How-to Guides

In-depth guides for every tool — what problem it solves, how it works, and exactly how to use it.

Syncing

Subtitle Sync Shifter

How to shift all subtitle timestamps forward or backward by a fixed amount using the Sync Shifter tool.

Partial Sync Shifter

How to fix subtitles that drift or have multiple sync break points by applying different offsets to different sections.

Fixing

How to remove SDH hearing-impaired tags, HTML formatting, watermarks, and empty entries from SRT subtitle files.

Merge Subtitles

How to combine two SRT subtitle files by interleaving timestamps, stacking dual-language text, or appending sequentially.

Styling

Change Subtitle Color

How to apply a custom color to subtitle text in SRT, ASS, and SSA files using the color picker or presets.

Change Subtitle Position

How to move subtitles to any of nine screen positions — top, center, or bottom — in SRT and ASS/SSA files.

Converters

How to convert ASS, SSA, WebVTT, SMI, MicroDVD, and MPL2 subtitle files to the universal SRT format.

Convert to WebVTT

How to convert SRT, ASS, and SSA subtitle files to WebVTT format for use with HTML5 video and streaming platforms.

Convert to Plain Text

How to strip timestamps and indices from subtitle files and export the dialog as a plain .txt file.

How to turn an SRT subtitle file into a formatted, printable PDF document with configurable font size and optional timestamps.

Convert to UTF-8

How to fix garbled or corrupted subtitle text caused by encoding mismatches by re-encoding files to UTF-8.

Chinese Pinyin Subtitles

How to add pinyin romanization above Chinese subtitle text in SRT files for language learners studying Mandarin.