ASS to SRT — anime and fansub subtitles for any player
Convert .ass subtitles to .srt for TVs and players that do not read ASS: dialogue, italics and top-of-screen lines kept, karaoke and drawings left out.
About this conversion
ASS is the format of anime fansubs and karaoke: styled text, signs placed anywhere on the screen, effects drawn several times over for an outline or a glow. SRT knows none of that, so the conversion is about deciding what to keep. Dialogue is kept with its italics; a sign placed at the top stays at the top; the layers of one karaoke line drawn three times are kept once; drawings with no text are dropped and the page says how many. Vertical Japanese text becomes ordinary lines.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
Fix it before you save it
The file stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same subtitles can leave here as VTT, SBV, SUB (MicroDVD), TTML / DFXP, SAMI (.smi), LRC, TXT, Word, Excel or PDF. Before that you can move every line earlier or later, stretch the timing to a different release of the film, remove [DOOR SLAMS] and speaker names, put a second language under the first, and see which lines break the rules studios follow — too long, too fast, overlapping.
Questions
- Can I keep the styles?
- Not in SRT — it has no styles. If your player reads ASS, keep the ASS; you can still fix the timing here and save back as ASS with its styles intact.
- Signs and dialogue overlap in the SRT.
- In ASS they were in different places on screen. The checker only counts an overlap when two lines share a place, so this is expected after converting.