Courses for beginners

No experience in audiovisual translation?
No worries! We have the right courses
to get you started.

  • Fundamentals of Subtitling

  • Timing Subtitles 101

  • Fundamentals of Dubbing

  • Introduction to Audio Description

  • Media Localization Primer

More advanced courses

If you already have some experience in media localisation, take your skills to the next level with our more advanced professional development courses

  • Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing
    & Closed captioning

  • Template Creation

  • Master Subtitling Guidelines

  • Forced Narratives

  • How to create a macro

  • Audio Description Templates

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    Our self-paced online courses allow your team to learn at their convenience, giving them control over when and how much they study. With AVT Masterclass, they can enhance their skills without disrupting project timelines, staying prepared for the evolving demands of media localisation.

  • Need to build your team’s foundational knowledge for new media localisation projects?

    AVT Masterclass provides globally accessible training tailored to audiovisual translation and media localisation. Our courses deliver expert insights and hands-on practice, ensuring your staff can tackle the latest industry demands confidently and efficiently.

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    Gain access to our full suite of training materials created by experienced audiovisual translation trainers.

  • Video tutorials

    Learn from our engaging video tutorials and step-by-step screencasting lessons.

  • Hands-on approach

    Practise with our interactive quizzes and hands-on exercises

  • Downloadable resources

    Download our checklists and style guides for future use in your projects.

  • Access from any device

    Our courses are fully mobile responsive, so you can take your course on the go from any phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.

  • Free trial of professional software

    In selected courses you get access to professional software: OOONA and/or EZTitles.

Media Localisation Instructors

Łukasz Dutka is an audiovisual translator, subtitling trainer and media accessibility expert, and one of the founders of AVT Masterclass. He has spent years as a freelance subtitler, template author and QC'er on high-profile titles for leading localisation companies, and he pioneered live subtitling through respeaking in Poland, from the first accessible public events in 2013 to the first television broadcast with respoken subtitles in 2017. With years of experience running corporate training and teaching university courses on audiovisual translation, subtitling, SDH and interpreting, he has helped shape how live subtitling is done in Poland. He is a member of the Polish Association of Audiovisual Translators, the University of Warsaw's Audiovisual Translation Lab (AVT Lab) and the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST). Born by the mountains and now living by the ocean, he shares a multilingual family, a serious coffee habit and an unreasonable amount of chocolate.

Łukasz Dutka

AVT Masterclass Co-founder

Media Localisation Instructors

Agnieszka Walczak, PhD, is a media accessibility expert, audiovisual translator, translator trainer, and one of the founders of AVT Masterclass. She wrote the first thesis in Poland on text-to-speech audio description and later earned her doctorate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where her research focused on how audiences receive audio description. For over ten years she has lectured at universities in Poland and Spain and is the author of more than fifteen publications on audiovisual translation. Alongside her academic work, she has worked for over a decade as a freelance subtitler, voice-over translator, and audio describer. She has also held a senior manager role in global content localization at a leading international media company. She is a member of the University of Warsaw's Audiovisual Translation Lab (AVT Lab) and a former member of the TransMedia Catalonia Research Group. She is affiliated with the Polish Audiovisual Translators Association (STAW). She also serves as an Event Manager for Women in Localization's Polish Chapter.

Agnieszka Walczak

AVT Masterclass Co-founder

Media Localisation Instructors

Prof. Agnieszka Szarkowska is a researcher and educator in audiovisual translation and media accessibility. With over twenty years' experience teaching audiovisual translation, she has trained hundreds of students internationally and is helping to shape the next generation of subtitlers and researchers. As a trainer, she connects everyday practice back to the research it's built on. She is also principal investigator of several research projects, a member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), and an honorary member of the Polish Audiovisual Translators Association (STAW).

Agnieszka Szarkowska

AVT Masterclass Co-founder

Audio Description Instructors

Anna Jankowska is a researcher in audiovisual translation and media accessibility. She now works at the University of Antwerp, where she co-manages the OPEN Expertise Centre for Accessible Media and Culture. Before that, she was a visiting scholar with the TransMedia Calatonia research group at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and worked at the Chair for Translation at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Defended at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), Anna's doctoral dissertation focused on using translation to produce audio description scripts in multiple languages. Within her research work, she collaborated in developing the AudioMovie app, which provides audio description and audio subtitles in cinemas via mobile devices. She is a member of the European Society for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Audiovisual Translation. Anna combines her academic experience with practice in the audiovisual translation and media accessibility industry. She worked as a freelance audiovisual translator and audio described for over 10 years and co-founded and co-managed the Seventh Sense Foundation - an NGO that provides accessibility services, training, and consultancy. In her work, she collaborated with local clients and international localization services providers and, most importantly, with users of various accessibility services. She has 15 years of experience in training in audiovisual translation and media accessibility, both at university-level courses and running training programs for companies and institutions.

Anna Jankowska

Audio Description Instructors

Nina Reviers is a tenure-track professor in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility at the University of Antwerp, where she co-manages the OPEN Expertise Centre for Accessible Media and Culture. She defended her Phd at the University of Antwerp in 2018. It focused on the linguistic profiling of the language of audio description in Dutch, and it was awarded the EST Young Scholar Prize in 2019. Her research addresses linguistic and multimodal aspects of audio description, (computer-aided translation) of audio description, integrated access for the (scenic) arts and technology for access. She is a member of the European Society for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Audiovisual Translation. Nina combines her academic experience with practice in media accessibility. She fosters a close collaboration with stakeholders as a key factor in her research and teaching activities. She has 10 years of experience as a trainer in subtitling and audio description, for university courses as well as courses for professional development for freelancers, companies and institutions.

Nina Reviers

Audio Description Instructors

Gert Vercauteren is a tenure track professor at the University of Antwerp, where he co-manages the OPEN Expertise Centre for Accessible Media and Culture. Defended at the University of Antwerp (2016) his PhD focuses on audio description and, more specifically, on selecting relevant information to be described. His current research centres on narratology in audio description with a particular focus on sound and cognitive load in/and audio description. He has over 20 years of experience as a trainer, and during this time, he taught media accessibility, translation technology, and audiovisual translation and communication. He also works as an audio describer, maintaining a close link with the audiovisual translation industry.

Gert Vercauteren

Project Management Instructors

Dr Lindsay Bywood is a Translation Studies academic, trainer and practitioner. She holds a PhD in subtitling from University College London, an MA in German and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Salford. Before becoming an academic she worked for many years in the audiovisual translation industry, including spells at several of the major international AVT companies. She has worked as a project manager in subtitling and dubbing, and trained many students in all aspects of AVT. She is Director of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, and a member of the advisory committee for the Languages & The Media conference series. Her research has spanned the diachronic variation of subtitles in the German to English language pair, machine translation, subtitling and post-editing, inclusive design and audio description.

Lindsay Bywood

Project Management Instructors

Agnieszka Walczak, PhD, is a media accessibility expert, audiovisual translator, translator trainer, and one of the founders of AVT Masterclass. She wrote the first thesis in Poland on text-to-speech audio description and later earned her doctorate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where her research focused on how audiences receive audio description. For over ten years she has lectured at universities in Poland and Spain and is the author of more than fifteen publications on audiovisual translation. Alongside her academic work, she has worked for over a decade as a freelance subtitler, voice-over translator, and audio describer. She has also held a senior manager role in global content localization at a leading international media company. She is a member of the University of Warsaw's Audiovisual Translation Lab (AVT Lab) and a former member of the TransMedia Catalonia Research Group. She is affiliated with the Polish Audiovisual Translators Association (STAW). She also serves as an Event Manager for Women in Localization's Polish Chapter.

Agnieszka Walczak

AVT Masterclass Co-founder

Certificate of Completion

Continuous Professional Development

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