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English → Italian · timing preserved: Translate Subtitles from English to Italian
Italian sentences run longer than their English originals, so the hard part is fitting them into the same on-screen time. Upload an SRT, VTT or video and get Italian captions that keep every cue exactly where it was.
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Timing stays. Italian comes in.
launch-video.srtENIT
100:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100
We rebuilt the studio in winter.Abbiamo rifatto lo studio in inverno.
200:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,000
And since then every episode sounds warmer.Da allora ogni episodio suona più caldo.
300:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,900
People hear it right away.La gente lo sente subito.
Timecodes untouched
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What Changes When English Becomes Italian
Three things worth knowing before you ship Italian captions.
The same sentence typically grows by 15–20% moving from English to Italian: articles combine with prepositions, verb endings carry information English packs into short auxiliaries. A line that filled 40 characters in English lands well past the usual 42-character limit. Translation that respects subtitles has to compress — dropping a redundant subject pronoun, choosing a shorter synonym — rather than pushing text onto a third line.
Italian forces a choice English never makes: formal Lei or informal tu. Corporate training, documentaries and interviews with strangers normally take Lei; vlogs, fiction between friends and marketing aimed at a young audience take tu. The trap is mixing them halfway through a video, which reads as a translation error to any native speaker.
Decimal commas instead of points, day-first dates, guillemets or quotation marks depending on house style, and spacing rules that differ from English. Getting these wrong rarely breaks comprehension, but it marks the subtitles as machine output — the exact impression captions on a published video should avoid.
One English cue, translated into Italian
Italian grows by a few characters per line, and the register has to be chosen.
- 00:00:04,200 → 00:00:07,000
English: Check your settings before you start.
Italian: Controlla le impostazioni prima di iniziare.
- 00:00:07,400 → 00:00:09,300
English: Can you send me the file?
Italian: Puoi mandarmi il file?
The first line grows from 37 to 44 characters and still fits one row. The second uses informal tu; in a corporate video it would read “Può mandarmi il file?” with Lei.
English → Italian, Done Right
Italian runs longer than English; the timing does not move.
Compression, not overflow
Lines are shortened where Italian runs long, so captions stay inside two readable lines instead of spilling over.
Consistent register
Lei and tu stay consistent across the whole file rather than drifting between scenes.
Cues keep their English timing
Every Italian line inherits the start and end time of its English cue, so longer sentences are shortened, never re-timed.
Side-by-side review for Italian
Each Italian line sits next to its English source, so a compressed phrase or a Lei/tu choice is checked in seconds.
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Upload your English SRT or VTT file, or the video itself, and choose Italian as the target language. BlaBlaScribe translates every line with AI and keeps the original timestamps, so the Italian 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. Italian typically expands 15–20% over English, so lines are translated with the character limit in mind and shortened where they would otherwise run past two lines. You can review and trim any line before export.
You can adjust it. The translation picks a register from context and keeps it consistent, and every line is editable side by side with the English original before you export.
Yes. Files are written in UTF-8, so à, è, ì, ò, ù and apostrophes survive in both SRT and VTT.
Common streaming guidelines allow about 42 characters per line and two lines per cue. Italian reaches that limit sooner than English, so long sentences are rephrased to fit rather than split across a third line.
Yes. Pick a caption style and export an MP4 with the Italian subtitles burned in; it renders in your browser. Check that accented vowels such as à and è look right in the preview before you export the whole video.