Guide

How to translate a Chinese video to English

Updated 2026-11-11

Start with a Chinese video you have the right to use. VidDub returns the same picture with English subtitles in the frame, and a catalog voice if you ask for one.

What this pair is good at

A shop tour, a lesson, a family message, or a product demo filmed in Chinese. The people who need it next read English. You keep the room and the hands. English goes into the picture, synced to the speech.

Traditional Chinese is its own target when the job runs the other way or into that script. This guide is Chinese into English. One upload, one target. The live pair page on the English site walks the same direction in shorter form.

Export a chapter you can check

Use MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, or WebM, up to 2 GB, within 10 minutes. A full lecture can be split into chapters. Each chapter gets its own preview, so a term you use in minute three is easy to find.

Names of people, brands, and streets deserve a slow read in the English preview. Numbers too. The original Chinese audio can remain, with English subtitles, or you can add a catalog voice timed to the speech. Basic dubbing is free on the full video.

Sign in and choose English

On viddubapp.com, sign in with Google, Apple, or email. The apps on iOS and Android do the same kind of job. Pick English. Choose a single English line or bilingual subtitles if you want the Chinese and the English together in the picture.

The free preview after sign-in is where you approve the English. The full download uses minutes. Packs start at $3.90. Finished files stay for about 24 hours. Save the English video, and keep the Chinese master.

Terms worth a slow pause

Product model numbers, ingredient names, and people’s titles are the English words a viewer will repeat. Read them in the preview against the Chinese you remember saying. If a brand writes its English name a certain way, the subtitle should use that spelling. The preview is the place to notice.

Bilingual subtitles help a viewer who still wants the Chinese on screen. A single English line is calmer for a viewer who only reads English. Pick the one this audience needs. You can render the other later as its own upload.

Chapters keep the check honest. A ten-minute limit means a long course becomes a series of English files, each with its own preview. Number them in the file name. A student can then watch in order, and you can see which chapter you already downloaded.

Save the English next to the Chinese master, with English in the file name. Finished files on VidDub stay for about 24 hours. The download is the copy you will send. If a teammate needs only a sentence, the subtitle file has the English line you just approved in the preview.

Play the preview once muted and once with sound if you added the catalog voice. The English line and the voice should tell the same sentence. Basic dubbing is free on the full video. The minutes are for the download of that video.

Read the English like a subtitle editor

Personal names and how you want them spelled.
Brand names that should stay as the brand writes them.
Prices, dates, and addresses.
A joke that needs a plainer English line.
The first sentence, because it sets the video.
The last sentence, because it asks the viewer to act.
Whether bilingual would serve this audience better.
That you downloaded a copy the same day.

Hand over the English file

Send the finished video to the teammate, the classroom, or the storefront that reads English. The subtitles are in the picture. A subtitle file is included if they need the text.

A worked example: a five-minute warehouse walkthrough in Chinese. You upload it, choose English, and read the preview next to the aisle signs. The numbers match. You download the full video and file it with the English spec sheet. The Chinese original stays the source for the next language. Traditional Chinese remains its own target when a later cut needs that script.

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Questions

Can the Chinese stay on screen too?

Yes. Choose bilingual subtitles.

Is there an English voice?

A catalog voice, timed to the speech. Basic dubbing is free on the full video.

What if the video is longer than 10 minutes?

Export a chapter and translate that chapter.

Is the preview free?

Yes, after sign-in.

Where is the pair page?

Chinese to English is linked below. Plans are on the pricing page.