Translate an English video into Russian subtitles
English content in a Russian market needs Russian 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 · EnglishWe talked to the neighbours, and they agreed.
Russian subtitleМы поговорили с соседями, и они согласились.
00:00:12,480 → 00:00:15,120 · timecodes unchanged
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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
- Russian case endings free up word order: the same sentence can be arranged five ways. Translation reorders by meaning, not by position.
- Aspect (perfective vs imperfective) changes how an action sits in time, and English often has to add a clause to recover it.
- Transliterated Russian is usually longer than the Cyrillic original, so the English subtitle takes more room than the source line did.
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 Russian lines be too long for the screen?
Lines are kept short, but Russian usually runs longer than the English source, so a manual pass on line breaks is worth doing. Transliterated Russian is usually longer than the Cyrillic original, so the English subtitle takes more room than the source line did.
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 Russian one.
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