Remove Subtitles from a Video for Smooth Viewing Experiences

Home >
Learn >
Video Editing Tips >
Remove Subtitles from a Video for Smooth Viewing Experiences

Last Updated: 2024. 03. 26

Summary

This is a blog post emphasizing ways to remove different kinds of subtitles from any video while remaining the best quality. Follow us to delete tedious video captions for good!

While you are watching a video, the subtitles are always on the bottom, transcribing or translating the dialogue or narration to help viewers understand better. Yet, subtitles are sometimes quite annoying because they can be distracting, especially if they are in the wrong language.

If you are working hard to find a proper way to remove subtitles from a video, here are 3 ways to delete video captions without reducing video quality.

Those Videos Can Be Yours! Customize for Free Now.

Preview

Memorial Video

Use This Template

Preview

Family Slideshow

Use This Template

Preview

Online Course Promotion

Use This Template

Caption 101: Softcoded Caption VS Hardcoded Caption

How to Remove Softcoded Subtitles from a Video

How to Remove Hardcoded Subtitles via Cropping

How to Remove Hardcoded Subtitles from a Video without Cropping

Part 1. Caption 101: Softcoded Caption VS Hardcoded Caption

There are two types of caption, the softcoded caption and the hardcoded caption. Different types of video mean different ways to remove them from a video.

Softcoded Caption: A softcoded caption is a separable part of a video. It can be turned on and off while playing on any video player. Softcoded captions are frequently used on videos that need to be translated. The formats include SRT, VTT, TTML, and more.

Hardcoded Caption: Hardcoded caption means subtitles embedded in videos. It can’t be turned on or off while playing. The only way to delete hardcoded captions is by editing the videos.

Part 2. How to Remove Softcoded Subtitles from a Video

As mentioned in the previous part, if your video has softcoded subtitles, you will have the option to disable them. Next up, we will use VLC as an example to show you how to remove softcoded subtitles from a video. The steps in other video players should be similar.

Step 1

Download VLC to your computer and then launch it. Drag and drop your video to VLC and let it play.

Step 2

Right-click on the video, a menu would pop up. Go to Subtitle > Sub Track. Click on Disable. Now, the softcoded subtitle is gone. You can always bring the subtitles back.

Remove Softcoded Video Subtitle

Part 3. How to Remove Hardcoded Subtitles via Cropping

The hardcoded subtitles is part of a video. To get rid of the subtitle, you need to remove parts of a video too. It may sound sad, but cropping doesn’t harm the video quality. Follow the steps to crop out the subtitles in video.

Step 1

Go to FlexClip’s editing panel.

Click on the Remove Subtitle button below to enter FlexClip’s video editing page. By the way, FlexClip also provides lots of video resources and video templates for you to try out. Click on the View Templates button to browse.

Remove Subtitle

View Templates

Step 2

Upload your video to the timeline.

Upload your video to the timeline. Go to the Media section, click on Local Folder button to upload a video from your computer. You can also upload a video from your phone or cloud services.

Next up, click on Add as Scene to add your video to the timeline. Your video will appear on the timeline and the preview window as well.

Add Video to the Timeline

Step 3

Crop video.

Click the Zoom option saying 100% above the preview window. Drag the slider to zoom in until the subtitle is gone.

Crop Out Video

Step 4

Export & share.

Now, you already have a clean video without any subtitles. Download your video to your computer desktop. You can also one-click share to social media or save to the cloud services.

Before & After Example

FlexClip Removing Video Subtitles via Cropping

Part 4. How to Remove Hardcoded Subtitles from a Video without Cropping

If you don’t feel like cropping your video, then the last method is blurring the subtitles. Besides cropping videos, FlexClip has built-in natural mosaic elements you can hide anything on your video. Let’s see how to remove subtitles from a video with mosaic.

Step 1

Again, we need to go to FlexClip’s editing page by clicking the Remove Subtitle button.

Remove Subtitle

View Templates

Step 2

After successfully adding your video to the timeline. Go to Elements, search for Mosaic. Pick one mosaic that fits your video perfectly. Drag it to where the subtitle is and make some adjustments.

Add Mosaic to Video

Note

1. After zooming in, you can drag the video in the preview window to make sure no important details are cropped out.

2. If you decide to add mosaic, please do pick a mosaic that matches the color theme of the video.

3. If necessary, you can edit your video like trimming, adding filters, adding AI narration, changing video speed with FlexClip. Check the video below to get more information.

The Bottom Line

By following the steps below, you can easily remove subtitles from any video with FlexClip, the best free online video maker. Play around and enjoy your videos without the distraction of subtitles. By the way, FlexClip is an AI-powered video editing tool. Utilize AI text-to-video, AI text-to-image, to bring your video to the next level.

Render the FlexClip's AI Tools

Create a Video

View Templates