Convert .ASS to .SRT — bulk conversion with batch ZIP export

SubStation Alpha is the format invented for the fansub scene and later adopted by most players (VLC, MPC-HC, mpv) and anime streaming pipelines. An .ASS file is an INI-style script with three sections: [Script Info], [V4+ Styles] and [Events], where every dialogue line looks like this:

Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0,0,0,,{\an8}Hello there

That {\an8} block is an override tag: it tells the renderer to move the caption to the top of the frame and to use the named style. It is meaningless in SubRip, and it is exactly why a naive copy-paste of an .ASS into an .SRT produces captions full of braces.

Comment lines (Comment:) are skipped entirely, while every Dialogue: line is preserved in order. If you would rather keep the original markup — for example when your own renderer needs it — switch off strip formatting tags and the override blocks stay in place.

1. 01

   Select the whole folder

   Drop 60 episode files at once. SubRescue parses each one independently, so one broken script cannot corrupt the rest of the batch.

2. 02

   Apply one shift to all of them

   If the batch is offset from the master by the same amount, a custom timecode shift moves every file by the same number of milliseconds in a single action.

3. 03

   Download one ZIP

   Every converted file lands in a single archive named after the source, ready to hand to your distributor or ingest system.

ASS and SSA store timecodes as H:MM:SS.cc where cc are centiseconds, and the older SSA dialect writes them as H:MM:SS:CC with a colon instead of a dot. Both are read correctly here, including the legacy Marked=0 field that older SSA files prefix to every dialogue line.

The Format: line inside [Events] is honoured when present, so files with extra fields or a different field order still parse correctly instead of silently shifting every timestamp.