Object
A wooden box in a moving shot
Real footage, handheld push-in, a person moving in front.
● People · Passers-by · PhotobombersFree preview — no sign-up
Remove people from video.
The stranger in your shot.
Someone walked through your take or stood at the edge of the frame. Draw a box around them and we rebuild what was behind them.
Drop a video here
MP4 · MOV · WEBM — up to 10 min
- Free preview
- No sign-up
- Original resolution kept
Live render · shinjuku_night_1080p.mp4
00:00:00:00Clean plateOriginal
Unretouched output from our pipeline — drag the pink playhead to compare. Footage: Tianwang Xiao / Pexels. Subtitles added by us, then removed by our pipeline.
480 / 480
frames returned, none dropped
< 2 / 255
avg. pixel change outside the mask
4 × 6 s
segments, seams crossfaded over 8 frames
1080p
delivered at the size you uploaded
00 · What to expect
How to remove a person from a video
Draw an object box around the person and the area they cover, including their shadow. Everything inside the box is rebuilt from the surrounding frames. A person standing still at the edge of a steady shot, or someone small in the background, usually comes out clean. The rest of the frame is copied from your original.
People who move are harder. If the background behind them shows up in other frames, as when someone walks past a wall, the tool can fill it from those frames. If a person crosses quickly close to the camera and the area behind them is hidden for long, the fill can smear. Preview the worst frame before you render.
Use HD (720p rebuild, 3 credits per second) when the person stands in front of fine detail like foliage, railings or a crowd. Keep the box as tight as the motion allows, and preview before you render. Please only edit footage you shot or are licensed to edit, and respect the people you film.
00 · Field notes
How to remove people from video: tourists and passers-by
Can I clear tourists out of a travel shot?
It depends on how many there are and how they move. One or two people in the distance, in a steady shot of a square, a beach or a viewpoint, are a good fit: box each person with their shadow. A crowd that fills the frame is not, because no frame shows clean background to borrow from. In busy places, removing the few people nearest the camera often does more than trying to empty the scene.
Someone at the edge of the frame or crossing the centre?
A person standing at the edge is the easier case. The box is small, the background behind them often shows as they shift, and viewers look at the centre anyway. Someone who walks across the middle is harder. The boxes have to cover their whole route, and if they pass close to the camera the hidden area is large. Expect more smear there, and check that stretch in the preview.
What if they are only in part of the clip?
Give the box a start and end time that match when the person is in shot. A passer-by who appears for three seconds only needs those three seconds rebuilt, and the rest of the clip stays original. For someone walking through, split their route into a few boxes, each timed to a short stretch. Each box then stays smaller than one rectangle over the whole route. You can use up to 24 boxes per video.
Standard or HD for people?
Standard is often enough for small, distant figures against grass, sand, water or a wall. Choose HD when the person is large in the frame or stands in front of leaves, railings, other people or other fine detail. If a stranger partly overlaps someone you want to keep, say brushing past your friend’s shoulder, part of your friend is rebuilt too, and hair and faces can look soft.
Related tools: Remove objects from video, Video eraser for text and objects, Remove emoji from video. Hands-on notes in our guides.
01 · Examples
Gone, frame after frame.
Three clips we ran through the same pipeline you will use. Run your cursor across any of them — or press and hold on a phone — to bring back what was there.
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Text on a face
A caption across someone’s face
Hardest case: skin, lips and a talking jaw behind the letters.
Sticker + title
A promo badge and a title card
A solid badge and a title over a busy fruit stall, camera moving.
02 · How it works
Three steps. No timeline.
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Drop the clip
MP4 or MOV, up to 10 minutes. Nothing to install, no sign-up for the preview.
clip_final_v3.mov - 02
Pick what goes
We box every line of text for you — tick the ones to remove. Or draw a box over an object.
3 text boxes found2 selected - 03
Get a clean plate
We rebuild the pixels behind it on every frame and hand back your video at its original resolution, with its audio.
render · 1080p00:00:41:077 / 10 segments · audio kept
03 · Under the hood
A minute of video, in parallel.
We cut your clip into six-second segments and clean them all at once. Neighbouring segments overlap by eight frames and are crossfaded, so nothing flickers at the seams. Then only the masked pixels are pasted back onto your original.
01 · Your upload · 60 s · 1080p1,440 frames
02 · Ten segments, rendered side by side//// 8-frame crossfade
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03 · Mask pasted back · audio re-attachedClean plate
04 · Pricing
Pay by the second. Not by the month.
One credit cleans one second of video. HD costs three. Failed renders refund themselves. Credits last a year. New accounts get 20 free.
1 min 30 s
- Credits
- 90
- About
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600 credits every month · cancel any time
$12.90 / mo
05 · FAQ
Before you upload.
How do I remove people from a video?
Upload the clip, draw an object box around the person and their shadow, and check the free one-frame preview. If it looks right, render in Standard or HD and download the result.
Can I remove a person who is walking through the shot?
Often, yes, if the background behind them is visible in nearby frames. A fast walker close to the camera, hiding the background for a long time, can leave a smear.
Will removing a person change the rest of my video?
Only the boxed area is rebuilt. The rest is copied from your original, with an average change under 2/255 outside the mask, at your original resolution and with your original audio.
How much does it cost to remove a person from a 30-second clip?
Standard costs 30 credits for 30 seconds, HD costs 90. Credits last 12 months. Packs start at $4.90 for 150 credits, and new accounts get 20 free credits.
Can I remove a whole crowd from a video?
No. The fill is built from frames where the background is visible. When a crowd covers it in every frame, there is nothing to rebuild from. Remove the few people nearest the camera instead.
Can I remove someone standing right next to me?
Yes, with an object box around them. Where they overlap you, part of you is rebuilt too and can look soft, especially hair. HD helps. Only do this with footage you shot or are licensed to edit.
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