Besides the QuickTime subtitle Text (see the section called “QuickTime Text”) ELAN can export annotations to there are few other subtitle formats: SubRip (.srt), Spruce (.stl), Timed Text Markup Language(ttml) (.xml) and LRC (.lrc) . Click on File > Export As > Subtitle Text... and select the tiers(see the section called “How to select tiers” ) you want to include in the subtitle file. Specify whether the subtitles should be restricted to annotations in the selected time interval, whether the time of the selected interval should be recalculated to start from zero and if the master media time offset should be added to the annotations times. The third option lets you specify the minimal display duration of a subtitle. For instance, if a annotation is only 0.3 seconds long, but you want to display a subtitle at least 0.5 seconds, enter 500 (ms). Finally there is an option to specify that for each selected tier a separate subtitle file should be created. The default is to export all selected tiers to a single subtitle file.

Figure 49. Export as Subtitles text

After you have selected tiers and specified the options, click on OK. Enter a file name in the next window and click on Save.