Remove audio from video
Mute a video by removing its sound track entirely, without uploading it. When the video's codec allows, the picture is copied as it is, so the job is fast and the quality is unchanged.
Runs on your device. Your files never leave your browser.
How to use the remove audio from video
- 01Choose your video file, or drop it onto the box.
- 02Check the plan line: it says whether the picture will be copied without re-encoding.
- 03Click Remove audio, then download the silent video.
Mute video without re-encoding
Removing the sound does not need to touch the picture at all. When the video is H.264 or HEVC, the tool copies it into a new MP4 file as it is and leaves the sound track out, so the job takes moments and the picture is identical to the original. The plan line reads "Will convert without re-encoding" when that applies.
Only the picture's codec matters here, because the sound is being dropped whatever it is. A MOV or MKV file with H.264 video and any kind of sound can therefore be muted without re-encoding, and comes out as an MP4.
Video in any other codec, such as VP9 or AV1, is re-encoded on its own to H.264 in MP4, or to VP9 in WebM when your browser cannot make MP4, provided your browser can decode it. That is slower and costs a small amount of quality.
Removing the sound or turning it down
This tool removes the sound track completely: the output file has no audio track at all, rather than a track of silence.
To remove sound from video only for part of a clip, cut that part out with the trimmer or the splitter first. If the problem is that the sound is too quiet rather than unwanted, the volume tool raises it by up to 20 dB instead.
When you need more than a tool
Posting video that plays muted?
Anjin Media can burn captions into a render and export SRT and VTT files alongside it.
Questions about the remove audio from video
- Does removing the audio lose video quality?
- Not when the video is H.264 or HEVC: the picture is copied into the new file without re-encoding. Other codecs, provided your browser can decode them, are re-encoded to H.264 (or VP9 in WebM when your browser cannot make MP4), which costs a small amount of quality.
- What if my video has no sound already?
- The tool tells you the video already has no sound, and there is nothing for it to do.
- Can I keep the sound as a separate file?
- Not with this tool, which only drops it. To save the sound on its own, use the video to MP3 converter on the original file.
- Is my video uploaded?
- No. The sound is removed in your browser; your video, and the silent copy, never leave your device.
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