Translating your subtitles

One video, many audiences: Inwista can carry multiple subtitle languages on the same project. You edit and style your subtitles once, add translations alongside the original, and export whichever language each audience needs — all without duplicating the project.

Two ways to translate

There are two translation moments in Inwista. At upload, you can pick an output language different from what's spoken — the transcript then arrives already translated (see the Translation guide under Getting started). This page covers the second, more powerful way: adding additional languages to a finished project inside the editor, so the original and its translations live side by side.

Adding a language

Open the transcript panel in the editor's left sidebar. Next to the language of your project you'll find the option to add another. Pick the target language, and the modal shows the estimated credit cost before anything runs — it scales with how much subtitle text the project contains.

Confirm, and the translation runs in the background with a progress indicator; when it completes, the new language appears next to the original, ready to switch to. If a translation fails, your credits are not charged. Each version of your project can hold one translation per language — languages you already have are hidden from the picker.

Switching between languages and editing

Click a language in the transcript panel to load it — the captions in the preview and timeline switch to that language. Edits you make while a translation is active belong to that translation: fix a clumsy phrase in the German subtitles and the Norwegian original stays untouched.

Styling works the other way around: position, size and appearance are owned by the original captions and flow through to every translation. Style your subtitles once — every language inherits the look, and stays consistent.

Translations follow your revisions

Translations are tied to the version of the project they were made from. Roll back to an earlier revision and you'll see exactly the translations that existed for that state — not translations of text that didn't exist yet. It keeps languages honest: a translation always corresponds to the original it was translated from. (More on versions in Revisions & rollback.)

Exporting in any language

When you export, the dialog shows a Subtitle language selector listing the original — marked (original) — and every completed translation. For a video export, that choice decides which language gets burned into the render; for transcript files, which language the SRT, VTT or DOCX contains.

Render once per language and you have localized versions of the same video, identical in every way except the subtitles — same cut, same styling, same timing.