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ASS Subtitles (Advanced SSA)
An Advanced SubStation Alpha (.ass) subtitle with a styles section and three timed Dialogue events — the styled format libass renders — carrying the same captions as the SRT/VTT twins.
Preview — first 17 linesass
[Script Info]
Title: Novus Examples sample captions
ScriptType: v4.00+
WrapStyle: 0
PlayResX: 1280
PlayResY: 720
[V4+ Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding
Style: Default,Arial,48,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&H00000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,1,2,10,10,20,1
[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.50,Default,,0,0,0,,Welcome to Novus Examples.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.50,0:00:05.00,Default,,0,0,0,,These are free sample subtitle files.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0,0,0,,Use them to test parsers, players, and converters.
Specifications
- Format
- Advanced SubStation Alpha (v4.00+)
- Cues
- 3
- Timing
- H:MM:SS.mm
- Captions
- same as the SRT/VTT twins
- Sections
- Script Info, V4+ Styles, Events
What is a .ass file?
ASS (Advanced SubStation Alpha, .ass) is a feature-rich subtitle format that extends SSA with precise styling, positioning, fonts, colours, and animation override tags. It is the standard for fansubs and anime, and is rendered by libass in players like VLC and mpv.
How to use this file
Use an example .ass file to test subtitle parsers and renderers (libass), style and timing extraction, and conversion to or from SRT, VTT, and TTML.
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Generated by generation/subtitles_extra.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.