Turn SCC captions into TXT. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop SCC files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · several at once0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop SCC (CEA-608, EIA-608, line 21) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the TXT, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The SCC to TXT converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your captions are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
SCC is a hex dump that people cannot read or edit by hand, and web players do not read it. Plain text opens on every device and is easy to search or paste elsewhere. SCC is at home in closed captions for US and Canadian broadcast, DVD and some streaming deliveries; TXT is the usual choice for notes, logs and text that must be read by anything.
The text is read as UTF-8 or UTF-16, whichever the file is. An older file in another code page is read using the charset it declares, or as Windows-1252 if it declares none, so accented letters in an unlabelled legacy file can come out wrong. A file that is not text, such as the picture-based subtitles of a DVD, is refused instead of being converted to nonsense. CEA-608 pop-on, roll-up and paint-on captions on the first caption channel (or the second, if the first is empty) are read; colours are dropped, and a roll-up row becomes one cue that ends when it scrolls off. Times follow the 29.97 fps frame clock, drop-frame or not. The result is a transcript with one cue per line, without times; a cue's own line breaks become spaces.
SCC stores the CEA-608 caption data of line 21 video as lines of hexadecimal byte pairs, each line starting at a timecode, one pair per video frame. It is limited to 32 characters on up to four rows, a Latin character set and a frame-based clock (usually 29.97 fps drop-frame), but it is what American broadcasters and many video editors expect.
Opens in Broadcast and DVD authoring tools, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and VLC
SCC converterA TXT file is characters and nothing else: no fonts, no images, no layout. That makes it the most portable document there is, and the easiest to search, diff or feed into another program.
Opens in Every device and every text editor
TXT converter| SCCSCC closed captions | TXTPlain text | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Scenarist Closed Captions | Plain text |
| Type | Subtitles | Unformatted text |
| Compression | None (hex text) | None |
| Introduced | The 1990s, by Sonic Solutions (Scenarist) | The 1960s, by no single author |
| Opens in | Broadcast and DVD authoring tools, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and VLC | Every device and every text editor |
| Best for | Closed captions for US and Canadian broadcast, DVD and some streaming deliveries | Notes, logs and text that must be read by anything |
| File extension | .scc | .txt, .text, .log |
No. The SCC to TXT conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The content is carried over as faithfully as TXT allows; features that TXT does not have are left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the SCC file, press Convert and save the TXT. There is nothing to install.
Yes, but a subtitle file is small. Files up to 50 MB are accepted, far more than any real subtitle file. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.