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Convert TXT to SRT

Turn TXT transcripts or plain text into SRT subtitles. Keep existing timestamps, or estimate timing and adjust it in your editor.

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How to convert TXT to SRT

Convert a TXT transcript or plain text into SRT subtitles for YouTube, Premiere Pro, or a video player. CutConvert reads timestamps and speaker labels from Rev, Otter, Descript, Word-style transcripts, and Avid Media Composer caption TXT. Text without timestamps gets estimated timing that you can adjust by reading speed or fit to a total running time. Review estimated cues against your video before publishing.

  1. Add your TXT files

    Drag your .txt transcripts or plain text onto the drop zone, or click to browse. Rev, Otter, Word-style, and Avid caption exports all work.

  2. Convert TXT to SRT

    If your text has no timestamps, choose a reading speed or enter the total running time. Press Convert to create SRT cues. Existing transcript timing and speaker labels are kept; estimated timing needs review in your editor.

  3. Download your result

    Download the converted file instantly, or a single ZIP archive when you convert a batch of files.

TXT transcript and SRT subtitles, explained

Transcription services deliver TXT; players and platforms want SRT. The difference is structure: SRT needs numbered cues with start and end times in milliseconds, while a transcript has loose timestamps and speaker turns. This converter does the restructuring, including the frame-based timecode in Avid caption exports, so nothing gets retyped or retimed by hand.

Turn TXT transcripts or plain text into SRT subtitles. Keep existing timestamps, or estimate timing and adjust it in your editor. It is free to start, encrypted in transit, and converts a whole batch into one ZIP — sign in when you need large, high-volume jobs.

TXT to SRT FAQ

Which TXT formats does this converter accept?

Timestamped transcript exports from Rev, Otter, and Descript, Word-style transcripts saved as text, Avid Media Composer caption TXT exports, and plain text without timestamps. Existing timestamps supply the timing; plain text uses estimated timing.

My TXT has no timestamps. Can it still be converted?

Yes. Add your TXT file and choose a reading speed, or use the "fit to" field to enter a total running time in mm:ss. This creates estimated subtitle timing, not audio-synchronized captions. Review and adjust the cues against your video in an editor. Export a transcript with timestamps when you need timing from the source.

Do speaker names survive the conversion?

Yes. Speaker turns in the transcript become labeled SRT cues, so a line exported as "Sarah: We're live" stays attributed in the subtitles.

How does the converter time each subtitle?

For timestamped transcripts, it reads the source timestamps or Avid caption timecode and splits long passages into readable cues between those anchors. For plain text, it estimates cue lengths from reading speed or fits them to the running time you enter. Both paths write standard SRT millisecond timing; estimated cues need manual review.

Can I convert SRT back to TXT or into an editor?

Yes. The SRT to Text converter at /srt/text strips timing for a clean transcript, SRT to Avid TXT at /srt/txt rewrites cues for Avid SubCap import, and SRT to Premiere JSON at /srt/json turns subtitles into a Premiere Pro transcript.

How many files can I convert at once, and what does it cost?

It is free to start. Guests convert 5 files a month at up to 100 KB each; a free account has no monthly cap on files within the free size limit and batches up to 100 files, and paid plans start at $9/month for 100 conversions with 50 MB files. Batches come back as a single ZIP.

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Convert a batch within your allowance and download a single ZIP, or one file if that is all you need.

Made for editors

Whole timelines from Premiere, Final Cut and Avid with transitions, markers, titles, keyframes, levels, nests and bins; captions that keep their italics, colour, placement and speakers across SRT, VTT, ASS, TTML, iTT, SCC and STL, any of them in, any of them out; transcripts into Premiere with the words the engine timed. Frame rates and timecode handled the way post expects.

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Files are converted in your browser. Queued files can be saved locally to restore your job after checkout. Conversion metadata helps us diagnose errors; file contents are not uploaded.

Questions, answered

Where are my files processed?

In your browser. The converter runs on your own machine and the file never leaves it; the site only records that a conversion happened. CutConvert never sees, stores, sells or shares your media.

Is it free? Do I need an account?

About an hour of footage per file is free, on every converter: 100 KB of subtitles or captions, 500 KB of Word transcript, 2 MB of transcript JSON, 1 MB of Resolve project, 5 MB of Final Cut XML, with Premiere projects and Avid AAF a little under the hour. Guests get five conversions a month, a free account has no monthly cap within those sizes, and above that project-to-project transfers are $5 per file. Every other conversion is $3, including project files to captions, reports or cut lists, and captions or transcripts into an editor. Pro is $9 a month ($39 a year) for every file type up to 50 MB; Studio is $19 a month ($79 a year) for files up to 500 MB. Paid-file access lasts 24 hours.

What do I get when I convert multiple files?

Drop several files and you get back one ZIP archive containing every converted file. Convert a single file and you get that one file back, no ZIP. Tick extra formats under the output chips and the same ZIP carries every one of them, and a file counts as one conversion whatever it is written to.

Which formats are supported?

Timelines: Premiere .prproj, DaVinci Resolve .drp (as exported, or gzip- or Zstandard-wrapped), Avid AAF and Final Cut FCPXML in; FCP7 XML, FCPXML, Resolve .drp, CMX 3600 EDL and shot-list CSV out. A Premiere or Final Cut edit travels with its transitions, markers, titles, opacity and scale keyframes, clip volume, speed changes, nested sequences, bins, audio channel routing and each file's own frame rate, wherever the output has a place for them; an Avid AAF brings its transitions, markers, clip levels with their keyframes, muted tracks, nested stacks and each clip's own rate. Captions and transcripts, read and written: SRT, WebVTT, SBV, ASS, TTML, DFXP, iTT, SCC, MCC (a second 608 channel comes out as its own file), EBU-STL, Avid caption TXT, CapCut drafts of any size, timed CSV, Word, plain text, Whisper, WhisperX, AssemblyAI, Deepgram, Rev.ai and CapCut JSON, TwitchDownloader chat logs as a chat replay, Premiere transcript JSON and .prtranscript, Rev, Otter and Word-style transcripts, with italics, colour, placement and speakers kept where the output can hold them and measured word timing into Premiere. EDLs become event CSV reports. The capability table lists what every pair keeps.

Can I pick a frame rate?

Yes. For EDL and Avid caption output you can choose 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, or 30 fps, or let CutConvert auto-detect it from your source.