Mute Video
Mute a video by dropping its audio tracks while the picture is copied across without re-encoding, so a two-minute clip finishes in seconds and the frames come back identical.
The clip
Video
Drop a video here
MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV · the picture is copied, never re-encoded
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What happens
What you'll get
How to use
- Drop the clip onto the Video area, or use Choose file. It loads into the player, which is the fastest way to confirm you grabbed the right take.
- Read What happens: the picture row says it is copied, the sound row names the track that comes off, and Lands as gives the file name.
- Press Mute and keep the tab open while the run row moves through the clip. Cancel stops it and leaves the original as it was.
- Play the muted take, switch to the source take if you want to compare, then press Download.
About this tool
Sometimes the picture is fine and the sound is the problem. A radio playing behind a demo. A colleague's phone call two desks away. Music you have no licence to publish. Muting removes the audio from the video and leaves every frame exactly where it was.
There is no encoding pass. The video track is copied straight out of the source file into a new file of the same kind, which is why a long clip finishes in seconds instead of the minutes a compressor would want, and why the muted copy decodes to the same pixels you started with.
Before you press anything the page names the track that comes off, Opus or AAC or whatever the clip carries, and the file it will land as. A MOV comes back as a MOV and a WebM as a WebM, with -muted added to the name, so the copy sorts beside the original in your downloads.
Muting leans on the browser's WebCodecs engine, so Chrome and Edge are the safe bets, with recent Safari and Firefox also fine. Without it the page says so once and the drop area stays off. A clip that has no sound to begin with is caught when it loads, and nothing is offered for it. Keeping the soundtrack? Run the clip through Extract Audio first.
Before you rely on it
- Every audio track goes. Keeping the narration while losing the background music is a job for an editor with two tracks and a fader.
- The copy stays in the container it arrived in. If the destination wants a different extension, put the muted file through the Video Converter afterwards; moving between containers is often instant there too.
- The whole output is assembled in memory before you get a download, so a very large file can run into your device's limits and fail rather than degrade.
Frequently asked questions
Will muting make the video look worse?
No. The encoded frames are copied over rather than decoded and encoded again, so what comes out is what went in, minus the sound.
What will the file be called?
Your clip's own name with -muted on the end and the same extension it came with, so interview.mov comes back as interview-muted.mov. The page shows the name before you press Mute.
How long does a big file take?
Seconds, usually. With no encoding pass the work is bounded by how fast the file can be read and rewritten, so a 4K clip is barely slower than a 720p one of the same length.
Why is Mute greyed out?
Either the clip has no audio track, which the note above the player says, or this browser lacks WebCodecs, which the note at the top says. Chrome and Edge have it, and so do recent Safari and Firefox.
Can I save the soundtrack before I strip it?
Run the same clip through Extract Audio first. It writes M4A, Opus, WAV or FLAC. Mute the original here afterwards and you end up with the picture and the sound as two separate files.
What happens if the clip has no audio to begin with?
The page notices as soon as the file loads, says the clip is already silent and keeps Mute off. Muting it would only hand back the same video, so nothing is offered.
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