LRC to SRT — song lyrics as subtitles for a video
Turn .lrc synced lyrics into .srt subtitles for a music video, a lyric video or karaoke, with sensible end times for every line.
About this conversion
An .lrc file gives each lyric line a start time and nothing else — the line is meant to stay until the next one. Subtitles need an end too, and a line held through a two-minute guitar solo is not what anyone wants. Here each line ends when the next begins, but never shows for more than seven seconds; an empty timed line in the .lrc, which marks a pause, ends the line before it. Artist and title tags at the top of the file are kept for saving back to LRC.
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, ASS, SBV, SUB (MicroDVD), TTML / DFXP, SAMI (.smi), 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
- The words appear a little early in my video.
- Shift the whole file later with “Shift timing” — lyric files are often timed for a slightly different version of the song.
- Can I go the other way?
- Yes — open an .srt and save it as LRC.