Four videos in a library of twelve are worth translating.
A localisation quote is easy to get and hard to judge. It prices the minutes you have, not the minutes you get, and it says nothing about a cut with captions burned into the picture. This desk prices each job from the stages underneath it, compares the spend against what the library already earns, and names where the job breaks before anyone books a studio.
SimulationThe videos, the view counts and the rate card are written for this demonstration, and the costing is real code running in your browser. Nothing is connected to a video platform, a studio or a translation service. The production build reads the library and the view counts from your own sources and returns a purchase order per language.
Languages
2 selectedThe plan so far
5 of 12 videosThe library, priced
Each row is one video across every selected language. The bar compares what the language cuts are expected to add against the views the spend has to earn back.
Getting started in eleven minutes
Worth doingWhere this job breaks
- medium
Nobody is watching the full cut
Quality check is billed as a percentage of finished minutes in most quotes, which is generous. A length error, a wrong name or an untranslated screen is only caught by a person watching the whole thing once in the target language.
affects: Quality check the cut
The quote, stage by stage
| Stage | Minutes | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish 13 min, x1.18 | ||
| Transcribe and clean the script | 13 | $39 |
| Translate and adapt | 13 | $117 |
| Record the voice | 13 | $286 |
| Caption and subtitle | 13 | $52 |
| Mix and conform | 13 | $78 |
| Quality check the cut | 13 | $91 |
| Language total | 13 | $662 |
| German 13.4 min, x1.22 | ||
| Transcribe and clean the script | 13.4 | $40 |
| Translate and adapt | 13.4 | $148 |
| Record the voice | 13.4 | $456 |
| Caption and subtitle | 13.4 | $54 |
| Mix and conform | 13.4 | $81 |
| Quality check the cut | 13.4 | $94 |
| Language total | 13.4 | $872 |
Does it pay for itself
- Spend
- $1,534
- Views to break even
- 1,541 per language
- Views expected
- 7,037 in total
- Pipeline it sits inside
- $96,000 per quarter
How the costing works
What it counts
- Finished minutes, so a language that runs longer is charged for running longer.
- Every stage a supplier bills: transcript, adaptation, voice, captions, mix, check.
- A market that expects a human voice, repriced rather than assumed away.
- Break even views derived from what this library already earns per view.
What it does not claim
- It does not predict how a video will perform in a market it has never run in.
- It does not quote a real supplier. The rate card is a written example.
- It does not judge translation quality, which needs a person who reads the language.
- It does not decide for you. It prices the decision and names the risks.