Text on a face
A caption across someone’s face
Hardest case: skin, lips and a talking jaw behind the letters.
● Subtitles · Captions · Burned-inFree preview — no sign-up
Remove subtitles from video.
Even the burned-in kind.
Upload the clip, keep the subtitle lines the detector finds, and we rebuild the picture behind every letter. Your audio and resolution stay as they were.
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 · Why it works
How we remove hardcoded subtitles from video
Hardcoded subtitles are pixels, not a separate track, so there is nothing to switch off. When you upload, the detector proposes a box for each line of text it finds. Nothing is removed until you tick it. Subtitle boxes default to text mode, which rebuilds only the letters and their outline and leaves the rest of the box as it was.
Each line is rebuilt from the frames around it, so a wall, a sky or a street behind the words comes back with its own texture. Everything outside the mask is copied from your original: in our measurements the average change there is under 2/255. The output keeps your resolution and your audio track.
Standard rebuilds the masked area at 480p and pastes it back at full size, which suits most subtitles over plain or slow backgrounds. Choose HD (720p) when large captions sit over faces, hair or fine moving detail. Those areas can look soft in Standard. A tighter box around each line also helps, because less of the picture has to be rebuilt.
00 · Field notes
Can you remove subtitles from video in every case?
I want to re-sub a translated video. Where do I start?
A typical job: a clip arrives with burned-in subtitles in one language and you need clean frames for new ones. Upload it and let the detector propose a box for each line. Keep the subtitle boxes, untick any text that belongs to the scene, and render. Then add the new subtitles in your editor as usual. Placing them where the old lines were is a good habit, because any soft patch ends up underneath them.
What if the captions change position during the clip?
Some videos move subtitles to the top when something important sits at the bottom, or show speaker names in a different spot. You can use up to 24 boxes per video, and each box can have its own start and end time. Give each position its own box and set the times to when that caption is on screen. The area is then only rebuilt while text is actually there.
Can it handle karaoke or word-by-word captions?
Karaoke captions that change colour word by word, or captions that pop in one word at a time, stay in the same band of the frame, so one box per line usually covers them. Size the box for the longest version of the line, including any highlight or outline. Captions that bounce, scale up or fly across the frame are harder: the box has to cover the whole path, and a bigger box means more picture is rebuilt.
Standard or HD for subtitles?
Most subtitles sit on a dark band, a sky, a wall or a slow background, and Standard handles those well. It rebuilds at 480p, pastes back at full size and costs 1 credit per second. HD rebuilds at 720p for 3 credits per second. It is worth paying for when large captions cover faces, hair or detailed moving texture, which can look soft in Standard. The one-frame preview is free, so check before you choose.
Related tools: Remove emoji from video, Remove your logo from video, Video eraser for text and objects. 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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Sticker + title
A promo badge and a title card
A solid badge and a title over a busy fruit stall, camera moving.
Object
A wooden box in a moving shot
Real footage, handheld push-in, a person moving in front.
02 · How it works
Three steps. No timeline.
- 01
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
S01queued
S02queued
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S04queued
S05queued
S06queued
S07queued
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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
- $2.23
- Fits in
- Try
Try
One short clip150 credits · 3 min standard
$4.90
Creator
Most popular600 credits · 10 min standard
$14.90
Studio
Best rate2,000 credits · 33 min standard
$39.90
Monthly
600 credits every month · cancel any time
$12.90 / mo
05 · FAQ
Before you upload.
How do I remove subtitles from a video?
Upload an MP4, MOV or WebM clip up to 10 minutes. The tool boxes every line of text it detects. Keep the subtitle boxes, untick anything else, check the free preview, then render.
Does it work on hardcoded subtitles or only on soft subtitle files?
It is made for hardcoded ones, the subtitles burned into the picture. Soft subtitles (SRT or embedded tracks) can be turned off in your player or editor, so you do not need us for those.
Will the background behind the subtitles look blurred?
No blur is applied. The background is rebuilt from nearby frames. Over plain backgrounds it is usually hard to spot. Over faces or fast detail it can look soft, so try HD or a tighter box there.
What does removing subtitles from a 1-minute video cost?
Standard is 1 credit per second, so 60 credits for a minute. HD is 3 credits per second, 180 for a minute. New accounts get 20 free credits, and failed renders are refunded.
Can I remove only some of the subtitle lines?
Yes. Every detected line gets its own box, and nothing is removed unless you tick it. You can keep a speaker name or a title card, for example, and remove only the dialogue lines.
Can I remove subtitles from a video longer than 10 minutes?
Not in one file. The limit is 10 minutes and 800 MB per upload. Split the longer video into parts in your editor, process each part, then join them again.
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