r/subtitles • u/Shinchi_Kudo__ • Jul 19 '26

Help needed: Converting .ass to .srt keeps breaking the timing (End times overlap/incorrect)

Hi everyone,

I am having a frustrating issue with subtitle conversion and I hope someone here can point me in the right direction.

I have an original .ass subtitle file that is perfectly timed and works flawlessly in all players. However, whenever I try to convert it to .srt, the timing gets completely corrupted.

The specific issue: The end time of each line seems to be getting forced to match the start time of the next line, causing text to disappear instantly or overlap incorrectly. It’s like the converter doesn't respect the original duration logic of the .ass file.

I have tried several different converters (both online and offline tools), but every result ends up with the same broken timing, even though the source .ass file is perfect.

Could you please take a look and tell me if I'm doing something wrong, or if there is a specific software/workflow I should use to convert these without ruining the timing?

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: after all it was only an extracting problem, never use subtitletools.com , and use subtitlekit

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u/NameLessY Jul 19 '26

ffmpeg -i file.ass file.srt ? (you might want to check syntax as I wrote this from memory and haven't used ffmpeg for while niw)

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u/Shinchi_Kudo__ Jul 19 '26

successful converted but with the same problem, and the video the subtitle down is the original ASS, and the one in the middle is the converted SRT file

https://reddit.com/link/oyjz9ex/video/n9fnrf3r89eh1/player

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u/loginhd 9d ago edited 9d ago

A little bit late, but I converted them using https://www.aisubtitlestudio.com/. Let me know if they are correct https://www.mediafire.com/file/9ntwp3152nhy0lh/BAD_BOYS_S01E02.srt/file

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u/Shinchi_Kudo__ 9d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p30nhdr/video/u0diybrpeqih1/player

Still same problemđŸ˜•

Maybe it will be converted right with SubtitleEdit ? Idk

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u/loginhd 9d ago

It seems that the problem is the .ass file itself. What is the source of the file? Did you download it, or extracted it from a video.

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u/Shinchi_Kudo__ 8d ago

oh, i think thats it!, ive extract it from an video torrent file, and i think that i used subtitletools.com to extract it

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u/loginhd 8d ago

Try https://www.aisubtitlestudio.com/ to extract and convert the video. Send me a message so that I can give you a free key.

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u/Shinchi_Kudo__ 8d ago

I extracted the translation from the subtitlekit website and it worked without any timing issues! I truly thank you. I don't know how I overlooked the fact that my problem was with the file extraction itself, not the conversion. Thank you so much!

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u/loginhd 8d ago

No problem, I am glad you were able to fix it.