Audiovisual Translation and Subtitling Course

Name: Audiovisual Translation and Subtitling Course
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Learn the principles of Subtitling, Dubbing, and More

Created byYassine El Rhaffouli

Last updated 8/2025

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What you'll learn

Knowledge of best practices in subtitling and dubbing
The ability to apply the learned skills to fragments of movies, documentaries, and shows that you will translate into your target language
The ability to use open-source software to create subtitles and dubbing scripts
The skills to translate and localize video content (movies, documentaries, and shows) into your target language
The ability to create fully localized video content

Course content

3 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 31m total length

Introduction5:49
Explore audiovisual translation as a long-standing professional practice that expanded since the 1990s, enabling subtitling, dubbing, voiceover, and accessibility through sign language, audio description, and subtitles.
The Scope of AVT3:30
Discover the scope of audiovisual translation (AVT) and its growing role in global news, digital formats, and social access through subtitling and audio description.
Types of AVT4:32
Explore audiovisual translation terminology and types like dubbing, voice over, free commentary, signing, audio description, subtitling, and versioning across film, TV, games, and digital media.
Types of Subtitling1:42
Explore intra lingual closed captions, inter lingual open captions, and bilingual or trilingual subtitling, and use live and real-time subtitles created with automated speech recognition for broadcasts, interviews, and opera.
Video Localization1:16
Video localization translates a video by updating audio narration, dubbing, on-screen text, music, and video edits to synchronize with a new voiceover track, using source files.
What is Source File1:15
Identify the source file and its role, detailing how a video source contains hundreds of components—graphics, logos, 3D models, voiceover, and music—and how five projects are required for localisation.
Why You Should Replace Video Elements During Localization1:21
Replace video elements during localization to preserve the semantic load of infographics and textual explanations. Retake screenshots or video captures to demonstrate apps or services in the viewer's native language.
Why Do You Need to Change the Lengths of Scenes During Localization2:30
Explore why changing scene lengths during localization ensures synchronized video and native voiceover, comparing adapting voiceover to video versus adjusting video to voiceover, with trade-offs in timing and meaning.
Creating a New Voiceover or Dubbing the Video1:39
Learn to create a new voiceover or dub a video, including economical options that do not require source files and full replacement with a native-speaking voice artist and new music.
Creating Subtitles2:05
Create subtitles by transcribing, translating the voiceover, and synchronizing five-to-15-word fragments with time codes, and save them as a separate file for easy translation and YouTube integration.

Getting Started with the Software3:37
Learn to start subtitling with subtitle edit, import videos, and use the program's tools to create, synchronize, and edit subtitles, with translation covered later in the course.
Starting the Captioning Process10:22
Import a video, generate automatic time codes from the waveform, merge segments for coherent transcription, and annotate music or sounds for accessible subtitles.
Adding More Subtitles2:54
Add descriptive subtitles for the visually impaired by labeling video segments and copying descriptive text across sections while noting audience cues.
Exporting Subtitles for Online Publishing3:03
Save the project as a subtitle file, run a grammar check, and fix spelling with the spell checker for online publishing in YouTube subtitle video format.
Burning Subtitles Onto the Video2:34
Learn how to burn subtitles into a video using Handbrake, including importing the original video and an SRT file, setting the output, and starting the encoding process.
Subtitling Project 1
Translating a Video Using Subtitles2:55
Translate a video by refining subtitles from English to Arabic, starting with a Google Translate draft, then editing for accuracy; export as subtitle file or burn on video with HandBrake.
Subtitling Project 2
Subtitling Project 3

Getting Started with Premiere Pro5:53
Learn the basics of Premiere Pro and Audition for audiovisual translation, creating a new project, creating a sequence, importing video, and recording voice over for dubbed subtitles.
Recording Voiceover2:35
Record a translated voiceover using Adobe Audition, read from a script, create an Arabic voiceover file, record, apply noise reduction, and prepare to align with the original audio.
Arranging Audio6:30
Create a new multi-track session for Arabic voice over, import the original file, mark and cut speech, remove silence, adjust volume with keyframes, then export to replace the original audio.
Exporting Translated Video3:21
Learn to replace the original audio with edited voiceover, unlink and delete the old track, import and align the new Arabic voiceover, trim silence, and export the final translated video.
Separating Voiceover from Original Auido by Tracks6:42
Learn to export a video with multiple audio tracks, keeping the original audio on one track and adding a translated voiceover on a four-channel track with routing (1–2 and 3–4).
Voiceover Project
Voiceover Project 2
Start the Dubbing Process3:09
utilize Adobe Audition to create a multi-track dubbing workflow, align translation with the original speech, achieve lip sync, and match reading speed for natural-sounding dubbing.
Arranging the Audio for Dubbing6:25
Edit the audio for dubbing by removing silences and breaths, rearranging to match the original, rehearse, and export the dubbed video with optional sound effects, ambient music on separate tracks.
Exporting the Dubbed Video5:27
Import the Arabic dubbed audio, replace the original track, and export the video with stereo settings while configuring a two-channel mix and reverb for a lecture hall.
Dubbing Project1
Dubbing Project 2

Requirements

Students are expected to possess advanced-level proficiency in English and at least one other language.
Knowledge of at Least One Foreign Language
Computer with Internet Connection
Adobe Subscription (Premiere Pro & Audition)
Subtitle Edit

Description

With the explosion of digital video content in today’s world, it is only natural that much of that content demands to be localized and translated. Translators are required to translate videos so they can be streamed, shared, or embedded online. To cater to this explosion of video demand, audiovisual translation has emerged as a new field with several modalities: subtitling, dubbing, closed captioning, audio-description, and script translation. This language-neutral course provides the essential tools for producing translations in the main modalities. It also presents the best practices in the field for high-quality audiovisual translations. The course is taught in English and is very practical in nature. All assignments will be hands-on, and participants will translate media into their own target language.

During the program, you will be practicing with audiovisual genres material such as:

Advertisements
Documentaries
Talk shows

This course is not a language-based course. Therefore, we won't get into the theories of translation nor will we practice actual translation processes.

YOU'LL LEARN:

Knowledge of best practices in subtitling and dubbing, and the ability to apply them to fragments of movies, documentaries, and shows that you will translate into your target language
The ability to use open-source software to create subtitles and dubbing scripts
The skills to translate and localize video content (movies, documentaries, and shows) into your target language
The ability to create fully localized video content

Who this course is for

Interpreters, students, and professionals interested in the field of audiovisual media translation
Translators who need a review of subtitling and voice replacement techniques

Who this course is for:

students, and professionals interested in the field of audiovisual media translation
Translators who need a review of subtitling and voice replacement techniques

Audiovisual Translation and Subtitling Course

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Course content

Basic Concepts10 lectures • 26min

Captioning & Subtitling Practice6 lectures • 25min

Dubbing & Voice-over Practice8 lectures • 40min

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