Mute a video by dropping its audio track entirely. The picture is copied across untouched, so the result is identical in quality and takes seconds rather than minutes.
Drop an MP4 or MOV here, or click to choose one
Processed in this tab — the file is never uploaded
Drop it in or click to browse. The file is read in this tab and never uploaded, so there is no transfer to wait through before anything happens.
The tool lists the tracks it found. If there is no audio track it tells you so rather than producing a pointless copy — a surprisingly common case with screen recordings and drone footage.
The audio track is dropped and the video track is copied across untouched. No encoder runs, so this finishes in seconds regardless of how long the clip is.
You get the same file, same resolution, same quality, with no sound. The picture is bit-for-bit what you started with.
Removing audio does not require decoding the video, and this tool does not. The video track is copied across as-is, so there is no re-compression and no quality loss.
Editors re-export the whole timeline to mute a clip, which means re-encoding every frame. Dropping a track is a container operation and finishes almost immediately.
The reason people mute a video is often that the audio contains something they do not want shared. Uploading it to a web service to remove it defeats the purpose entirely.
Codec, resolution, sample rate and channel count are listed before you commit, so you know exactly what is being removed and what is being kept.
There is nothing to sign up for, because there is no server cost to recover. The work happens on your machine.
A video with no audio track is perfectly valid and plays everywhere. Nothing downstream needs to know it was ever different.
Privacy is the biggest one, and it is the reason this belongs in a browser rather than on somebody else's server. A screen recording made to demonstrate a bug often has a colleague talking over it. A clip filmed in an office picks up conversations that were never meant to travel. Removing that audio before sharing is exactly right — but uploading the file to a web service in order to do it hands over the very recording you were trying to sanitise.
Copyright is the practical one. Background music in a clip filmed at an event, in a shop, or with a radio on will get a video muted, blocked or taken down on most platforms. Removing the audio yourself, before upload, avoids an automated claim against your account and is far less disruptive than having a platform mute it for you.
Then there is footage destined for something else entirely. Video used as a background loop on a website, in a presentation, or behind a live voiceover should not carry its original sound. Shipping it silent removes a whole class of accident — the loop that unexpectedly starts talking during a meeting.
The reason to do this as a remux rather than in an editor is straightforward: an editor re-exports, which re-encodes, which degrades the picture and takes real time. Muting a clip should not cost you image quality, and here it does not.
Drop the audio track rather than re-exporting the file. That is what this tool does: the video track is copied across byte-for-byte and only the audio is left out. Any approach that "renders" or "exports" the video is re-encoding it, which always costs some quality — unnecessarily, since muting requires no change to the picture at all.
Substantially, and the gap grows with clip length. An editor re-encodes every frame on export, so a long clip takes minutes or longer. Removing a track is a container-level operation whose cost is reading and writing bytes, so it completes in seconds.
No. Everything happens in your browser tab. This matters more here than for most tools, because the reason for muting a video is frequently that its audio is sensitive — uploading it to strip the sound would defeat the point.
Not with this tool — it removes the audio track entirely. Silencing a section means editing the audio waveform and re-encoding it, which is an editor's job. If you only need certain moments silent, edit the audio elsewhere; if you need the whole thing gone, this is the fast, lossless way.
The tool detects that and says so instead of producing a needless copy. It is a common situation with screen recordings, drone footage and time-lapses, where no microphone was ever involved.
Yes, by roughly the size of the audio track — typically a few percent of a video file, since video dominates the bitrate. If your goal is a substantially smaller file, removing audio will disappoint you; that requires re-compressing the video itself.