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Film subtitling services: broadcast-grade, checked by people, flat-rate

In short: Fonti Studio subtitles features, series, and trailers for independent distributors, sales agents, and post houses. Every delivery is authored against the Netflix Timed Text spec and the BBC Subtitle Guidelines (what a licensed Netflix delivery has to contain is its own guide), reviewed and signed off by a named senior editor, and priced flat so the number is on this page instead of in a quote cycle.

What every subtitle delivery includes

• Spec compliance, first submission. ≤42 characters per line, ≤2 lines, ≤20 characters per second, 5/6 s to 7 s durations, 2-frame gaps, shot-aligned timing. Verified by automated conformance checks before the file leaves the building.
• Your house rules, enforced. Characters per line, reading speed limits, dash style, regional variants, your naming and formats: send a style guide and the whole pipeline is configured to it before the first line is translated, at no extra charge. No guide? Netflix spec by default.
• A locked glossary. Every recurring name, place, and term pinned to one canonical spelling across the whole deliverable, extracted from your CCSL or source subtitle.
• Faithful translation, verified. Whole sentences translated and re-segmented onto the original timing (why cue-by-cue SRT translation fails), register and idiom checked by an independent cross-model review pass, then a naturalness pass, then a senior editor's watch-through in our own QC review system, before delivery.
• Forced narrative tracks where the title needs them, delivered as separate FN files per platform convention.
• SDH on request, free. Speaker IDs and sound description, same price.
• The bilingual stack, free. Buy two subtitle languages on one title and the stacked dual-language file for Belgian, Swiss, or Quebec release is included.
• All the formats. SRT default; TTML, IMSC 1.1, EBU-TT-D, CEA-608/708 on request, generated at the measured frame rate so they cannot drift out of sync.

Pricing

Flat, EUR, no per-minute meter. From 10 titles a year: catalog invoicing across the slate. Full reasoning on why flat beats per-minute for indie economics is in the cost breakdown.

How it works

Email hello@fonti.studio with download links to the film, the trailer, and the CCSL or original-language SRT, plus your target languages. A producer reads every brief, typically within one business day, confirms scope and price, and locks in your house rules and glossary before the first line is translated.

The floor, measured

Reference delivery, The Last Kumite (2024), French and Dutch: 0 errors against the Netflix Branded Delivery subtitle spec across 1,212 cues per language, glossary locked across both. Details on the about page. Don't take the number on faith: run any subtitle file, ours included, through the free subtitle validator. It applies the same broadcast limits (line length, reading speed, durations, gaps, overlaps) in your browser, and the file never leaves your machine.

Common questions

How much do film subtitling services cost?

Fonti Studio prices flat, per language, by runtime: €100 for a 20-minute-plus episode, €200 for a 40-minute-plus episode, €400 for a feature. Trailer subtitles are always €50 per language. No per-minute meters, no QC surcharges, no quote cycle.

What subtitle formats do you deliver?

SRT is the default deliverable. TTML, IMSC 1.1, EBU-TT-D (Tech 3350) and CEA-608/708 conversions are available on request, generated from the same millisecond-accurate master at the measured frame rate of your video.

Do you do SDH and closed captions?

Yes. SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, with speaker IDs and sound description) is available on request at no extra charge, alongside the standard dialogue track.

Do you deliver forced narrative tracks?

Yes, as standard on any title with on-screen text or foreign-language dialogue: a standalone FN file per language, timed against the picture, with the FN events also folded into the full subtitle files, per platform spec.

How fast is delivery?

Subtitle masters within 48 hours of a producer approving your brief and payment, for features up to 180 minutes. A full feature dub takes about four weeks.