Free · 128 to 320 kbps · nothing uploads
Video to MP3
Pull the audio out of a video as a clean MP3: lectures, interviews, music, voice memos trapped in video files.
What this is actually for
The recurring cases: a lecture or webinar you want on your phone as audio, an interview you need to transcribe, a voice memo someone recorded as a video, a track from a performance video. One file in, one MP3 out, and because processing is local it works on footage you'd never upload to a random converter site, which is most footage worth extracting.
What the MP3 tool does to the audio
The video stream is dropped and the audio is encoded with the LAME MP3 encoder at the bitrate you pick: 128, 192 or 320 kbps, with 192 as the default. That is always a fresh encode, even when the video already carries AAC audio, so a higher bitrate cannot add detail the source never had. 192 kbps suits anything mixed, 128 kbps is plenty for pure speech you want small, and 320 kbps only pays off on genuinely high-quality music.
The size is plain arithmetic. 128 kbps works out to about 0.96 MB per minute, 192 kbps to about 1.4 MB and 320 kbps to 2.4 MB, so a one-hour lecture at 128 kbps lands near 58 MB. The MP3 carries no watermark on the free tier, which takes videos up to 200 MB. If you would rather copy the original audio stream out untouched, extracting audio from video covers when that beats an MP3.
Frequently asked questions
- Which bitrate should I pick?
- 192 kbps is transparent for almost everything and is the default. Use 128 kbps for speech where size matters (podcasts, lectures), 320 kbps when the source is high-quality music.
- Is this a lossless extraction?
- The audio is re-encoded to MP3, so it's not bit-identical, but from any normal video source the difference is inaudible. No watermark applies to audio output, ever.
- 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.