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Remove burned-in text from your video

Burned-in subtitles, timestamps from an old camera, captions in the wrong language — CleanReel removes baked-in text from footage you own and rebuilds the background behind it.

Open the studio — free preview

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

Hard-coded subtitles you need gone before re-captioning
Camera date/time stamps on family or archive footage
Old lower-thirds and titles on your own productions
Screen-recording overlays

How it works

Upload your clip (60s / 200 MB max)
Brush across the text region — or auto-detect it
Preview the clean result free
Re-run with an adjusted highlight if needed
Export in full quality with original audio

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

Can it remove subtitles from a downloaded movie?

No — only content you own or are licensed to edit. Typical legitimate uses are your own productions, archives, and licensed client work.

Text sits over a face — will the face survive?

Faces and detailed areas are protected by the engine; removal is gated so the subject stays sharp.

Scrolling or moving text?

Mark the full band it travels through, or use tracking for a moving region.

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