, a fixed price and a date — usually within one working day. Whole programmes are quoted the same way as single titles.

A written scope, fixed price and date, usually within one working day.
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