A browser-first workflow for multilingual video subtitles
Video subtitle translation looks simple until you need the result to be readable on screen. A useful workflow has to keep timestamps, allow review, preserve terminology, and produce files that editors can reuse.
1. Start with a timestamped transcript
Treat transcription as structured data rather than a paragraph of text. Each segment needs a start time, end time, and editable source sentence. This makes it possible to fix names, numbers, acronyms, and sentence boundaries before translation.
2. Translate in subtitle-sized units
