About CutoutVideo

CutoutVideo is a dedicated, single-purpose web utility engineered to remove backgrounds from video clips and images. We focus on one fundamental engineering problem: delivering production-grade, temporally consistent foreground separation with true alpha transparency, completely free from subscription lock-ins.

Our Mission: Single-Purpose Utility Without Bloat

The modern creative software ecosystem has become increasingly centralized into heavy, all-in-one design suites. When popular single-purpose tools are acquired by larger conglomerates, they are frequently absorbed into massive subscription editors, stripped of open export formats, and hidden behind recurring paywalls.

Our mission is the exact opposite. We believe that professional video editors, content creators, live streamers, and digital artists need standalone, lightning-fast utilities that do one job exceptionally well. CutoutVideo does not try to be a video editor, a social media scheduler, or a graphic design studio. We take an input video, isolate the moving foreground subject, and give you clean, ready-to-composite files in seconds.

The Story Behind CutoutVideo

For years, Unscreen (developed by Kaleido) was the gold standard for quick video background removal. When Canva acquired Kaleido and subsequently announced the sunset of Unscreen in late 2025 (followed by the scheduled retirement of remove.bg in late 2026), thousands of video editors were left stranded.

Canva's integrated background remover serves a different audience: it is designed for assembling graphics inside Canva's proprietary canvas, exporting flattened MP4 files without transparency. Creators working in professional Non-Linear Editors (NLEs) like Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, CapCut, and OBS Studio were left with no straightforward way to obtain transparent video assets without complex rotoscoping or green screen studios. CutoutVideo was built from the ground up to fill this exact void.

Our Technology: Robust Temporal Video Matting (RVM)

Traditional background removers designed for still photos process videos frame-by-frame as isolated images. This naive approach results in severe visual flaws: jittering outlines, edge flickering, and distracting temporal artifacts where boundaries fluctuate wildly from one frame to the next.

CutoutVideo utilizes advanced Robust Video Matting (RVM) neural networks powered by recurrent architectures. Our models analyze temporal coherence across adjacent frames, tracking human gestures, hair strands, fabric motion, and camera movements continuously. This temporal memory ensures that edge transitions remain smooth, solid, and visually stable across the entire duration of the clip.

Why We Champion Open Standards (VP9 Alpha WebM)

Standard MP4 video containers with H.264 or H.265 compression are technically incapable of carrying an alpha transparency channel. Many online services hide this limitation by burning the cutout against an arbitrary background or forcing you to accept solid black backgrounds.

CutoutVideo champions modern open web standards. We encode transparent output using the WebM container with Google's VP9 codec, embedding a full 8-bit alpha plane in the BlockAdditional bitstream. This produces lightweight, hardware-accelerated video clips with true transparency that play natively in modern web browsers and drop seamlessly into professional video editing software. For legacy workflows, we simultaneously generate a high-contrast chroma green MP4 that can be keyed out instantly with zero render penalty.

Our Ethical Commitments to Creators

• 24-Hour Cryptographic Deletion: Privacy is not an afterthought. Every uploaded clip, intermediate processing artifact, and generated output is stored on encrypted cloud storage and automatically, permanently deleted within 24 hours.
• Zero Model Training on User Data: We strictly never inspect, catalog, or use your uploaded video or image assets to train or fine-tune artificial intelligence models. Your media belongs solely to you.
• Transparent, Non-Expiring Pricing: We reject predatory monthly recurring subscriptions. We offer a permanent free tier for short clips, and our paid credit packs are one-time purchases whose credits never expire.
• Commercial Freedom: You retain 100% full commercial exploitation rights to every output generated on our platform.

Infrastructure and Engineering

CutoutVideo is deployed globally across Cloudflare's edge network, ensuring sub-second response times, TLS 1.3 transit encryption, and robust DDoS mitigation worldwide. Our high-throughput GPU inference clusters handle complex video matting pipelines with parallel job scheduling, providing fast turnarounds regardless of user geography.

Have questions, partnership inquiries, or technical feedback? Visit our Contact page or email us directly at [email protected].