Translate a Chinese video into Japanese subtitles
Chinese to Japanese is one of the pairs where a dictionary gets you most of the way and then stops. Chinese has no sentence ending and Japanese requires one, so the same thought grows by a few characters. That is usually where a single line stops fitting.
The timing comes from the audio, so a line lands where it is actually spoken.
source · Chinese我们明天上午十点出发去机场。
Japanese subtitle明日の午前十時に空港へ出発します。
same cue, same timecode · 汉字 → 假名+汉字
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What happens to your video
- Upload the file or paste a public link. Phone footage (HEVC/MOV) is read as it comes off the phone.
- The audio is transcribed first, with word-level timing, so every cue starts where speech starts.
- Each line is translated on its own. Timecodes are copied through and never rewritten.
- Download the SRT, or a copy of the video with the subtitles burned in at the original resolution.
Notes on the audio
- Chinese has no sentence ending and Japanese requires one, so the same thought grows by a few characters. That is usually where a single line stops fitting.
- Mandarin has no tense endings, so 我吃了 / 我在吃 / 我要吃 are the same verb with different particles. The English tense is inferred from context and time words.
- Japanese subtitles usually run one line per cue. When the English translation does not fit, break it into two cues rather than shrinking the font.
What it costs
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Both outputsSRT, or burned-in video
Questions
Do you translate through English?
The engine works from the Chinese audio and produces Japanese directly; the English gloss is only for this page.
How accurate is it?
A Chinese character carries more meaning than an English word, so the same line takes far less room in Chinese than in the English translation. Expect the subtitle to grow by roughly a third when it comes back. On top of that, review proper nouns by hand before publishing.
Can I keep the Chinese line as reference?
Yes, bilingual output keeps both lines in one file.
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