Hello, Can you please tell me why the web address has been removed? This VTT cleaner was extremely helpful.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/media/stream-utils/cleanvtt.html
Jun 08 2020 08:57 AM - edited Jun 08 2020 09:07 AM
I googled and found this post in the wrong forum:
The website is down. Was it removed?
Hello, Can you please tell me why the web address has been removed? This VTT cleaner was extremely helpful.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/media/stream-utils/cleanvtt.html
Jun 08 2020 09:25 AM
@drusome It is a tool from @Marc Mroz. Marc, can you say something to this?
Jun 09 2020 03:14 PM
I also just noticed the VTT cleaner missing. This app was indispensable for making sense of Stream transcripts! Not sure what else to use... @drusome
Jun 09 2020 04:41 PM
Hi @naomiii ,
I did a google search for VTTcleaner, and then clicked on the google cache version. It works for now, but I'm worried that it will go away too..
Jun 09 2020 04:47 PM
Thanks so much for the suggestion, @drusome , that worked for me. I hope it continues to work until we get some answers.
Jun 10 2020 06:17 PM
Hi @drusome the VVT cleaner with link to Microsoft docs doesn't even come up in my searches now. I guess there's no way I can find the cached version now, can you comment?
Jun 10 2020 06:26 PM
Jun 10 2020 09:36 PM
Hi @drusome and everyone, I did some searching (I couldn't use the cached file that one of the responders mentioned). So I did some searching and found these instructions. They clean the VVT file just like the microsoft docs link did. There's a few steps but super easy, takes a few minutes. Hope this helps.
- Copy and paste all text from the VVT file into Excel. Select all.
- Do a find and replace on NOTE* and replace with a blank
- Do a find and replace on *-* and replace with a blank
- Then to get rid of the blank rows, do ctrl G to open the "Go to" popup. Click "Special". Select "Blanks".
- In the Home menu of Excel, go to the "Cells" section. Click the "Delete" drop down and select "delete sheet rows".
- Copy the text to Word, use the paste special function to copy just the text so as not to copy the text in the rows.
- In Word: do CTRL A to select all, CTRL H to find and replace, click MORE, then under special, choose paragraph mark, then replace all.
- Your data is now ready for editing.
Jun 11 2020 06:23 AM
Hi @KWildman and all,
https://subtitletools.com/convert-subtitles-to-plain-text-online
Found this on anther thread dealing with this and wanted to pass on here. Makes pretty quick work of it.
Best
Jun 11 2020 08:40 AM
Here is the link to the cached version @KWildman
Jun 11 2020 01:52 PM
Solution@drusome @naomiii @ericlott @KWildman Thx to everyone in this thread for participating till now!
I could access the cached version of the VTTCleaner and view the html source. I extracted the code and I have written a PowerShell script to clean a VTT file. It is in my GitHub repo now. See: https://github.com/tomka75/Tools/tree/master/MicrosoftStream/VTTCleaner
Call:
.\Clean-MicrosoftStreamVttFile.ps1 -File MicrosoftStreamVideoTranscriptDemo.vtt
Result is a clean text output in file MicrosoftStreamVideoTranscriptDemo.vttcleaned.
I hope this can help someone!
Jun 12 2020 11:24 AM
Hi @Tomislav Karafilov. Just wanted to say a BIG high 5 for your share of the VTTCleaner code (and an equally big thanks to @Marc Mroz. for the original). This has saved HOURS of work. I'm a happy person this evening :)
Jun 15 2020 07:25 AM
This works if you set output as plain text: https://toolslick.com/conversion/subtitle/all
Jun 16 2020 02:23 AM
@drusome I've been cleaning my VTTs via Excel. I documented how to do that in a video here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t274fWR1mIo
Jun 18 2020 01:18 PM
New link everyone!
https://amsglob0cdnstream13.azureedge.net/vttcleaner/CleanVTT.html
Jun 11 2020 01:52 PM
Solution@drusome @naomiii @ericlott @KWildman Thx to everyone in this thread for participating till now!
I could access the cached version of the VTTCleaner and view the html source. I extracted the code and I have written a PowerShell script to clean a VTT file. It is in my GitHub repo now. See: https://github.com/tomka75/Tools/tree/master/MicrosoftStream/VTTCleaner
Call:
.\Clean-MicrosoftStreamVttFile.ps1 -File MicrosoftStreamVideoTranscriptDemo.vtt
Result is a clean text output in file MicrosoftStreamVideoTranscriptDemo.vttcleaned.
I hope this can help someone!