SBV to SRT — YouTube captions for any player
Convert YouTube’s .sbv caption file to .srt for players, TVs and video editors.
About this conversion
SBV is the caption format YouTube Studio downloads by default: two times separated by a comma, then the text. Almost nothing outside YouTube reads it. Converting is mostly a matter of rewriting the times; what goes wrong in quick converters is the [br] that YouTube writes for a line break, which ends up in the text, and files saved with Windows line endings. Both are handled, and the result opens in VLC, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve and on TVs.
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, 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 also get it as VTT?
- Yes — VTT is in the Save as menu, for web players.
- My captions are YouTube’s automatic ones.
- Those download as .sbv or .vtt; both open here. Auto-captions have no punctuation, so lines can be long — the checker marks them.