What is an .srt file?

INTRODUCTION

Subtitles are becoming increasingly common, particularly as businesses expand their marketing efforts and aim to reach a broader, global market. Additionally, subtitles are often necessary to ensure your video and audio files are as inclusive as possible.

Fortunately, there's an easy solution to adding subtitles to video - an SRT file.

To ensure your videos are inclusive and easily digestible for any audience, it's critical you include an option to watch with subtitles. Here, we'll explain what an SRT file is, and how to create and edit one for your marketing videos moving forward.

SO WHAT IS AN .SRT FILE?

An SRT file (otherwise known as a SubRip Subtitle file) is a plain-text file that contains critical information regarding subtitles, including the start and end timecodes of your text to ensure your subtitles match your audio, and the sequential number of subtitles.

It's important to note, an SRT file is just a text file you would use alongside video or audio -- it does not also include the video or audio you're subtitling.

SRT files can be created from scratch or downloaded and edited. Before we get into the basics of editing SRT files, let's take a look at what an SRT file looks like and how it's formatted.