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What do you consider a decent subtitle rate/ rate per run-time minute?
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Helene Olsen Richards
Helene Olsen Richards  Identity Verified
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Jul 28, 2022

Hi all,

I am sure it has been posted before but could not find any recent posts. What would you consider or accept as a decent subtitle rate? Specifically for Nordic region if anyone out there can respond to that. Thank you
 
Sadek_A
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Surprise! Jul 28, 2022

A range of $40:$80, depending on all the relevant factors we already know, and provided written source text is furnished along with the video.

Expensive? Maybe. But, flawless subtitling is just as tiresome as it is deservedly expensive, and not everything is worthy of being subtitled, just like not everything is worthy of being translated.

Subtitling is = Translation (one fee) + Audiovisual Management (another fee)

They are now paying roughly one twentieth ... See more
A range of $40:$80, depending on all the relevant factors we already know, and provided written source text is furnished along with the video.

Expensive? Maybe. But, flawless subtitling is just as tiresome as it is deservedly expensive, and not everything is worthy of being subtitled, just like not everything is worthy of being translated.

Subtitling is = Translation (one fee) + Audiovisual Management (another fee)

They are now paying roughly one twentieth of that range's minimum value, AFAIR. Nothing that could get any decent translator venture into that sticky domain.

Don't know about Nordic, though. ▲ Collapse
 
Jan Truper
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Allemagne
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... Jul 29, 2022

Helene Olsen Richards wrote:

What would you consider or accept as a decent subtitle rate?



For what job, exactly?

(Spotting? Spotting and translating? Translating a provided template? What kind of material? Direct client or agency?)

[Edited at 2022-07-29 09:41 GMT]
 


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