As a fellow translator, I disagree on the difficulty or low pay of doing subtitles. I get paid the same rate for subtitles that I would on any other text, but I

As a fellow translator, I disagree on the difficulty or low pay of doing subtitles. I get paid the same rate for subtitles that I would on any other text, but I can also bill the client for the time spent watching the video first. Turnarounds are not so fast; I often work pretty leisurely. Granted, what I normally translate are films, not television, which might be more stressful. The people I really feel sorry for are the workers on either end of me: the transcriber, and then the person who takes my translated text and has to sync it up with the film. Both of those strikes me as more monotonous and tiresome than my own role.