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  • Posted by Alejandro Torres on August 29, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Hello everyone!

    I don’t think this is the appropriate forum to post this but as it has a high traffic and I use AE I thought someone might know…

    I was asked to translate a CEO’s message to the employees of a very large international company (I can’t disclose the name) and to subtitle the video in which he is talking.

    It must be and English to Spanish translation. I really don’t know how much I should charge for the translation of the message and for the subtitling of the video.

    Should I charge per minute? per word? for the whole project?

    Has anyone done such a job that could advise me? I need to send an estimate as soon as possible.

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Alejandro

    Alejandro Torres replied 18 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Rene Aguilar

    August 29, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    Mail me to respond. i can do it!
    r e n e d a g u i l a r @ g m a i l . c o m

  • Erik Pontius

    August 29, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    Few years ago a project I was working on needed to be farmed out to a translation/subtitling house to be subtitled in a variety of different languages and dumped to Beta SP. If I remember correctly, charges were between 900-1100 dollars per video (depending on the language). This was an approximately 8 min video. Oh, that didn’t include the translation since we supplied the translated versions of the script to them.

    Erik

  • Alejandro Torres

    August 29, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    Hey thank you very much for this, although I’m a little confused as I saw some really cheap ($6 per minute) offerings on the internet… Anyways, thank you very much for the tip.

    Can anyone clarify this to me?

    Regards

    Alejandro

  • Alejandro Torres

    August 29, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    Hey, thanks for the offer but I know how to, I just need to know how much to charge… and I believe it’s pretty difficult sending an entire DVD through the internet don’t you think?

    Thanks

    Alejandro

  • Erik Pontius

    August 30, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    I don’t think a professional house would charge $6 a minute. I think these guys were using more professional equipment to do this, we had something like 8 or more different languages including Japanese and Mandarin.
    This was the company that did the work:
    https://www.sdimediagroup.com/

    There was probably some markup included in that pricing, since this was the quote we got from the production house, who hired the translation company…I’m sure they took a cut.

    Erik

  • Alejandro Torres

    August 30, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    Thanks for clearing this out for me. Now I have an idea of how much to charge.

    Regards

    Alejandro

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