Subtitles involve three separate jobs that often get lumped together: creating them, translating them, and delivering them in the format a platform accepts. Each is one step here.
Step 1: Generate timed subtitles from the video
The AI Video Subtitle Generator listens to your video and produces subtitles with timings attached, which you can download as an SRT file — or, if you’d rather not deal with subtitle files at all, as a copy of your video with the subtitles burned in.
Auto-generated subtitles get the timing and most words right; plan one review pass for names, technical terms, and any place where two people talk at once — the predictable weak spots of every automatic system. Review is fastest now, in the original language, before any translation multiplies the text.
Step 2: Translate, keeping the timing
Translating subtitles is not just translating text: every line has a start time, an end time, and a length that has to stay readable. The AI Subtitle Translator takes SRT and VTT files and translates them while preserving their timing, so the translated line appears exactly when the original did. One source file can become as many language versions as you need.
Step 3: Deliver the format the platform wants
Two file formats dominate: SRT (the older, universally accepted one) and VTT (the web-native one used by HTML5 players and many web platforms). They contain the same essential information, so conversion is lossless and instant — SRT to VTT and VTT to SRT both exist as one-click tools. Keep one master format for editing and convert copies on the way out.
Already have the audio transcribed?
If you’ve run the episode or video through AI Speech to Text, you already have SRT and VTT exports of the same content — the same file serves as a transcript page and as a subtitle track.
Why bother with subtitle files at all when platforms auto-caption?
Control and portability. A subtitle file you generated and reviewed is correct once, everywhere you publish — auto-captions are regenerated by each platform, mistakes included, and can’t be fixed centrally. Subtitles also make the video watchable with the sound off and readable by search engines where the platform indexes them.