Remove a video background without a green screen

You don’t need a studio or a green screen to isolate your subject anymore. Background Removal uses AI to separate the foreground from whatever is behind it — a normal room, an outdoor scene, anything — and lets you export a transparent clip or place your subject on a new background.

1. Upload your clip

Open Background Removal and add a video. Clips are processed up to 30 seconds.

2. Choose a method

There are three ways to cut the background, from easiest to most precise:

• AI Auto-Detect — one click. The AI finds the main subject and removes everything behind it. Best for ordinary footage with no green screen.
• AI Precision — for tricky edges like flyaway hair or motion blur, you paint a quick mask over the subject to guide the AI.
• Green-Screen Chroma Key — if you did film against a green or blue screen, this keys it out with fine control over spill and edge blending, at a lower cost.

3. Decide what goes behind

Once the background is removed you can:

• Keep it transparent (see the next section for the format that preserves this),
• Replace it with a solid color,
• Composite your subject onto an uploaded image, or
• Blur the original background.

4. Pick a format and render

This step matters for transparency: WebM and WebP preserve a real transparent background; MP4 and GIF do not. MP4 has no transparency channel at all, and GIF only supports hard on/off edges. So if you need the background to actually be see-through — for overlaying the subject in another editor or on a web page — choose WebM or WebP. Then render.

When to use which method

• Everyday clips shot on a phone → AI Auto-Detect.
• Detailed edges, hair, or a busy background → AI Precision with a guide mask.
• Footage you deliberately shot on a colored screen → Chroma Key.

Uploading, previewing, and switching methods are free — you only spend credits when you render, and failed jobs are refunded automatically.