SSA to SRT — old SubStation Alpha subtitles as SRT
Convert .ssa (SubStation Alpha) subtitles to .srt: dialogue, italics and top-of-screen lines kept.
About this conversion
SSA is the older version of ASS, from the days of DivX releases, and many players and TVs no longer read it. Its events are read the same way as ASS: the dialogue with its italics, signs at the top of the screen kept at the top, styling codes taken out of the text. Saved as SRT it plays anywhere; saved as ASS it becomes the newer format the editors expect.
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), 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
- Is SSA the same as ASS?
- Close: ASS is version 4+ of the same format, with more styling. Both open here.