Content Factory — indian language subtitling

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.

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.

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.

The scripts do not behave alike

Tamil conjuncts need proper OpenType shaping. Telugu and Kannada vowel signs stack above and below and clip at ordinary line height. Malayalam has an old and a new orthography that must not be mixed. Each needs its own font and line-break handling, or the projector renders broken glyphs.

Dialect, not just language

A Madurai idiom is not a Chennai idiom, and a Telangana line is not a coastal Andhra line. The subtitle has to sound like the region the character is from, which is a casting decision as much as a translation one.

Songs are a separate decision

Whether to subtitle a song at all, whether to translate meaning or rhyme, and whether to italicise. We ask rather than assume, because producers differ and it changes the feel of the sequence.

Simultaneous multi-language release

Five Indian languages on the same film run in parallel, not in sequence. Three working days covers all of them, because that is how Indian theatrical release actually works.

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. In a script you cannot read, machine errors are the ones nobody catches until the film is in a cinema.

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.

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.