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Remove a person from your video

A stranger wandered through your shot, or someone asked to be edited out — brush over them and CleanReel erases them across the clip, tracking their movement and rebuilding the background behind them.

Open the studio — free preview

Real capture: brush the object, tracking follows it through the shot, and the fill stays clean — sweep the before / after.

For content you own. Only upload videos you own or are licensed to edit. Uploads auto-delete within ~6 hours, results are never re-watermarked, and you see a free preview before paying anything.

Good uses

How it works

  1. Upload the video you own
  2. Brush over the person to remove
  3. Tick tracking so the mask follows them
  4. Preview free and refine the mask
  5. Export the cleaned full clip

Why CleanReel instead of cropping or blurring?

Crops lose framing and blur boxes draw the eye. CleanReel reconstructs the background with neural inpainting and shows a quality score, so the edit is invisible — and previews are free, so a result that isn't clean costs nothing.

FAQ

Is it legal to remove a person from a video?

For your own footage it's generally your call — though privacy and publicity laws vary, and CleanReel only accepts content you own or are licensed to edit.

The person walks across the whole frame — will it work?

Tracking follows the marked region, and temporal inpainting keeps the fill consistent between frames. Fast, erratic movement is harder — the free preview shows you before you pay.

What about just blurring them instead?

Often the better choice — Privacy blur finds and blurs faces automatically, and reads as deliberate redaction rather than an edit.

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