Free · nothing uploads · lossless with Pro
Mute video (remove audio)
Strips the audio track. On Pro the video stream stays byte-for-byte untouched and it finishes in seconds.
When you need this
Background noise ruining otherwise good footage, music you don't have rights to post, a screen recording narrated by your own thinking-out-loud, a clip destined for a platform where you'll add different audio anyway. Muting locally means the awkward original audio never touches a server on its way to deletion.
What muting does on free and on Pro
The tool removes the whole audio track; it does not silence one section of it. On Pro, the video stream is copied across untouched, packet for packet, into the same kind of container you gave it (MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV), which is why it finishes in seconds whatever the length. On the free tier the video is re-encoded once as H.264 at CRF 21, saved as an MP4 with a small corner mark, and files are capped at 200 MB.
Do not expect a much smaller file. A 128 kbps audio track is worth about 1 MB per minute, so on Pro, where the video is copied untouched, a 10-minute clip shrinks by roughly that much and no more. If the goal is a smaller file, compress the video instead. Removing audio without re-encoding covers what muting saves and when silence is the wrong fix.
Frequently asked questions
- Does muting reduce video quality?
- On Pro, no. The audio track is dropped and the video stream is copied without re-encoding, so the picture is byte-identical to the original. The free tier re-encodes the video once at a high quality setting and adds a small corner mark.
- Why is it so fast?
- On Pro, nothing is re-encoded. The container is rewritten without the audio track, which is mostly a copy operation, so even large files finish in seconds. The free tier re-encodes the video, so it takes about as long as a conversion.
- Is there a watermark on muted videos?
- Free muted exports re-encode the video and carry a small corner VidClip mark. Pro mutes losslessly: the video stream is copied untouched in seconds, with no watermark.
- Is my video uploaded anywhere?
- No. VidClip runs FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly inside your browser. The file is read from your disk into the page's memory, processed there, and saved back to your disk. There is no upload, no server queue, and no copy of your footage anywhere but your machine.