You load a subtitle and see <i>Hello</i>, <font color="#ffff00"> or {\an8} on screen instead of clean text. Your player or TV doesn’t understand the formatting tags, so it shows them as text.
Common tags
- HTML-style:
<i>,<b>,<u>,<font color=...> - ASS-style:
{\an8}(position at the top),{\i1},{\c&H00FFFF&}
Strip them online
The free remove subtitle formatting tool removes italic, bold, font color and ASS position tags and keeps the timing. It runs in your browser.
Should you keep italics?
Italics usually mean a voice off screen, a phone call or a song. If your player supports <i>, keep it; strip only the tags it shows as text.
Related cleanups
- Remove
[music]and speaker names: remove hearing impaired text. - Broken characters instead of tags: fix subtitle encoding.