What goes into subtitling a training series
A training series is not one long video. It is a glossary, a reading speed and a delivery format, repeated across every episode.
Safety and compliance training travels well across borders, as long as people can follow it. Subtitling a series of videos is less about translating sentences and more about keeping three things steady from the first episode to the last.
One glossary, every episode
Equipment names, procedures and internal abbreviations have to read the same way in episode nine as in episode one, and they have to match the written manual the same team already uses. That glossary is agreed before the first subtitle is written.
Reading speed, not word count
A subtitle that is faithful but unreadable has failed. Lines are split where the sentence breathes, timing follows the speaker rather than the transcript, and reading speed is kept within what an audience can comfortably follow while also watching a demonstration on screen.
The files the platform expects
A learning platform, a social feed and a conference screen each want something different: a subtitle file to load alongside the video, or subtitles burned into the picture, in the aspect ratio the channel uses. We agree that at the start, because it changes how the subtitles are built, not just how they are exported.
If accessibility is part of the goal, audio description can be added on the same pass.