1Upload the MOV videos whose soundtrack you want gone.
2Confirm that you want the audio track dropped entirely rather than turned down to silence.
3Run it — the track is removed at the container level and the picture is copied through untouched, so it finishes in seconds.
4Download the silent MOV file, which is also smaller than what you started with.
Mute MOV FAQ
Does the container format matter?
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It does. MOV is QuickTime, Apple-native, and the usual home for ProRes and alpha-channel video that MP4 cannot carry. That governs how the tracks are stored and therefore how cleanly one can be dropped.
Anything specific to MOV worth knowing?
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Yes — MOV can carry ProRes and a real alpha channel, so a re-encode to an H.264 profile silently discards both. Relevant when the source has more than one audio track.
How does Mute MOV remove the sound?
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Concretely, the audio track is dropped from the container and the video stream is copied through untouched, so the operation is instant and the picture is bit-identical to the source rather than re-encoded. The result is the same picture with no audio track at all, rather than an audio track turned down to zero.
Is the video re-encoded when I mute it?
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No. Removing a track is a container operation, so the video stream is copied through bit-identically and the job finishes in seconds regardless of how long the clip is.
What happens to audio, subtitle and chapter tracks?
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They are carried across. Multi-track audio, embedded subtitle tracks and chapter markers survive wherever the target container can represent them — that is the main thing that separates a proper job from a naive re-encode that silently keeps only track one.
What can I upload to Mute MOV?
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MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG and MPG. The container and codec are probed before anything runs, so a mixed batch is handled correctly per file rather than assumed to be uniform.
Is there a file size limit on Mute MOV?
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Yes: free accounts process video up to 1 GiB per file, by far the most generous cap on the site; ffmpeg with x264, x265 and libvpx does the work, which is the same toolchain behind most desktop video software. Video is the one family where the cap is high enough that upload time, not the limit, is what you will actually notice.
Will Mute MOV lower the quality of my MOV videos?
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It depends on whether the job needs a re-encode. Operations that only touch the container or the timeline are done as a stream copy and the picture is bit-identical to the source. Anything that has to redraw frames goes through x264/x265 at a quality level you set, where CRF 23 is visually transparent on most footage.
Why would a modern-format site run Mute MOV?
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WEBP.to is built around the modern replacement for both of the old defaults: one format that does lossy, lossless, alpha and animation, and reliably lands smaller than the JPEG or PNG it came from. People arrive here having decided the old defaults are costing them bandwidth, and that decision immediately raises the rest: what size, what quality, what happens to the transparency. Mute MOV is on the same upload and the same account so those questions get answered in one place.
Once Mute MOV has run, what is worth doing next?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from WebP, PNG, JPG and AVIF, which is where you decide whether a smaller file is worth losing the older browsers. Doing it in that order matters: pick the pixels first and the container afterwards, because the container is the cheap decision and the pixels are the expensive one.
Do the sibling sites run something different?
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The engines are identical — same libraries, same workers, same caps. What is different is the opinion attached, and the opinion here rests on a property of the format this site is named after: the same .webp extension can hold a lossy VP8 frame, a lossless one, or an animation, so the sensible processing path is decided per file rather than per extension.
What happens to my file, and is an account required?
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No account, and nothing is retained: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, and nothing is inspected, listed or indexed. Accounts exist for history and batch size only.
