The workflow
Upload your video
Open Video Background Remover and tap Source video (on a phone, Upload). Choose an MP4, MOV or WebM up to 150 MB and 60 seconds. No green screen or mask is needed: the model finds the person in an ordinary clip. Someone who stands apart from the background, with some space around them, cuts out best. Use video of yourself or of someone who agreed.
Choose the background
Once the video is in, Background starts at Transparent. You can pick a solid color instead: Black, White, Gray, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Cyan, Magenta or Orange. Keep original audio is on, so the clip keeps its sound. Zoom to fit the subject is off; turn it on to crop in on the person.
Generate and download the WebM
Tap Generate; the button shows the price, which follows your clip’s length. If you aren’t signed in, you sign in now and your video and settings wait for you. The result appears under Generations; tap Download to save it. It’s a WebM file, see-through where the background was if you kept Transparent.
Put it on a new background
In your editor, put the new background on the lower track and the WebM above it. If the editor shows the original room instead, it isn’t reading the WebM’s transparency. Convert the file to ProRes 4444 with the command below, or generate again with Green and use the editor’s chroma key (green-screen) effect.
Recorded Made demonstration
A phone selfie by a sunny window, cut out
This is a real run from November 12, 2026. Maya is one of Lip Sync Studio’s preset faces, made by Made, not a real person, and her 6-second selfie clip, talking by a sunny window with a mug in her hand, was made by Made too. It ran with the tool’s defaults: Transparent, Keep original audio on, Zoom to fit the subject off. The request is the tool’s own, sent through Made’s API from a script rather than tapped through the browser. The download is a WebM with VP9 video, an alpha channel (the layer that marks what’s see-through) and her original voice. The window, plants and walls are gone. Her hair, hand and mug stay, with a soft, clean edge on the hair, though the finest strands are smoothed into it. The gray armchair arm that touches her stays in the cutout. The page shows the result over a checkerboard, because an MP4 can’t be see-through. Chrome played the WebM see-through; Safari’s engine played it with the original room, which the file keeps under the see-through areas. It’s one run, not a measure of how every clip cuts out.
Bria Video Background Removal 3.0 · Generated · View the example record and price basis (JSON)
Prompts you can inspect and adapt
Recorded settings
What the tool sent for this run
background_color: Transparent
preserve_audio: true
auto_zoom: falseVideo Background Remover takes no prompt. These are the three settings Made sent to Bria Video Background Removal 3.0 for this run: Background Transparent, Keep original audio on and Zoom to fit the subject off, the tool’s defaults.
Command to adapt
Convert it for an editor that ignores the transparency
ffmpeg -c:v libvpx-vp9 -i your-video.webm -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 4444 -pix_fmt yuva444p10le -c:a pcm_s16le your-video.movffmpeg is a command-line video tool. The libvpx-vp9 part goes before -i because ffmpeg’s own VP9 decoder drops the transparency. ProRes 4444 keeps it, but the files are large: this 6-second clip came to 163 MB.
How background removal is priced
By the length of your clip, up to 60 seconds. The background and the two options don’t change it. The total appears on Generate before you run it.
The price follows your clip’s exact length, not rounded up to whole seconds, so a clip twice as long costs about twice as much. Transparent and the solid colors cost the same.
Price source: Public creative-tools catalog · Checked
Generate shows a price from your clip’s length as soon as it’s in, and the exact quote once it has uploaded. If the price changes before the run starts, the tool stops and shows the new one. Failed runs are refunded.
What to review before you use the result
| What you see | What to try |
|---|---|
| The background still shows in Safari or on an iPhone | Safari doesn’t show WebM transparency, and the file keeps the original room under its see-through parts, so it plays as filmed there. Check it in Chrome; for your edit, use an editor that reads WebM transparency, convert it to ProRes 4444, or pick Green. |
| Your editor shows the original background | It isn’t reading the WebM’s transparency. Convert the file to ProRes 4444 with the command above, or generate again with Green and use your editor’s chroma key (green-screen) effect. |
| Something behind the person stays | Things that touch the person can stay with them, like the armchair arm in the example. Film with some space around you, or mask the leftover out in your editor. |
| Fine hair looks smoothed | The finest loose strands blend into a soft outline, as in the example. Check the edges at full size, over the background you’ll use, before you post. |
| Your video is refused | Use an MP4, MOV or WebM up to 150 MB and 60 seconds. Trim a longer video and run it in parts. |
Work with Claude and Made
Through the Made connector, Claude can run the same model, Bria Video Background Removal, on a clip you upload: background_color picks Transparent or a color, preserve_audio keeps the sound, and auto_zoom crops in on the person. It quotes the price from the clip’s length before running.
Conversation starter
Ask your assistant
Use Made to remove the background from my attached video with Bria Video Background Removal. Keep it transparent and keep the original audio, with no zoom. Show me the price first, then give me the WebM.You get the same kind of WebM as the tool gives. If your client can’t upload a video, use Video Background Remover with the same clip.
Questions about this workflow
Do I need a green screen?
No. The model finds the person in an ordinary clip, with no mask to draw. Someone who stands apart from the background, with some space around them, cuts out best.
What file do I get?
A WebM with VP9 video and your clip’s sound. With Transparent, it carries an alpha channel, the layer that marks what’s see-through. With a color, it’s a regular WebM with that color behind the person.
Where does the transparency show?
In Chrome, and in editors that read WebM transparency. Safari, on a Mac or iPhone, doesn’t show it: the file keeps the original room under the see-through parts, so the clip plays there as filmed.
Can I put a picture or another video behind it?
Yes, in your editor: the new background goes on the lower track and the WebM above it. The tool itself offers Transparent or 10 solid colors, not a picture or video background.
Do I need to sign in?
Yes, to generate. You can add the video and choose the settings first; when you tap Generate and sign in, they wait for you.