Export captions as .vtt (WebVTT) files

While I don't underand why Adobe hasn't come through on this yet, Veed.io has been a great, free workaround for me, and it's easy to use. 

https://www.veed.io/tools/subtitle-converter/srt-to-vtt

While we wait on Adobe to get with the requirements of ADA, here are two free sites that will convert SRT to VTT which is not the full solution we want but might be useful until we get one.

100% Editing Tools is https://en.editingtools.io/subtitles

Free and Pay Subtitle Tool https://subtitletools.com/convert-to-vtt-online

@TeresaDemel,

Thanks for working on this. I don't know how I missed this feature request in UserVoice. I suppose it was a) because it was old when the new caption workflow came along, and b) we still had .stl for export from what are now Subtitles. It took me a bit to realize .stl was gone for that purpose, since it was still listed in the reference guide as an option. That left no workaround for getting styling out of PR.

In any event, there is no longer a convenient way to get anything but font color out of PR in a sidecar from a Subtitle track.

I do not see in this thread so far the fact that Vimeo recommends VTT as its top choice:

https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/224968828-Captions-and-subtitles

"Vimeo supports the following captions and subtitles file formats: SRT, WebVTT, DFXP/TTML, SCC, and SAMI files, but we recommend using WebVTT whenever possible....

If you have captions or subtitles enabled as a viewer, you can access the Customize menu within CC settings to edit font size, font color, font edge styling, background color, and background opacity. Creators can also access this functionality by leveraging WebVTT standards in caption or subtitle files during upload."

I have not tested this recently, but Youtube's implementation of VTT is more limited than Vimeo (they most prefer .scc), but they export a VTT option that includes word specific timing.

I see references on many sites now to setting color and opacity for the "window" in addition to background.

I emphasize that sidecar export needs urgent attention, and it is not a simple choice. VTT is being used more.

The survey is a great idea, but the choices for what to include require adding too much under "other"!

Positioning (zone and more specific location)

Font family

Font size, font color, font edge styling, background color, and background opacity

In line font styles such as italics etc.

Stan

It sure is! I'm really hoping this is resolved soon!

The lack of a VTT export is quite the problem for us.