Free, instant, and entirely in your browser — your subtitle file is never uploaded.
MicroDVD counts frames, not seconds — this has to match the video.
WebVTT is SRT rebuilt for the web: the same cue structure, a WEBVTT header line, a dot instead of a comma before the milliseconds, and optional positioning settings after the timestamp. It is the only subtitle format HTML5 video natively understands.
Plain text is the subtitle with the subtitle part removed: the spoken lines, in order, with no timing at all.
Getting the words out of a web caption file. This is how people turn a recorded talk, lecture or webinar into something readable — a page of prose they can search, quote, summarise or hand to a language model without timestamps confusing it. VTT files also tend to carry cue settings and the occasional inline tag, and those go too: what comes back is the spoken content and nothing else.
You want plain text because you are done with the video. Reading the transcript, counting words, feeding the script to a translator or a language model, quoting a line in a document — all of it is easier without timestamps in the way. This is the one conversion here you should expect to be one-way.
This one throws the timing away. Everything a subtitle knows about *when* a line appears lives in its timestamps, and plain text has none — so what comes out is the dialogue, in order, and nothing else. That is exactly right when you want to read the transcript, run a word count, or paste the script somewhere; it is the wrong move if you ever intend to put it back on a video, because there is no way to recover what was discarded.
No. The conversion runs in your browser using JavaScript — your VTT file is read from disk, converted in memory and handed back as a download. Nothing is transmitted, so there is nothing for us to store or delete. You can disconnect from the internet after this page loads and the conversion still works.
Getting the words out of a web caption file. This is how people turn a recorded talk, lecture or webinar into something readable — a page of prose they can search, quote, summarise or hand to a language model without timestamps confusing it. VTT files also tend to carry cue settings and the occasional inline tag, and those go too: what comes back is the spoken content and nothing else.
The page checks before it converts. Subtitle formats are identified by what is inside the file rather than by the extension — which matters, because .sub alone is used by three unrelated formats. If you hand this page something that is not VTT, it says so and points you at the all-format converter instead of producing a broken file.