Translate an English video into German subtitles
English content in a German market needs German subtitles, and machine captions from the platform rarely produce them cleanly. This does it from the audio, not from YouTube's caption track.
Translation happens after the timing is fixed, which is why the subtitles stay in sync.
source · EnglishThe application has to be submitted by Friday.
German subtitleDer Antrag muss bis Freitag eingereicht werden.
00:00:12,480 → 00:00:15,120 · timecodes unchanged
Run one clip free
Free under 60 seconds, no account. Longer videos: 1 credit per minute.
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
- German pushes the verb to the end in subordinate clauses, so the spine of a sentence can be fifteen words apart. A cue cannot be finalised until the clause closes.
- Compound nouns (Antragsfrist, Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung) do not fit a 42-character line at all and have to be paraphrased.
- German is where line length becomes a hard constraint: one compound noun can fill a whole line, so the translation compresses before it breaks.
What it costs
Free under 60sno signup, no watermark
1 credit / minute$1 buys 20 credits
Both outputsSRT, or burned-in video
Questions
Will the German lines be too long for the screen?
Lines are kept short, but German usually runs longer than the English source, so a manual pass on line breaks is worth doing. German is where line length becomes a hard constraint: one compound noun can fill a whole line, so the translation compresses before it breaks.
Does it use YouTube's auto-captions?
No. It transcribes the audio itself, so it also works for files with no captions at all.
Can I get both languages?
Yes, bilingual output keeps the English line above the German one.
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