VTT To SRT Converter
Convert WebVTT captions back to SubRip: strip cue settings and regions, renumber cues, optionally flatten styling tags, and fix timing drift.
About this tool
VTT To SRT Converter
Convert WebVTT captions back to SubRip: strip cue settings and regions, renumber cues, optionally flatten styling tags, and fix timing drift.
The VTT to SRT Converter rewrites a W3C WebVTT caption file as a SubRip (.srt) file that video editors, DVD authoring tools and desktop players accept. It removes the WEBVTT header and any NOTE, STYLE or REGION blocks, changes the millisecond separator from a full stop to a comma, decodes escaped entities such as & and <, unwraps WebVTT-only markup like <c> class spans and karaoke timestamp tags, and renumbers every cue from 1. It runs entirely in your browser.
How to use VTT To SRT Converter
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Open VTT To SRT Converter on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
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Paste or upload your source content.
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Choose the target format or conversion mode.
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Copy or download the converted result.
Why use VTT To SRT Converter
Handles the whole spec
NOTE, STYLE and REGION blocks, cue identifiers and cue settings are all recognised and removed cleanly.
Readable speaker names
Voice spans become plain-text speaker prefixes instead of vanishing with the tag.
Private by design
Conversion runs in JavaScript on your device; the caption file is never sent anywhere.
Common use cases
- Import captions downloaded from a streaming platform into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut, which read SubRip more reliably than WebVTT.
- Convert auto-generated WebVTT captions to SRT before uploading them to a platform whose caption uploader only accepts .srt.
- Flatten <v Speaker> voice spans into plain "Speaker:" prefixes so a transcript reads correctly outside a WebVTT renderer.
- Correct a fixed sync offset while converting, instead of re-timing every cue by hand.
Frequently asked questions
Can I convert VTT to SRT without losing anything?
Timings and text convert exactly; what cannot survive is WebVTT-only information. Cue settings (line, position, size, align), region definitions, CSS ::cue styling and class spans have no SubRip equivalent, though this converter can re-express basic alignment as a {\anN} override that VLC and MPC-HC understand.
Why does my SRT show characters like & instead of &?
WebVTT stores cue text as escaped markup, so an ampersand is written & and a less-than sign is written <. SubRip is plain text, so those references have to be decoded on conversion — this tool decodes &, <, >, , ‎ and ‏ automatically.
Does SRT support italics and bold?
Most SubRip renderers, including VLC, MPV and MPC-HC, honour <i>, <b> and <u> tags even though they are not part of any formal SubRip specification. Keep the styling option on for those players, and turn it off if your target software shows the tags as literal text.
What encoding should I save an SRT file in?
Save it as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark. SubRip has no way to declare its own encoding, so a player configured for a legacy code page such as Windows-1252 may render accented or non-Latin characters incorrectly; most modern players default to UTF-8.
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