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ASS

Advanced SubStation Alpha

ASS carries full typesetting: fonts, colours, outlines, positioning, rotation and karaoke timing. Fansubbing built it and anime releases still ship it; players outside the desktop world usually ignore everything but the text.

Extension: .ass
MIME type: text/x-ssa
Also called: Advanced SubStation

01 Convert ASS to something else

ASS to SRT For players that ignore Advanced SubStation anyway.
ASS to VTT Typesetting out, browser-ready captions in.
ASS to TXT Pulls the script out of a typeset subtitle file.

02 Convert something else to ASS

SRT to ASS Produces a valid script with a Default style you can edit.

03 Related formats

Opening a .ass file

If you landed here because something handed you a .ass file and nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.