When translating a creative, original, well-crafted project proposalor any sort of confidential text, it’s important to ensure that the resulting translation is up to standard and does not misconstrue your creative intent or jeopardize the integrity of your business. 

The best way to guarantee that your English to Spanish translations are accurate and reflect the style of the original text is to enlist the services of a trusted professional to advise you. Like me, for instance.

I can help you:

• Translate your script, treatment, or production bible into Spanish or Englishso you can dub your film, participate in a development workshop, request a European grant for your project, or venture into international co-production.

• Translate your blog articles, press releases, and social network posts from English to Spanish and vice versa,adapting the text to your brand’s voice and style and even applying SEO if necessary.

• Translate your thesis or other academic work from English to Spanish or vice versato help you prepare a presentation or publish your research in a journal. I’ll also be on hand to support you throughout the peer review process.

• Translate all sorts of texts from Spanish to English too.

If you need to translate advertising or marketing copy from English to Spanish or vice versa, this is what we call “transcreation” or, somewhat redundantly, “creative translation.”

In the transcreation process, the original text serves as a guideline.Although it’s a key factor, it is by no means definitive. Creative translation seeks to reproduce the persuasiveness and emotional impact of the original text even if this means departing from its literal message. 

My process in this case is as follows:

• Analyzing the briefing creative brief to gain a deeper understanding of the client, the product or service they’re promoting, their target market, etc.

• Literal translation of the copy to serve as a rough draft and help identify shortcomings, opportunities, and potential mix-ups.

• Drafting a proposal for creative translation,offering one or more alternative solutions for those points where the translation must deviate from the original text and explaining the pros and cons of each suggestion.

I follow this same process in translating and adapting other creative texts such as song lyrics or poems. 

If you're in the midst of producing a documentary,film, or corporate video, and need a reliable professional to add Spanish or English subtitles with all the care and attention your project deserves, you can count on me. 

Whether you need to subtitle footage before taking it into the editing room or are looking for someone to add Spanish or English subtitles to your final cut, I have all the tools and experience necessary to handle the entire subtitling process from start to finish:

• Spotting or creating a template, indicating the in and out points for each subtitle.

• Transcribing the original dialogue, voice-over, or interventions in English or Spanish—with or without a script.

• Translating subtitles from English to Spanish or vice versa.

• Delivering the final subtitle file in the required format —SRT, TXT, STL, etc.— or creating a video file with burned-in subtitles if necessary.

I can also do a quality check if you have doubts about the existing subtitles for your film.

• Monolingual editing and proofreading of English or Spanish texts. If your project is more cut and dried and you’ve decided to go with machine translation but want to spare yourself the embarrassment of presenting a text that is full of calques, senseless hallucinations, and awkward sentence constructions, I can help you touch up the style of the final text.

• Writing press releases, voice-over scripts, or blog articles in Spanish or English. If you need additional support in your communications efforts, you can count on me to write clear, concise, and well researched original content in Spanish or English.

• Documentary research. I can also help you find archival footage and obtain usage rights for your documentary film or media project. I’ll help you research materials in Spanish, English, French, Italian, or Portuguese.

• Coordinating multilingual projects. I can help you arrange to have your project translated or subtitled into other languages.