Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SSA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SSA to another file type
To convert SSA subtitles to another format, you need Aegisub or other Text software.
Convert a file to SSA
To convert other file formats to the "Subtitle File" file type, you need software like Aegisub or a similar tool.
About SSA files
The .SSA (SubStation Alpha) file is an advanced, text-based subtitle format. Originally designed by Kotus for the SubStation Alpha software, it allows users to add complex visual effects to video subtitles, such as custom fonts, absolute screen positioning, overlapping text, and karaoke timing. Today, users typically create and edit these files using modern subtitle tools like Aegisub or standard text editors. However, .SSA files have significant disadvantages for mainstream use. They are poorly supported by standard smart TVs, set-top boxes, and web video players, which usually lack the complex rendering engine required to draw the custom fonts and positions. Furthermore, legacy files often suffer from encoding issues, utilizing UTF-16 LE instead of modern UTF-8, which causes broken text characters on newer devices. To ensure broad playback compatibility on the web or hardware media players, convert .SSA to SRT (SubRip) or VTT (WebVTT). Keep in mind that converting to SRT strips away advanced positioning, colors, and karaoke effects, preserving only the raw text and timestamps. For simple documentation or archiving, convert to TXT. Note that a small minority of .SSA files are proprietary binary game data archives for titles like Empire Earth; these cannot be converted to video subtitles.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SSA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SSA file to SRT, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV or ASF, you can use Aegisub or similar software from the "Advanced Subtitle Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to SSA, try Aegisub or another comparable tool in the "Advanced Subtitle Storage" category.
The SSA Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SSA converter.