TikTok video to SRT subtitles
TikTok's on-screen captions are a sticker a creator has to add per video — plenty of uploads have none, and even where captions are visible, they're burned into the video image, not stored as a separate file you can download.
Because of that, getting a real subtitle file out of a TikTok means transcribing the audio directly rather than trying to extract on-screen text. Paste the video URL, export SRT for editing software or VTT for a web player — the process is the same whether the original had visible captions or not, since either way the actual text comes from the audio track.
- Works even when TikTok's on-screen captions were never turned on for that video.
- Produces a real, separate subtitle file — not a screen recording of burned-in text.
- SRT for re-editing or cross-posting, VTT for embedding elsewhere.
TikTok specifics
- Typical length
- Mostly 15 seconds to 3 minutes, with a smaller tail of videos up to 10 minutes.
- Worth knowing
- Because visible captions are baked into the video pixels rather than stored as text, getting a real caption file means transcribing the audio track directly — true whether or not the on-screen captions are visible.
Best formats for subtitles and captions
- SRT — video editors — Premiere, Final Cut, CapCut, DaVinci
- VTT — web players — the HTML5 <track> element
Workflow
- Run the TikTok 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 TikTok video through and see the output before committing to anything.