Detach the sound, then mute or delete it, and play it back. The picture never changes.
Remove sound from video by detaching it onto its own clip and then muting or deleting that clip. The picture never moves, because the two were separate items the whole time. It all happens in your browser, on the timeline where the rest of the edit is going to happen anyway.
How to remove audio from a video in three steps
- 01
Bring the clip in
Drop the video on the timeline and let its audio land on the track below.
- 02
Mute or delete the sound
Silence the whole audio clip, or blade out only the part you want gone.
- 03
Export without it
Render MP4 up to 4K locally, silent or with whatever you put back instead.
What removing the audio actually does
Separate audio layers are a Compose V2 capability, and V2 is arriving per workspace.
Sound detaches from picture
A video's audio can be pulled onto an audio clip of its own. From that moment the two are independent items: silence one, cut one, move one, and the other carries on exactly as it was.
Mute before you delete
Muting keeps the audio on the timeline and inaudible, and it reverses in a click. Deleting removes it. Reaching for the first means a change of mind later costs nothing.
Take out part of it
The audio clip blades like picture does, so a single noise in the middle of an otherwise good take is removable on its own. Everything either side keeps playing and the video above never notices.
Put something else there
An empty audio track is where a music bed or a narration goes, with a fade at each end so the replacement does not start abruptly. Several layers can share the space, each at its own level.
Silence by asking
Mute every clip on the B-roll track is one instruction across the whole timeline. Copilot reads the current mix state before acting, and whatever it changes undoes together.
Export it silent
A timeline with nothing audible on it renders a genuinely silent MP4 on your own machine, with no queue and nothing added on the way out.
Silence draws attention to the picture, and the picture is not always ready for it. Where a muted cut leaves a gap that wants a stronger shot, generate one here from the same roster the project already draws on and drop it in before you export. Seedance 2.5 is one of the video models on it.
Mute video without losing the take
Muting and deleting solve the same problem now and different problems in a week. The version of a clip with its sound is the only record of what was actually said.
Keeping the audio on the timeline and silent costs nothing and keeps that record. It also leaves the obvious move available: unmute, listen, mute again. On a cut where half the clips are silenced under a music bed and half are not, that toggle is the whole workflow, and deleting the sound is what takes it away.
Remove sound from video when only part of it is the problem
Whole-video muting is a blunt answer to one specific noise: a phone ringing under a line, a chair scraping, a passer-by saying a name. The rest of the audio is usually the point of the recording.
- Detach the sound from the picture.
- Blade either side of the moment.
- Delete the middle, and let the audio close up or leave the gap, depending on whether the silence reads as deliberate.
- Fade each new edge so the drop is not audible as a click.
The picture runs through it untouched. That is the whole reason audio is a clip here and not a property of the video.
Video mute for a feed that plays silent
Social feeds start muted, so a video built on the assumption that sound arrives later is a video most people watch without it. Export it genuinely silent instead of relying on the platform.
It also changes what the cut has to do. Whatever the audio was carrying now has to be visible: titles where a voice made something clear, and a slightly slower cut so a reader keeps up. Silencing the timeline first makes those gaps obvious, because you watch it the way the audience will. Once they are filled, adding text or choosing to add background music to video is a decision instead of a rescue.
Related video tools
Online video editor
Picture, sound, titles and colour on one timeline instead of four tools.
Add music to video
Fill the silence you just made with a bed at the level you choose.
AI voiceover generator
Narration to carry what the original audio was doing before you cut it.
Add text to video
Say on screen what a muted video can no longer say out loud.
AI subtitle generator
Keep the words when you keep the sound off, timed to the delivery.
Video trimmer
Cut the moment out entirely when muting it is not quite enough.
AI voice changer
Re-voice a take instead of losing it, keeping the original delivery.
Video to text transcription
Get the words out of the audio before it comes off the timeline.
