About SBV to SRT
SBV to SRT is for captions downloaded from YouTube Studio in the .sbv format, which few other programs understand. If you're moving videos to another platform, editing them in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, or watching them offline in VLC, SRT is the format they expect. Upload one .sbv or the captions of a whole series at once, and each becomes an SRT, with all of them also in one ZIP. For an HTML5 player on your own site, turn the SRT into WebVTT with SRT to VTT.
Each SBV block, a start and end time separated by a comma followed by the caption text, becomes a numbered SRT cue with the same timing, down to the millisecond. The encoding is detected automatically, and you can save the result as UTF-8, UTF-8 with BOM or UTF-16 under More options. Captions that mark sounds such as [Music] or [Applause] can be cleaned with Remove sound descriptions and speaker labels ([Music], (laughs), ♪, JOHN:), and More options can also keep one language of a bilingual file or fix lines that overlap.
How to use SBV to SRT
- 1Upload the SBV files
Choose or drop the .sbv files you downloaded from YouTube Studio. Up to 20 go in one task, 50 with VIP.
- 2Click SBV to SRT
Each caption block is turned into a numbered SRT cue on our server, in every file.
- 3Download the SRT
Upload the files to another platform or load them in your player, one by one or from the ZIP.
Why use Cubfile for this
- Same timing
Start and end times are copied to the millisecond, and the encoding is detected, so Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic or accented captions open correctly.
- Standard SRT output
Numbered cues with comma-separated milliseconds, saved as UTF-8, UTF-8 with BOM or UTF-16, the way players expect.
- A channel's captions in one go
Convert the captions of a whole series in one task and download each SRT or the whole set as a ZIP.
- Clean-up on request
Remove sound tags and speaker labels, keep one language of a bilingual caption, or fix lines that overlap or flash by.