Best Multimedia Translation Services

Multimedia translation is one project covering mixed assets - video, audio, slides, graphics and text - that must all match when published. The work goes to linguists who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier.

Typically teams publishing a launch, a course or a campaign as a set of linked files. In each case someone downstream relies on the file being correct, so a detail that is right in one file and wrong in the next is not a small problem, and a second reviewer checks the work before it is sent. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

Text burned into graphics is rebuilt from the source artwork, since it cannot be replaced in the exported file. Nothing there is an upgrade, and work that falls outside the agreed multimedia translation brief is priced separately and only once you have agreed to it. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

Yes. Multimedia translation is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and translation at $0.10 per word. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Multimedia translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Quotes are calculated from what the material is, how long it runs and how quickly you need it back, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.

Urgent work is covered by rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours, depending on length and how difficult the source is. Multimedia translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. Longer jobs are split across a coordinated team working from one style sheet, so speed never costs consistency.

Work is done by human linguists and compared with the original before it is sent, which is how the 99+% accuracy standard is met. What gets checked on multimedia translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. One person working alone would not catch a detail that is right in one file and wrong in the next.

Yes. Everyone who touches your material signs an NDA, transfer is encrypted, and access is limited to the people assigned to the job, usually one linguist and one reviewer. Multimedia translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Your own agreement can be signed before the first file is sent.

You choose: editable Word or Google Docs, a searchable PDF for filing, or Excel where the content belongs in a table. The format for multimedia translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. Send a template once and every later order follows it.

The practical part is this: one glossary runs across every asset, so a term spoken in a video matches the label in the slide beside it. It is agreed with you before anyone starts, because the alternative is a first delivery built on a guess and a second round of work to undo it. The translator works into their own first language, which is what keeps long text readable instead of merely correct.