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VIDEO BACKGROUND REMOVER

Instantly remove the background from any video in just one click. Compatible with most video file formats including MP4, MOV, AVI, and more.

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Instantly remove the background from a video in just one click

Replace video backgrounds on the spot. With one-click removal, automatic transparency, and easy swapping, you’re in control of your video background.

Magically remove the background of a video without manually tracking objects

Tracing around the subject of your video is exhausting (and unnecessary). Remove video backgrounds in an instant, and replace it with a solid color, image, or video just as quickly. Time to get more content done.

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Magically remove the background of a video without manually tracking objects

Get impressive studio-grade quality with or without a green screen

Don’t have a green screen? That’s okay. Kapwing’s video background remover still works great. And if you do shoot video with a green screen, try the chroma keying feature that easily removes green—or any background color you choose.

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Get impressive studio-grade quality with or without a green screen
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"Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations—it just works."

Eunice Park
Studio Production Manager at Formlabs

Every video creation tool you need, all in one place
Get all your editing done in one place. Craft your videos for every platform using powerful features accessible for everyone.
Online video editor
Edit your videos with our fast, powerful video editor. Accessible for beginners, feature-rich for pros. Available on any device.
Magic subtitles
AI-powered subtitles let you add  word-by-word captions to any video. Change colors, fonts, and add animations or transitions.
Generative AI
Text to video is here. Create videos with a simple text prompt that include stock clips, music, subtitles, and transitions.
Collaborative editing
Organize footage and files with a sharedworkspace. Review and share feedback with your fast with real-time comments.
Edit video with text
Edit a video just by editing text. Trim or clip sections of a video by removing text from the video's auto-generated transcript.
Automatic resize
Resize, flip, or crop videos to fit any platform. Special social media Safe Zones ensure your content always fits correctly.
Instant transcripts
Transcribe video to text with a single click. Repurpose audio or video content into articles and text posts, or convert to subtitles.
One-click translation
Take your content global and translate with 70+ languages in seconds. Accurate translation for transcripts and voice overs.
Enhance audio quality
Clean audio automatically, remove background noise, add music and effects, and split or merge audio with our built-in audio editor.

Streamline your workflow with a supercharged video editing software

Create video content without feeling overwhelmed by all the complex features. Kapwing offers a full video suite with user-friendly features for easy editing.

Capture viewers' attentions with polished marketing and training videos

Editing videos shouldn’t gobble up your time. Create professional content like tutorials and ad creatives with our fast platform. Automatically remove background noise, cut video clips by deleting words from your transcript, generate content with AI, and more.

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Capture viewers' attentions with polished marketing and training videos

Replace your video background with over thousands of high-quality stock footage

It can take longer than you expect to find the right video background or B-roll footage you want to use. With a built-in media library, powered by top stock providers like iStock, Pexels, and Pixabay, change the background of your video with the easy drag-and-drop feature. Start turning your own footage into professional-looking content.

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Replace your video background with over thousands of high-quality stock footage
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“Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers.

Grant Taleck

Co-Founder of AuthentIQ Marketing

How to Remove Background from Video

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  1. Upload video

    Upload your video or image from your device, or use a link from YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc.

  2. Remove video background 

    Click the “Remove Background” button in the Effects tab and give it a few seconds to load and start applying the neural network. When it's done, you will see a preview of which areas will be removed.

  3. Edit and export

    Edit your video accordingly using the video trimmer, resizer, and many more tools to get to your final video. When you're finished, click "Export project" and download a video file of your project. Save your own unique video URL link to easily share with others online.

Frequently Asked Questions

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How do you make a video background transparent?

Kapwing’s video background remover automatically makes your video background transparent so you can layer a new photo or video background behind your main video if you want. Otherwise, it will appear white. To make a transparent background, click “Remove Background” in the Effects tab, and it’s a done deal!

What is the AI tool to remove background from video?

Kapwing offers a video background removal tool that uses AI to separate the main focus of the video from the background. While Kapwing’s background removal tool works best on a single person, you can use it on any of your videos or our available stock footage. 

How can I replace the background of a video?

Automatically remove video background with our one click tool. Then, replace the original background by uploading a file or choosing an asset from our massive library of royalty-free images. Just like that, you’re chilling at the beach. For an interesting twist, swap out your background with a video instead of an image.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy
Easy
Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
Free
Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
Online
Online
Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
No spam or ads
No spam or ads
We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.
Powerful
Powerful
Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.
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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
Michael Trader
Information Services Freelancer
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This tool should be in every social media account managers' bookmark list.
I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, their is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.
Dina Segovia
Virtual Freelance Worker
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It just works!
Kapwing is incredibly intuitive. Many of our marketers were able to get on the platform and use it right away with little to no instruction. No need for downloads or installations - it just works.
Eunice Park
Studio Production Manager at Formlabs
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With Kapwing, we're always ready to create.
Kapwing is an essential tool that we use in MOXIE Nashville every day. As a social media agency owner, there's a variety of video needs that my clients have. From adding subtitles to resizing videos for various platforms, Kapwing makes it possible for us to create incredible content that consistently exceeds client expectations. With Kapwing, we're always ready to create - from anywhere!
Vannesia Darby
CEO at MOXIE Nashville
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Spend less time learning... and more time crafting stories.
Kapwing helps you spend less time learning complex video editing platforms and more time crafting stories that will connect with your audience and customers. We've used the platform to help create engaging social media clips from our clients' podcasts and we can't wait to see how the platform simplifies this process going forward. If you've learned graphic design with Canva, you can learn video editing with Kapwing.
Grant Taleck
Co-Founder at AuthentIQMarketing.com
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It keeps getting better!
Kapwing is probably the most important tool for me and my team. It’s always there to meet our everyday needs in creating scroll-stopping and engaging videos for us and our clients. Kapwing is smart, fast, easy to use and full of features that are exactly what we need to make our workflow faster and more effective. We love it more each day and it keeps getting better.
Panos Papagapiou
Managing Partner at EPATHLON
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By the far the most user friendly software to use.
As a housewife at home looking to start a Youtube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.
Kerry-lee Farla
Youtuber
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Kapwing is my secret weapon!
This is one of the most powerful, yet inexpensive and easy-to-use video editing software I've found. I blow my team away with how fast and efficiently I can edit and turnaround video projects.
Gracie Peng
Director of Content
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Kapwing is king.
When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.
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Love this site.
As a English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.
Heidi Rae
Education
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Excellent subtitling features
[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!
Natasha Ball
Consultant
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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
Mitch Rawlings
Information Services Freelancer
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