--- title: "How to remove an object or person from a video | Made" description: "Erase a person or an object from your video with Video Object Remover: add the clip, say what should disappear, and generate. A real example, what it can’t do, and tips." url: https://www.made.app/guides/remove-object-from-video --- [Made](https://www.made.app/) / [Guides](https://www.made.app/guides) / Video cleanup Video cleanup · 5 min read # How to remove an object or person from a video Open Video Object Remover, add your video and type what should disappear, like “the man walking behind her”. You get the same video back without it: what it covered is filled in, and your original sound stays. There’s no brush or mask, only your words. Clips can run from 4 seconds to 3 minutes. You sign in to generate, and the price shows on Generate. By Made · Updated November 12, 2026 · Examples and tool behavior checked against recorded generations and the current workflow [Open Video Object Remover](https://www.made.app/tools/video-object-remover) [See more removals](https://www.made.app/video-object-remover) **You add** One MP4 or MOV, 4 seconds to 3 minutes **You type** What should disappear, up to 300 characters **It removes** People, a whole crowd, or things like a suitcase, a bag or a sign **It can’t remove** Clothing, or the sound of what you remove **You get** The whole clip made again at 480p and upscaled 2×, with your original sound In this guide The workflow Real example Prompts How it’s priced Review the result Work with Claude Questions ## The workflow 1. **Add the video** Open Video Object Remover and tap Add the video to clean up. Choose an MP4 or MOV from 4 seconds to 3 minutes. A longer clip is cut to its first 3 minutes. Over 30 seconds, it’s made in parts, one after another, so it takes longer. A very narrow or very wide video can’t be used; crop it closer to 9:16 or 16:9. 2. **Say what should disappear** Under What should disappear?, point it out in a few words, the way you would to a friend. For example: “the man with the paper bag who walks across in front of her”, “all the tourists behind her” or “the suitcase by the door”. If there are two of a kind, say where it is or when it passes. You can name a person by what they wear, but clothing itself can’t be removed. 3. **Tap Generate** The button shows the price. If you aren’t signed in, you sign in first, and your video and words wait for you. The tool checks the price again before it starts and stops if it came out higher. The video goes to the top of Assets, usually in about 10 minutes, and you’re told when it’s ready. 4. **Check every frame where it was** Play the result at full speed, then pause where the removed person or thing passed. Look at the edges, at anyone it covered, at hands, and at anything it touched. Then listen: the sound is your original track, so any footsteps or voice from what you removed are still there. Recorded Made demonstration ## A customer walks through a café clip, and then he doesn’t This is a real Video Object Remover run from November 12, 2026. The clip is an 8-second phone video that Made generated. Sofia, a café owner who isn’t a real person, holds up a latte, and a customer walks right across in front of the lens. Only “the man with the paper bag who walks across in front of her” was typed. The request is exactly what the tool builds for that, sent through Made’s API from a script rather than clicked through the browser. He and his bag are gone from every frame he crossed. What he covered is rebuilt: her hands, the cup she lowers, the counter and the espresso machine. The framing, her moves and the café’s sound are unchanged. The whole frame was made again at 480p and upscaled 2×. It’s sharper than the original, and small things shift slightly, like how full a coffee jar looks. A tripod leg at the bottom of the frame stays, because it wasn’t named. It’s one run, not a measure of how often a removal works. Original clip Generated result Video Object Remover (Seedance 2.5 Edit, upscaled 2×) · Generated 2026-11-12 · [View the example record and price basis (JSON)](https://www.made.app/guides/remove-object-from-video/evidence.json) ## Prompts you can inspect and adapt Prompt recipe to adapt ### Point it out in a few words ``` the cyclist who rides past behind them from left to right ``` This goes under What should disappear?, and that’s all you type. Name who or what, then where it is or when it passes. Recorded generation prompt ### What the tool sent for this example ``` Made Video Object Remover: remove. Remove the man with the paper bag who walks across in front of her from @Video1. Erase it completely in every frame where it appears, including any part of it that overlaps, touches, holds or covers anything else, and its shadow and reflection. Fill the space it leaves with what is behind it, continuing the surroundings with the same light, perspective, texture and camera motion, as if the video had been filmed without it. Where it covered or touched someone or something that stays, rebuild that part naturally. Keep everything else in @Video1 exactly as it is: every remaining person's face, identity, expression, hair, clothes, pose, movement and timing, every other object, the background, the framing, the camera movement and the lighting. Add nothing new. Preserve the source shot duration, camera movement, timing, and all elements not explicitly selected for editing. ``` Only “the man with the paper bag who walks across in front of her” was typed. The tool wrote the rest: the words to erase it in every frame, fill in what it covered and keep everything else. ## How a removal is priced By the length of your clip, plus the 2× upscale of the result. The total appears on Generate before you run it. The edit is priced per second of your clip, rounded up to a whole second, and the upscale by the size and length of the result. What you type doesn’t change the price. Price source: [Public video-editor catalog](https://www.made.app/api/video-editor) · Checked 2026-11-12 Add your clip to see its exact price on Generate. Before the run starts, the tool checks the price again; if it came out higher than the button showed, it stops and asks you to try again instead of charging more. A run that fails is refunded. [See your price in the tool](https://www.made.app/tools/video-object-remover) [All model prices](https://www.made.app/price-sheet) ## What to review before you use the result | What you see | What to try | | --- | --- | | Something it held or touched is still there | Something a person is holding or sitting on is the hardest to take out, and may stay. Name it with them, as the example names “the man with the paper bag”, or on its own: “the man and the bag he carries”. | | You can still hear it | The result keeps your original sound, so footsteps or a voice from what you removed stay. Mute or replace that part of the sound in your editor. | | The tool won’t take your words | It can’t remove clothing. Name a person or an object to erase; describing someone by what they wear is fine, like “the man in the red jacket behind her”. | | Faces or small details look softer | The whole clip is made again at 480p and upscaled 2×, not just the spot you cleaned, so fine detail can soften. Use the cleaned clip only for the shot that needed it. | | Your clip is refused | Use an MP4 or MOV of at least 4 seconds. A very narrow or very wide video can’t be edited; crop it closer to 9:16 or 16:9. | ## Work with Claude and Made With the Made connector, Claude can run the same removal on a clip you attach: say what should disappear, and it shows you the price and runs it after you say yes, if your client lets you attach a video. Conversation starter ### Ask your assistant ``` Use Made to remove the man who walks across in front of me from my attached video. Erase him in every frame, fill in what he covered, and keep everything else, the camera and the original sound. Show me the price before you run it. ``` If your client can’t attach a video, use Video Object Remover with the same clip and the same words. [Connect Made to Claude or another assistant](https://www.made.app/mcp) ## Questions about this workflow **Can AI remove a person from a video?** Yes. Upload the clip to Video Object Remover and type who should go, like “the man walking behind her”. It erases them in every frame and fills in what they covered, keeping the camera move, the timing and your sound. **Can it remove objects, not just people?** Yes: a suitcase, a bag, a sign in the background. Say what it is and where it is. Something a person is holding or sitting on is the hardest to take out, and may stay. **Do I need to draw a mask?** No. There’s no brush or mask: you say what should disappear in words, up to 300 characters. **Does it remove sounds too?** No. The result keeps your clip’s original sound, so anything you can hear from what you removed stays in. **How long can my video be?** From 4 seconds to 3 minutes. A longer clip is cut to its first 3 minutes, and a clip over 30 seconds is made in parts, which takes longer. **Do I need to sign in?** Yes, to generate. You can add your video and type what should disappear first; if you sign in from Generate, the tool keeps them for you. **Can I do this on my phone?** Yes. On a phone, the controls open in a panel when the page loads. If you close it, tap Remove something from your video to open it again. ## Keep creating [Video editing How to add a scene to a video with AI](https://www.made.app/guides/add-scene-to-video) [Product videos How to replace a product in an existing video](https://www.made.app/guides/replace-product-in-video) [Fashion videos How to change the clothes in a video with AI](https://www.made.app/guides/change-clothes-in-video) [Open Video Object Remover](https://www.made.app/tools/video-object-remover) [All guides](https://www.made.app/guides) --- Markdown version of https://www.made.app/guides/remove-object-from-video. Every public Made page has one at its URL plus .md (https://www.made.app/guides/remove-object-from-video.md). 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