For over 26 years, our subtitle creation services have helped filmmakers, educators, marketers, and broadcasters across the USA turn spoken video into accurate subtitles, closed captions, and clean SRT files that viewers actually read.
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Send us your video files and we’ll help you pick the right subtitle format, turnaround, and language options for your project — whether that’s one clip or a full season.
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Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers deserve better than auto-captions. We include speaker IDs, sound cues, and music notes, formatted to meet ADA, FCC, and Section 508 requirements.
Subtitles in Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, and 40 more. Native linguists handle the translation, so idioms land the way the speaker meant them — not the way software guesses.
SRT, VTT, SBV, SCC, or ASS — whatever your platform needs. Files come back correctly timed, properly encoded, and ready to upload to YouTube, Vimeo, or your LMS without a single fix.
Open captions burned straight into the video, styled to match your brand. Ideal for social clips that autoplay on mute, where viewers never touch the caption button anyway.
Course modules, training videos, all-hands recordings. Consistent terminology across every file in the library, because half-matched glossaries confuse learners more than no subtitles at all.
Timing Subtitles that appear when the words do. Every cue is checked against the timeline, so nothing lags a beat behind the dialogue or lingers into the next shot.
NDAs, restricted access, encrypted transfer — the fundamentals done right. Unreleased footage stays unreleased. If a project matters to you, it gets treated that way here.
We set deadlines and we don’t move them. The date we give you is the day the subtitle files land, even when the audio arrives in rough shape.
Real subtitlers review every file, not software. That means context gets caught, sound-alike errors get flagged, and there’s a person to call when something looks off.
No hidden line items, no surprise rush fee at checkout. Straightforward rates that flex to how your team works — per video minute, per file, or per project.
Your video files are securely uploaded to our encrypted, cloud-based platform.
A qualified subtitler transcribes, times, and formats your file under strict quality and confidentiality standards.
Our Quality Analyst reviews every cue line by line against the video for accuracy and timing.
Your finished subtitle files are delivered overnight — correctly encoded and ready to publish.
Our subtitle creation services start at USD $1.50 per video minute, with clear, upfront pricing and no hidden fees. Rates depend on turnaround, language pair, and subtitle format. American Transcription Services builds pricing for teams that care about accuracy, compliance, and getting the same quality on file fifty as on file one.
What is subtitle creation? Subtitle creation is the process of converting spoken dialogue in a video into timed on-screen text. It covers transcription, timecoding each caption cue, and exporting files like SRT or VTT. Professional providers such as American Transcription Services use trained human subtitlers rather than automatic speech recognition, so terminology, accents, and overlapping speech are handled correctly instead of guessed at.
How much do subtitle creation services cost? Professional subtitling generally runs from USD $1.50 per video minute, shifting with turnaround speed, audio quality, and whether translation is involved. Foreign language subtitles cost more than same-language captions because a native linguist is doing the work. Our pricing is upfront, with no rush surcharges added at checkout, and can be quoted per minute, per file, or per project.
How do I find reliable subtitle creation near me? Look past the ranking and check three things: whether real people do the subtitling, whether the provider delivers your exact file format, and whether accuracy is actually guaranteed. Since files are uploaded and returned online, your provider doesn’t need to be in your city. We handle subtitle creation for clients in all 50 states with the same turnaround.
What subtitle file formats do you deliver? We deliver SRT, VTT, SBV, SCC, ASS, and TTML, plus burned-in open captions rendered directly into your video. Tell us where the video is going — YouTube, Vimeo, Brightcove, an LMS, or broadcast — and we’ll supply the format that platform expects, correctly encoded so you’re not reformatting anything after delivery.
Are subtitles and closed captions the same thing? No. Subtitles assume the viewer can hear the audio and mainly carry the dialogue. Closed captions are built for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and add speaker identification, sound effects, and music cues. Captions are what ADA, FCC, and Section 508 compliance requires. We produce both, so tell us which one your project needs.
Do you create subtitles in other languages? Yes. We produce foreign language subtitles in over 40 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic. Native-speaking linguists translate and time each file, keeping reading speed comfortable and meaning intact. Idioms, humor, and technical vocabulary get handled by someone who understands both languages, not by machine translation.
How accurate are your subtitles, and what’s the turnaround? Our subtitles are guaranteed 99%+ accurate. Every file is created by a qualified human subtitler and then reviewed line by line by a separate quality analyst before it ships. Standard delivery is overnight, clean and ready to publish. Faster turnaround is available — send us your deadline and we’ll match a schedule to it.
