Facebook video to SRT and VTT subtitles
Facebook video autoplays muted in the feed by default, which is exactly why captions matter — but a video cross-posted from another platform frequently arrives without any caption track, even if the original upload had one.
Transcribing the video's audio directly produces a caption file independent of what carried over from the original source. Export SRT for editing software, or VTT if you're embedding the video with a native player — useful for marketing and creator accounts repurposing the same upload across platforms and needing captions to survive the trip.
- Doesn't depend on captions surviving a cross-post from another platform.
- Covers Facebook Live replays as well as native uploads.
- SRT for editors, VTT for embedding — same export options as everywhere else.
Facebook specifics
- Typical length
- Ranges widely: short feed clips, longer creator/Page uploads, and Live replays that can run an hour or more.
- Worth knowing
- Business and marketing accounts are the heaviest users of Facebook video, and ad creative in particular is watched muted-first, which is why captioning matters more here than raw caption-availability numbers suggest.
Best formats for subtitles and captions
- SRT — video editors — Premiere, Final Cut, CapCut, DaVinci
- VTT — web players — the HTML5 <track> element
Workflow
- Run the Facebook video URL through transcript.land.
- Export SRT for editing software, or VTT for a web player.
- Import the file into your editor's caption track, or attach it to the <video> element.
- If you trim the video after export, shift the subtitle file's timing to match — it's relative to the original.
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The free tier includes 15 minutes of video a month, AI transcripts in any language, and TXT/SRT/VTT/JSON export — enough to run one Facebook video through and see the output before committing to anything.