25 Jul, 2007
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Convert subtitles from ssa to srt with Subtitle Workshop

I use the excel­lent Sub­merge to flat­ten sub­ti­tles into my AVI files and other movies. But some­times, sub­ti­tles are avail­able from sources such as Sub­Scene or All­Subs as not the usual *.srt files (Sub­Rip for­mat) but as *.ssa or *.sub.

While search­ing for a con­verter between the cap­tioned for­mats, Google did not turn up too much. After some search­ing I found a nifty lit­tle util­ity that allows you to con­vert between many for­mats of sub­ti­tles. It's Win­dows only, so if you are not on Win­dows you may have to use this within a vir­tual machine:

Down­load Sub­ti­tle Workshop

Usage is as sim­ple as load­ing a sub­ti­tle file from the File menu, and then Save As and Bob's your uncle.

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  1. Roger101 says: Dec 16, 20092:48 pm

    There are lots of sub­ti­tle DB's in the net and the one I'm telling doesn't have the best search engine in the world but it does have most sub­ti­tles I could find on a sub­ti­tles site. Just enter your movie name and .…. Abraca dabraaaaa :)

  2. DC says: May 07, 201011:56 pm

    Thanks for this! I've been look­ing for one too, and this works per­fect :D

  3. Tole says: Sep 19, 201010:48 am

    There's a free online cap­tion for­mat con­verter tool that con­verts between all major cap­tion for­mats, includ­ing SCC, DFXP, Flash Cap­tion­ate, SRT, STL, Quick­time, and SMI: http://www.3playmedia.com/resources/caption-format-converter/

  4. KotuwA says: Sep 21, 20107:46 pm

    why you need to con­vert.
    most play­ers (sub­ti­tle han­dlers) sup­port .sub, .ssa, etc. So use a proper player!

    If you really want to con­vert!
    You can con­vert sub for­mats with Sub­Re­Sync tool that comes with Vob­Sub.
    But if you installed Vob­Sub, you will have no prob­lems with any sub­ti­tle for­mat :)
    http://www.free-codecs.com/download/vobsub.htm

    or try this tool. i haven't used it.
    http://www.divx-digest.com/software/ssa2srt.html
    http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/SSA-to-SRT-Converter-Download-111953.html

  5. KotuwA says: Sep 21, 20108:33 pm

    plus

    If you use IE8, nor­mal Sub­Re­Sync might not open.
    Have to install from this fixed setup

    http://css.setti.info/~perplexer/vobsub/vobsub223fix.zip

    That sec­ond small 6kb con­ver­tor works. but if there are more advanced for­mat­ting in ssa, the srt will be messy

  6. KotuwA says: Sep 21, 20108:34 pm

    plus

    If you use IE8, nor­mal Sub­Re­Sync might not open.
    Have to install from this fixed setup

    http://css.setti.info/~perplexer/vobsub/vobsub223fix.zip

    That sec­ond small 6kb con­ver­tor works. but if there are more advanced for­mat­ting in ssa, the srt will be messy

  7. Derek says: Feb 18, 20119:27 pm

    Due, this doesn't really con­vert, does it? Just chang­ing the file's exten­sion to srt does the same thing.

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