5 Mins to Translate a Video to Any Language

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Why You Need to Translate a Video

Videos give people a glimpse of other people’s lives and shorten the physical distance. However, language barriers always exist, even for people who are proficient in several languages. That significantly decreases the fun! Besides entertainment, there are more reasons and benefits to translate a video.

1 > Wider Audiences

With over 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, only 15% of the world’s total population is proficient in English. Translating your video into another language means your video is reaching wider audience.

Spanish, French, Japanese, German, and Portuguese are among the most in-demand language in video translation.

2 > Improved SEO

The search engine doesn’t understand your video, but it does understand your video script. The translated script can be a key for search engines to index text data and give rankings in new areas. Add bilingual subtitles to your video now!

3 > Better Localization

Let’s get straight, 72.1% of people tend to buy products or services, and nearly 56.2% of the people would trust a product if the information is in their language. The statistics prove that it is worth the effort to translate your business video.

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How to Translate a Video (Both Script and Voice)

Traditionally, it takes lots of time and effort to translate a video. This process involves manually translating the script, hiring a voice actor to do the voice-over, and even re-editing.

Yet, AI makes translating a video easy and simple. With the right AI tool, you can translate a video in 5 minutes. Here we will show you how to translate a video with an excellent AI tool, FlexClip. It is integrated with the AI voice-to-text and text-to-speech tools, helping you translate the script and create realistic narration in the language you like. Click on the Get Started button and follow the steps below.

Create a Video View Templates

Step 1

Get the Script and Translate

Once you drag and drop the video to the timeline, go to Subtitles > Auto AI Subtitle, in seconds, FlexClip will automatically transcribe the video. Now, copy all those texts and translate them into any language. You can use any translation tools you like, Google Translate, ChatGPT, or your colleague.

Translate a Video - Auto Subtitle

Step 2

Remove the Audio

Before adding new narration, you need to remove the old ones. It is easy to remove the audio. Right-click on the video, choose Detach Audio. Then choose the audio, hit the Delete button.

Translate a Video - Mute Video

Step 3

Add Narration & New Subtitle

Go to Media > Text to Speech tool. Copy and paste the text to FlexClip. Choose the language, and tone you like. Wait a few seconds, you can soon have a new narration for your video. Do remember to go back to the Subtitle section and add new subtitles.

Translate a Video - Add Narration

Step 4

Customize

Now, you need to customize the video. Even though the translated script and narration are perfect, there are still lots of editing to do, for example, synchronizing audio with the video, adding background music.

Step 5

Download & Share

That’s it, you now have the translated video. Download the video and share it with others. You can even upload the video to social platforms like YouTube, TikTok directly.

Alternative Tools to Translate a Video

Besides FlexClip, there are other alternative tools you can use to translate a video. They have their own pros and cons, but still, they are worth a try.

1 > Veed

Veed can be used to automatically translate your videos into any language online. Upload a video, click on Subtitles, and then click on the Translate, select your desired language, now your video is translated. If you are happy, you can even download the SRT file or burn the subtitles to the video.

It is not only easy to use, but also effective and accurate. Veed claims to have 95% accuracy in translations. Because of that, you need a subscription at $24/month to translate and download the transcripts.

2 > Flixier

With Flixier’s neural text-to-speech implementation, you can paste the translated texts to it and let AI read them out loud with a human-like tone. There are a great variety of languages you can choose from. After you select a language, you will be able to pick between multiple AI voices. For some languages, you can select from different dialects and accents.

Before choosing the language and tone, you can Preview the sample. You can always find the one you want. However, this feature is only available for Pro and business plan subscribers, which starts at $14 per month.

3 > Video Translator

Video Translator, as its name suggests, translates your video and transcribes with the target language in seconds. You don’t need to extract the subtitles first and then translate manually. Select the target language, it automatically detects the subtitles and translates it in seconds.

The best part is, you don’t have to remove the original subtitle manually. It deletes the original subtitles and adds the new one in seconds. Video Translator is also quite cheap to use. It translates your video at 30 cents per minute. 50% off discount for subscribers.

Elena /

Member of PearlMountain Limited. Has a mania for video editing. Love to share photo/video shooting tips and ideas.