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English → French · timing preserved: Translate Subtitles from English to French
French says the same thing in more words than English, and it has its own rules for punctuation and forms of address. Upload an SRT, VTT or video and get French captions that fit on screen and keep the original timing.
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Timing stays. French comes in.
launch-video.srtENFR
100:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100
We rebuilt the studio in winter.Nous avons refait le studio cet hiver.
200:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,000
And since then every episode sounds warmer.Depuis, chaque épisode sonne plus chaleureux.
300:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,900
People hear it right away.Les gens l'entendent tout de suite.
Timecodes untouched
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What Changes When English Becomes French
Three things worth knowing before you ship French captions.
English packs meaning into short words and noun stacks; French unfolds them into prepositional phrases and longer verb forms. A sentence that sat comfortably on one English line often needs most of two in French. Subtitles that read well are condensed on purpose: a redundant clause dropped, a shorter turn of phrase chosen, rather than a third line or text that flashes past too quickly.
English has a single “you”; French makes the speaker choose. Interviews, training, corporate video and anything addressing an audience normally take vous; friends, family and casual vlogs take tu. Switching between the two halfway through a file is one of the most visible signs of machine translation, because nothing in the English tells the model which one was meant.
In France, a narrow non-breaking space goes before the colon, semicolon, question mark and exclamation mark, quotations use guillemets, and times are written with an h. Canadian French follows slightly different conventions. None of this changes the meaning, but getting it wrong marks the subtitles as unedited output.
One English cue, translated into French
French adds words, a polite form and its own punctuation.
- 00:00:01,500 → 00:00:04,000
English: Can you send me the file before Friday?
French: Pouvez-vous m’envoyer le fichier avant vendredi ?
- 00:00:04,400 → 00:00:06,800
English: The meeting starts at 9:30.
French: La réunion commence à 9 h 30.
The first line grows from 39 to 49 characters and uses the polite form for a colleague. French also puts a narrow space before the question mark and writes the time with an h instead of a colon.
English → French, Done Right
French takes more words; the timing stays exactly where it was.
Condensed to fit two lines
Where French runs long, sentences are tightened during translation so each cue stays inside two readable lines.
Vous or tu, held throughout
The form of address is chosen from context and kept the same from the first cue to the last.
Cues keep their English timing
French lines inherit the start and end time of each English cue, so longer sentences are condensed, never re-timed.
Punctuation checked before export
Each French line sits next to its English source, so spacing before question marks, guillemets and times can be fixed before you ship.
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Upload your English SRT or VTT file, or the video itself, and choose French as the target language. BlaBlaScribe translates every line with AI and keeps the original timestamps, so the French subtitles stay in sync with the speech. Fix the wording in the editor, then download SRT or VTT or export an MP4 with the subtitles burned in. Translation is available on paid plans from $14 a month.
That is the main thing to check. French typically runs 15–20% longer than English, so lines are condensed during translation to stay inside two lines instead of spilling onto a third. You can shorten any line further in the editor before export.
Yes. The register is inferred from the material and applied consistently across the file, and every line stays editable next to the English original if your style guide says otherwise.
The translation targets standard European French, which is understood in Quebec as well. Vocabulary and spacing conventions specific to Canada can be adjusted line by line in the editor before you export.
Common streaming guidelines allow about 42 characters per line and two lines per cue. French reaches that limit faster than English, so wording is condensed rather than pushed onto a third line.
Yes. Pick a caption style and export an MP4 with the French subtitles burned in; it renders in your browser. Accented letters such as é, è, à and ç are kept, so check line ends in the preview before you export.