Japanese Subtitling Service

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Maximise the impact on your target audience, with Matinée’s Japanese subtitling service

  • Affordable Japanese subtitling (closed captions) delivered with minimum fuss
  • We have over 40 years experience in the subtitles industry
  • Your Japanese subtitles burnt into your video or as an SRT file
  • Matinée deliver subtitles and closed captions in over 80 languages

You’ll find out why our clients come back to us again and again for their voice-over, subtitling and translation needs.

 

Rates

Prices Start From Just £160

Package 1

£160

Includes:

  • Up to 10 minutes of video
  • Transcription
  • SRT Delivery
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Package 2

£270

Includes:

  • Up to 10 minutes of video
  • Transcription
  • Burned in subtitles
  • One round of amendments
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Package 3

£400

Includes:

  • Up to 10 minutes of video
  • Transcription
  • Translations
  • Burned in subtitles
  • One round of amendments
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Bespoke Package

Custom

Complex or large project? No problem, contact us for a personalised quote.

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Japanese Closed Captions Case Study

Honeywell Corporate promo with Japanese Closed Captions (subtitles)

Honeywell required an Japanese video translation of their corporate promo, including Japanese subtitling (closed captions). Working in partnership with Honeywell’s translation vendor, Matinée were contracted to:

  • transcribe and time-code the English audio and on-screen captions
  • produce Japanese subtitles (using the supplied translations)
  • localise the on-screen text and animations in Japanese (using the supplied translations)
    burn-in the Japanese subtitles and encode .mov & .mp4 files

We also subtitled the video in Turkish and localised it in Russian (including a Russian voice-over).

Testimonials

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Tom Hart
7 months ago
I used Matinée Multilingual for an important and time sensitive project that was needed for a new business launch.

The team were great at keeping us updated on the progress and everything was delivered on time.

Would definitely recommend!
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Lilli Murphy
7 months ago
Great experience with Matinee, really quick responses and accurate QC-ing. Will be in touch for our next project!
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Riccardo Piccinini
10 months ago
Super positive experience working with the team! very professional yet approachable and friendly. We will work with them again in the future for sure! 100% recommended
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Tracy Nampala
11 months ago
We had the pleasure of recording with Matinée linking up from London for an animation project. Everything went brilliantly with our voice actor in the studio, whilst we connected from London. I highly recommend the engineers and professional expertise of Matinée. Great technical session with smooth communication. We hope to work with the studio in the near future.
We’ve had a great experience working with Matinée Multilingual on both AI and human voice projects. The team are super responsive, explain everything clearly, and deliver quality on time. Thank you Callum and team!
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Jon Essex
1 year ago
Matinée Multilingual recently wrapped up a voice-over recording project in nine languages for a health and safety film intended for engineering sites worldwide. Their service was outstanding, collaborating with us every step of the way to ensure a successful, timely completion within our budget. They kept us well-informed throughout the process and delivered finished audio files promptly in our requested format and numbering. Matinée Multilingual is our trusted partner for foreign language translations and voice-over recordings.

Thanks,
Jon Essex
Managing Director
Squareye Television Limited
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Frankie Price
2 years ago
We (Westhill Communications) recently worked with Matinee Multilingual on a Portuguese voiceover recording for an animation, and the experience was nothing short of amazing. They came recommended by a colleague, and it’s easy to see why. Even with our modest budget, they went above and beyond to deliver a result that blew us away.
Kayleigh, who managed our project, was an absolute star. She was so friendly and professional, always keeping us in the loop without overwhelming us with too much information. We got regular updates, a great selection of voiceover artists to choose from, and all the key details we needed, it was just the right balance of communication.
The whole process was smooth, easy, and completely stress-free. Honestly, we couldn’t have asked for better service. If you need translations, editing, or voiceover recordings, we’d recommend Matinee in a heartbeat. Huge thanks to Kayleigh and the team for doing such a brilliant job!
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Willie McDowell
2 years ago
Really accommodating team. Super professional and very flexible with a scheduling change. 10/10 service and recording
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Tamsyn Seimon
2 years ago
Matinée Multilingual has done an outstanding job sourcing voice talent and recording voiceovers for 20 language versions of an animated health education video. I’ve particularly appreciated their persistence in identifying voice actors for some less common languages (Rohingya, Karen, Khmer) that they originally thought they would not be able to deliver. They have been responsive, flexible, patient throughout a long process. And most importantly, Matinée has consistently provided top quality voice recordings. I would not hesitate to work with Matinée again on future projects.
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Greg Flynn
2 years ago
Matinée have excellent communication from initial enquiry to project close. They delivered on time after we had changed our requirements and the quality of the narrations we asked for was exceptional in both English and Cymraeg. If we have future audio recording needs we would ask for their services again.
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Lucy Hamill
2 years ago
Worked with Matinee Multilingual for the first time recently and will definitely be using them for any of our translation and VO needs in the future. Callum and Ulrike were incredibly helpful and delivered exactly what we needed with a super fast turnaround! A friendly team with quick & great quality service!!
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Daniel Gwynne
3 years ago
We’ve been using Matinee Multilingual for a long time now for our International VO services. Prompt, professional and high quality, well sourced voices. Always when we need it.
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Karis Jones-Hogg
3 years ago
Matinee always provides an excellent service and is our go-to company for all our subtitling and translation needs. The team are friendly, efficient and deliver on time. We have never been let down.
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Simon Powers
3 years ago
Excellent service and very helpful throughout. Great end result for our project.
Closed caption services

Japanese subtitling production made simple

A complete package of subtitling services, tailored to make the process stress free

  1. Transcription – we create a script we can work from, with timecodes added, to identify exactly where each subtitle appears in the video
  2. Translation – when required we can organise translation into your target languages. We take care here, as the translated text must be shortened to fit the available space on screen
  3. Subtitle creation – once the translations have been agreed, we’ll synchronise the on-screen text with the visual cues on screen. We can also translate and edit non-spoken titles and captions that appear on-screen if required.

Japanese Subtitling & Closed Captions – how can we help?

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Japanese Language History

Your dedicated Project Manager has everything covered

One of our dedicated and experienced Project Managers will work with you to guide you through each step in the delivery of your Japanese subtitling project. They will review your source materials at the outset, to ensure we have everything that’s needed to provide a well-planned solution.

Your Project Manager will organise the translations as required, create a time-coded script for the subtitles engineer, schedule the studio time, and track the progress through production. In their capable hands, your subtitles project will be delivered within budget and on time.

We have some fabulous reviews which bear testimony to our friendly and professional voiceover recording and subtitling services.

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Let us know your requirements and we’ll send you a cost for your project within 1 hour. Please try and give us as much information as possible. To provide an accurate quote, we would need to know the length of the video, along with the source and target languages. If you don’t have all of this information just yet, our friendly Account Management team will try to help as much as possible.

You will find our production quality second to none, and our service level to be top notch. We have a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of subtitling and closed captions, and use the latest software to complete all subtitling tasks. We work on a variety of projects including TV advertising, corporate and educational videos, business presentations and e-learning.

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Japanese is spoken by 2.5 million people in Japan. You can also hear it in South America and the United States. Brazil also has a large Japanese population.

There are many, many words in the Japanese language that come from China and some words are from Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. This came about because of the Missionaries who came to Japan in the 14th century. English has also been readily adopted by modern day Japanese speakers.

Texts in Japanese were not produced until around the 8th century, before that writing was done using the Chinese system. The Japanese language has three language systems which are used according to social status. There is polite, respectful and humble language.

Japan also has a number of different dialects. The main divisions are between north and south and are called the Tokyo type and the Kyoto-Osaka type. Popular dialects are Nagoya Ben, Hokkaido Ben, Osaka Ben and Hakata Ben.

Many students from China and Korea attend Japanese universities and language courses and it continues to attract students in Britain and America, who want to learn Japanese as a second language.

Blog and case studies

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A Guide to Burnt-in Subtitle Styles: Which Best Fits Your Content?

When choosing a subtitling style, it is useful to consider where the video will be shown, aesthetic elements already in your video, and the technical requirements of your video. We have long since used the following guide to display the options available to our clients in a straightforward manner, so we thought we would publish it on our blog.

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