Free video background remover

Easily blur, replace, or remove your webcam background with the free video background remover! Get creative by personalizing your webcam video with a virtual background.

Available for free on Mac and Windows.

Remove your background for free

Brand your videos

Build, showcase, and reinforce your brand with a virtual background or company logo.

Record confidently

Make a great impression and look professional by removing background distractions.

Focus your message

Help your content stand out with a virtual background image relevant to your video.

Have fun anywhere

Upload your favorite photo as a virtual background – a home, office, beach, galaxy, or more!

Look like a pro in your video recordings

Customize your webcam background

Update before you record using our free screen recorder.

Change anytime after you record using our free video editor. Upload your own file or use an image from our stock library. Choose from soft, medium, or hard edge detection.

Update your webcam background

Choose from 3 types of background effects

Remove background

Remove your background for full transparency when you record both your screen and webcam. Drag your webcam anywhere on the screen to improve the visibility of the content.

Blur background

Increase your privacy, hide clutter, and remove distractions with the blur background feature. The video appears natural while keeping the focus on you and your message.

Virtual background

Replace your background with an image for a new, virtual background. Show your personality with a casual, professional, or fun environment. There are endless possibilities.

Record from anywhere with a virtual background

Get creative with virtual backgrounds

Improve engagement and relevancy with virtual backgrounds by customizing each video for your audience and topic.

Create different versions of the video with unique backgrounds for different clients, industries, etc. You can even change backgrounds at various points throughout the video to emphasize your message.

Get started with virtual backgrounds

Choose from thousands of stock images

With virtual backgrounds, you can upload your own background file from your computer, choose from a selection of free images in the background remover tool, or select an image from our stock library (available with a Premier, Max, or Team plan).

Find holiday, office, classroom, home, travel images and more to get the perfect virtual background for any video.

Explore the stock library

Free stock images for virtual backgrounds

Access the video background remover today

Remove your background for free

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Our full video creation suite offers advanced screen& webcam recording, seamless video editing, unlimited hosting & robust content management.

Unlimited screen recording time

Interactive storyboard editor

Advanced script recording mode

Easy drag and drop video builder

Record computer or system audio

Blur any part of your video

Easy, integrated video editing

Change your webcam shape and size

Automated Speech-to-Text captions

Expanded stock music library

Hide your webcam or cursor

Automatically remove silences

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Background remover: Frequently asked questions

What is the best background remover?

The best video background remover is the background subtraction feature, located within our background remover tool. The background subtraction feature completely removes your webcam background, making it fully transparent. A transparent background allows your audience to focus on more of the information on your screen when you are recording both your webcam and screen together.
What is the difference between the background remover & virtual background feature?
How do I find the best virtual backgrounds for my videos?
The best virtual background for a webcam video may vary depending on the person, video topic, and audience. You can use virtual backgrounds to showcase your personal or company brand and to better connect with your audience. We’ve put together some ideas for the best virtual background to use for office and classroom settings, as well as some tips to consider when selecting a virtual background image:
- - Top 15 office virtual background images for your business videos
  - Top 15 classroom virtual background for teachers

What features are available with the background remover tool?
Our video background remover tool has a wide range of features for your webcam background as well, including:
- Background subtraction – Remove the background from your webcam completely to make it transparent.
- Blur background – Make your webcam background blurry for privacy and to avoid distractions from objects behind you.
- Virtual background – Replace your default webcam background with a stock image or file that you upload from your computer.
- Upload background file – Upload a new virtual background file from your computer to use instead of your default webcam background.
- Free stock images – Choose from a small selection of free stock images that you can use as your virtual background.
- Stock library images – Browse from thousands of images in our stock library to use as your virtual background (available for Premier, Max, and Team plans).
- Edge detection – Select how you would like the background remover tool to shape the edges between you and the background. You can choose between hard, medium, and soft edge detection, with hard edge detection fitting the background closest to you and soft edge detection having looser edges between you and the background.
- Mirror webcam – Flip your webcam left or right so it appears like you are facing the opposite direction in your webcam recording.
- Green screen – Select the feature “I have a green screen” if you would like to use a green screen along with the background remover feature.
Does the background remover tool require a green screen?

You do not need to have a green screen to use a virtual background image in your webcam recording. The video background remover has an AI (artificial intelligence) algorithm that will automatically detect you and your background, but using a green screen behind you can help it detect the background more easily.

A green screen can be useful if there are objects behind you that are a similar color as what you’re wearing, such as if you are wearing a white shirt and have a white wall behind you, or if you have brown hair and a brown window from right behind you of a similar color. Having a green screen behind you instead would help the background remover tool differentiate the background from you more clearly.
Can I change the background of a video?

The background remover tool allows you to change your webcam background in the free screen recorder before you start recording your video, or you can change your background after you’ve recorded using the free video editor. You can change the background multiple times throughout the recording using the video editor, allowing you to display different backgrounds that help emphasize your content at different points in the video.

Free video background remover

Look like a pro in your video recordings

Customize your webcam background

Choose from 3 types of background effects

Remove background

Blur background

Virtual background

Record from anywhere with a virtual background

Get creative with virtual backgrounds

Choose from thousands of stock images

Access the video background remover today

Upgrade for all you need in a webcam recorder and more

Background remover: Frequently asked questions

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