A review sheet is not a delivery check
Translators and QCers search for a Netflix subtitle workflow because the buyer’s style guide is specific:
how long a line may be, how fast it may read, how forced narratives and italics are marked, what to do
with on-screen text. Those rules live in the guide the buyer sent, and they get revised. A web converter
that claimed to “pass Netflix QC” would be inventing a score from a summary of someone else’s document.
This page does not do that.
What it does: take the delivery .srt and write a Word file where each cue is still its own
block and the time range is still printed. You put that next to the picture and mark the lines a person
has to fix. The marks are comments. The fixes happen in the SRT, in a subtitle editor, by someone who is
allowed to change the timed text.
Settings that keep one cue visible
Merge same speaker is the control that ruins a QC sheet. It exists so a lecture becomes
paragraphs. On a timed-text review it glues the next cue onto this one whenever the gap is about 2.5
seconds, which is most dialogue. Turn it off. Leave Show timestamps on. The range is how
you find the frame. Cue numbers feel precise and then rot as soon as a line is split; do not add them back
into the Word file as a private index.
If the clocks themselves are wrong — a constant offset, or a gap that grows because of frame rate — fix
that before anyone spends an hour on wording.
Fix SRT timing is the diagnosis. A document that prints a bad range sends
the reviewer to the wrong frame, and the wording note they write will be about the wrong line.
Two languages and forced narratives
A cue that already contains the source line and the translation stays one block. This tool will not split
it into columns. Build the table afterward if the reviewer needs a column, using
bilingual subtitle columns. Do not turn merge on to “clean up”
a bilingual file; that is how the translation sticks to the following cue.
Forced narratives, italics, and sound-effect brackets such as [door slams] are characters in
the cue. They come through as text. The converter does not decide whether a bracket is allowed, whether
italics survived, or whether an on-screen title should have been a forced narrative. If you need that
judgment, it is yours. If the preview shows tags you did not want, they were in the SRT. Re-export from
the authoring tool rather than search-and-replacing a feature-length file inside Word.
What you hand over
Hand the reviewer qc-sheet.docx, the video, and the style guide they are actually working
to. Hand the editor the SRT. Do not send the Word file as the package a platform ingests. Do not paste
QC comments into the cue text “so they travel with the file.” They will travel onto the screen.
One SRT converts with no account. The sheet is free because it is one file. A folder of episodes is the
separate batch job, and it should use merge off as well if every episode is a QC sheet.
Related workflows
Download the .docx
Merge same speaker must be off or neighboring cues glue together and you can no longer see a line break. Show timestamps stays on. Download qc-sheet.docx and mark it in Word. Deliver the SRT, not the .docx.
