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Convert YouTube Studio subtitles to SRT

Download captions from your own YouTube Studio video as SBV, then turn them into SRT for CapCut, Premiere, or another editor. Local conversion, no account.

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You downloaded captions from YouTube Studio and the file is .sbv. CapCut, Premiere, or another editor wants SubRip (.srt). This is that path: a Studio download you are allowed to use, converted in the browser, then opened in an editor.

This covers your own channel’s Studio download, or a file a client gave you with rights to edit. It does not cover ripping, cracking, or saving caption tracks you are not allowed to use.

1. Download the caption file from YouTube Studio

  1. Open YouTube Studio for a video you control.
  2. Use Studio’s subtitle download for that video.
  3. Save the file Studio gives you. It is usually .sbv. If Studio already gave you .srt, open that file in the editor and skip conversion.

Pick the language track you actually need. Automatic captions are a draft. Conversion keeps the wording. It does not proofread it.

2. Convert SBV to SRT

Open SBV to SRT

  1. Drop one or more .sbv files.
  2. Convert to SRT.
  3. Preview if you want, then download. A batch of successes comes back as one zip. Failures are listed separately.

Files stay in the browser. No account. Batch is free within the limits shown on that page.

3. Edit, then send the file onward

Open the SRT in CapCut, Premiere, or another editor and fix wording and timing there. Keep this SRT as the plain-text master so later copies do not drift.

When the edit is done:

  • The next person wants SubRip. Send the SRT.
  • You are putting it back on your YouTube video. Studio’s upload dialog often asks for SBV. Use SRT to SBV, and read the dialog for the format it accepts today.
  • A web player or course site asks for WebVTT. That is a later step. Use SRT to VTT for HTML5 once this SRT is the version you want to publish.

If the file you have is styled ASS rather than a Studio download, plain SRT drops styles on purpose. Read when ASS styles are dropped before you convert.

Common mistakes and limits

Treating automatic captions as finished copy. Conversion preserves timing and text. It does not fix recognition errors.

Dropping the SBV file straight into an editor that only imports SRT. Convert first.

Encoding. If CJK or accented text looks wrong, re-save the source as UTF-8, then convert again.

Unsupported formats. Image subtitles (PGS, SUB/IDX) and broadcast formats (TTML, SCC, STL) are out of scope. Only SRT, VTT, ASS/SSA, and SBV.

Batch caps. Per-file and per-batch limits are on the tool page.

Rights. Upload only to a video you are allowed to change. Do not use this to redistribute someone else’s caption track.