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English → German · timing preserved: Translate Subtitles from English to German
German is the classic subtitle problem: the same sentence needs noticeably more space than in English. Upload an SRT, VTT or video and get German captions that stay within readable lines and keep the original timing.
SRT & VTT in and out · videos up to 8 GB · no credit card needed
Timing stays. German comes in.
launch-video.srtENDE
100:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100
We rebuilt the studio in winter.Wir haben das Studio im Winter umgebaut.
200:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,000
And since then every episode sounds warmer.Seitdem klingt jede Folge wärmer.
300:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,900
People hear it right away.Das hören die Leute sofort.
Timecodes untouched
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What Changes When English Becomes German
Three things worth knowing before you ship German captions.
This is the single biggest constraint in English-to-German subtitling. Compound nouns, separable verbs and longer function words push most sentences well past the 42-character line limit. A translation that reads perfectly in a document routinely fails on screen: three lines instead of two, or text that stays up too briefly to read. Useful German subtitles are compressed on purpose.
Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung and Rechtschreibprüfung are single words, and German orthography restricts where they may be split. When such a word lands at the end of a line, the fix is usually rephrasing the sentence — not breaking the word.
Business, instructional and public-facing video normally takes Sie; content aimed at a younger audience, gaming and casual vlogs take du. Mixing them inside one video is the most common giveaway of machine translation, because English gives the model no signal to work from except context.
One English cue, translated into German
German adds characters and turns two English words into one.
- 00:00:01,800 → 00:00:04,300
English: Upload your video to get started.
German: Laden Sie Ihr Video hoch, um loszulegen.
- 00:00:04,700 → 00:00:06,900
English: The subtitle settings are on the right.
German: Die Untertiteleinstellungen sind rechts.
The first line grows from 33 to 40 characters and uses formal Sie. In the second, “subtitle settings” becomes the single word Untertiteleinstellungen, which the line cannot split.
English → German, Done Right
German takes more room; the timing stays exactly where it was.
Written to fit, not just to translate
Sentences are compressed where German expands, so captions stay within two readable lines.
Sie or du, consistently
The form of address is chosen from context and held across the whole file.
Cues keep their English timing
German lines inherit the start and end time of each English cue, so longer sentences are tightened, never re-timed.
Compounds reviewed in context
Each German line sits next to its English source, so an unwieldy compound or a stray du in a Sie video is caught before export.
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Upload your English SRT or VTT file, or the video itself, and choose German as the target language. BlaBlaScribe translates every line with AI and keeps the original timestamps, so the German 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.
German runs roughly 25–30% longer than English. Lines are shortened while translating — redundant words dropped, shorter synonyms chosen — so captions stay inside the usual two-line limit instead of spilling over. Anything you disagree with can be edited before export.
Yes. The register is inferred from the material and applied consistently, and every line stays editable next to the English original.
Yes. SRT and VTT files are written in UTF-8, so ä, ö, ü and ß come through intact in any current player.
Common streaming guidelines allow about 42 characters per line and two lines per cue. German reaches that limit quickly, so the translation compresses wording instead of spilling onto a third line.
Yes. Pick a caption style and export an MP4 with the German subtitles burned in; it renders in your browser. Long compounds cannot reflow once burned in, so check line ends in the preview first.