Articles

We explain what matters before you order: how clipping works, what happens to Kazakh letters and how to check a finished clip.

• Kazakh letters in subtitles: why ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ, і disappear — and how to check your own clip Nine letters that turn finished clips into work you have to redo. Checking takes a minute and works on any service, ours included.
• How to cut a Kazakh-language podcast into clips: from the recording to finished shorts What the recording needs to be, how many clips it will yield, what it costs in tenge, and what to watch out for in Kazakh subtitles specifically.
• What it costs to cut video into shorts in Kazakhstan: the sum in tenge The price per minute of recording, the price per finished clip, and three ways to get the same thing cheaper or dearer. Every number is ours, with a date on it.
• Mixed recordings: Kazakh and Russian in one interview What speech recognition does when one sentence holds two languages, which language the subtitles come out in, and what to pick in the "spoken language" field.
• Documents for a Kazakhstan business: invoice, act, tax invoice What a company or sole trader gets after paying for clipping: which document arrives at once, which on request, and when the tax invoice is issued.
• A vertical clip from a horizontal interview: what happens to the frame What is lost when a frame becomes vertical, where text must not go, and why the headline sometimes covers a face.
• Split screen: two speakers in one vertical frame When a conversation between two people will not fit into a vertical frame, the frame is divided into rows. What happens to two-camera footage, and why the seam has to be found rather than calculated.
• The honest price of clipping: what to count before comparing A price list and an actual charge are different numbers. How to work out what clipping really costs, and why "10 minutes free" is not always ten.