If you have the possibility to use a paid editor You will be able to enjoy all kinds of complementary tools that, in addition to removing the sound from your clips, will allow you to make all kinds of edits or add original sound effects and transitions from the application’s own library. Most of these programs have a free trial period, so you can familiarize yourself with the interface and decide the purchase with more confidence. The free apps They also offer interesting options and you will be able to carry out the video and audio editing you need. Some, not VLC case, for example, are less well known and offer poorer help support, but are equally valid for editing issues.
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These programs offer a professional technical support that will solve all our doubts and they tend to be easier to use. Most are complete suites that cover the entire editing process but allow us to remove the audio tracks from our videos.
Adobe Premiere Pro
This is the video editing tool par excellence for those who work under the Windows operating system. Developed by Adobe, Premiere Pro allows you to edit and modify clips and movies at will, adding all kinds of effects and transitions. To eliminate the sound you can do it in different ways through the timeline, from completely eliminating it to “mute” it.
Premiere Pro is available in a version of free trial for 30 days, once this period is over you will have to subscribe to one of the plans: individual (€ 24.19 per month) or all applications (€ 60.49 a month). It is available for Windows (Windows 10, version 2004 or later) and Mac Os (Catalina version 10.15 or higher) and requires 8 GB of RAM and another 8 GB of hard disk.
Final cut pro
If Premiere Pro is the quintessential Windows suite, Mac OS users use more Final cut pro for your audiovisual creations. We are talking about payment applications that have been designed for professionals.
Final Cut Pro has an interface similar to Adobe’s with a timeline on which we add the videos and we can unlink the audio tracks or directly delete them. You have a version of trial valid for 90 days, if you want to get the full version you will have to pay € 329.99 on the Mac App Store. To be able to use this application you must have macOS 10.15.6 or later, 4 GB of RAM and 3.8 GB of hard disk space.
A video editing suite that is gaining more and more followers for its ease of use. Although you can try the free version, which includes all the editing functionalities, all your exported files will incorporate a watermark, so this free version of Filmora it is interesting to test it, but not for the realization of projects.
The edition for Mac requires version 10.11 or higher, Intel i5 multicore processor of 2 GHz or higher, 8 GB of RAM and 10 GB of free hard disk space. If you use Windows You will need Windows 7 or higher, Intel i3 processor of 2 GHz or higher, 3 GB of RAM and 2 GB of hard disk.
Movavi
This editor enjoys a period of 7 day trial so that we can test it and decide whether to buy it or not. It is an editor with an interface similar to the rest that works with a timeline through which we can eliminate the audio from the files we want. To acquire Movavi we have three types of packs: Video Editor Plus 1 year license ($ 39.95), Video Editor Plus Lifetime License ($ 59.95) and Video Suite Lifetime License ($ 79.95).
This editing program is available for Windows and macOS. For the Redmond platform it is necessary to have Windows XP or higher, an Intel or AMD processor of 1.5 GHz or higher, 512 MB of RAM for Windows XP and Vista or 2 GB of RAM for Windows 7 or higher and 1.2 GB of disk space. Apple computers must include macOS 10.10 or higher, Intel 64-bit processor, 256 MB of RAM and 700 MB of disk space.
VideoPad
Developed by NCH Software, VideoPad is a complete tool for Edit. Obviously, it allows you to edit the audio tracks or even mute or delete them. In addition, it includes a free library of sound effects and the MixPad tool for creating music tracks.
It is available for Windows (XP or higher) and macOS (10.5 or higher) and we can purchase it with the quarterly suite for $ 5.50 / month, the Domestic Edition by $ 39.95 (which only allows editing of two tracks without external plugins) and the Master Edition by $ 69.95 without limits.
Vegas Movie Studio
This editing program developed by MAGIX Software belongs to a complete range of applications for video and audio editing. VEGAS Movie Studio 17 can be purchased in the simple version for € 49.99, VEGAS Movie Studio 17 Platinum by € 49.99 (includes Boris FX Continuum Stylize Unit and NewBlue Elements 3 Overlay for free) and VEGAS Movie Studio 17 Suite by € 79.99 (unlimited edition). All the programs in the suite have a 30-day trial period that you are sure of before paying to acquire this program.
VEGAS Movie Studio 17 is only available for the operating system of Microsoft and requires Windows 10 64-bit. Other requirements for this program are: 2 GHz 2-core processor, 1.5 GB of disk space and 16 GB of RAM.
HD Movie Maker Pro
It is a fast editing tool but it allows extract audio track of each multimedia file and edit it autonomously including external clips, background music and adjusts the volume of all the tracks that we can find in the Microsoft application online store.
This application, available only for Windows, requires Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher, ARM or ARM64 architecture, DirectX version 9.0 and 4 GB of RAM.
Boilsoft Audio Converter
Boil Software owns several editing applications developed by that company. Audio Converter It allows extract audio tracks of any clip in compatible format (3GP, AAC, MKV, DivX, FLAC, FLV, MP4, MPEG, WMV and more).
This program has a cost of $ 29.95 and is compatible with these versions of Windows: 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7 and later, DirectX 8.1 or later is also required.
Free
Free apps have the advantage of cost and that they are equally capable of performing the actions we seekIn fact, several of them have been developed in open source.
VLC Player
It is one of the most used multimedia players, designed in open source, it is capable of playing most formats and in very good quality. We will can remove audio from a file without the need to edit the clip directly, among other things because it is “only” a player, but we can export it to other formats eliminating the sound.
VLC Player is available for free for most platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. The Windows version works in versions XP SP3 and later, in macOS we will need version 10.7.5 or higher of the operating system and the version for Ubuntu is compatible with editions 18.04 and 16.04. This program is completely free.
VSCD Free Video Editor
This tool, part of the audio and video editing suite, offers the basic features for editing without having to pay anything. In case you want to purchase the paid version of VSCD Video Editor, the Pro edition, the price is € 20.24. In fact, once the file is open you will see that there are several ways to eliminate the sound.
This program is only available to Windows and requires the installation of XP SP3 version or higher, an Intel or AMD processor 1.5 GHz or higher, 1024 × 768 resolution, 1 GB of RAM, Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher and 300 MB of disk space.
iMovie
This is the native Apple application for video editing on your devices, therefore iMovie is free. You can install it both on the computer as on the iPhone and iPad. Requires macOS 10.15.6 or higher installed and occupies 2.4 GB of storage space.
In addition to the famous trailers with the templates that the application includes by default, you can also edit all kinds of clips using a multitude of effects and creating soundtracks with GarageBand and your own voice. It is only available to Apple devices mentioned.
Shotcut
Shotcut is an editor designed in Open Source and that it is free. Not because it is free, we should think that it has limited features since it is a fairly complete program that is available for Windows, Mac OS and GNU / Linux.
The version for windows is compatible with all computers running Windows 7 64-bit or higher, the version for macOS requires a 64-bit version of 10.12 or higher and users of Linux they will need Mint 19 64-bit, Ubuntu / POP! 18.04, Debian 10, Fedora 28, Manjaro 17.1, MX Linux 19 or elementary OS 5 or later versions.
Any Mute Video
This tool, available in the Microsoft app store, is specifically designed to remove the audio from the multimedia files you need. It is available only for the platform Microsoft and you need Windows 10 or higher. Other requirements are an ARM or ARM 64 processor, and 300 MB of available hard disk space.
It supports MP4, WMV and MOV formats and can directly remove sound track of any format. The files generated after editing will have MP4 format. It is a free application but it has advertising banners.
Photos
Photos is the application that natively replaces Windows Movie Maker. We can edit photos and videos, generate new projects and create albums to share. Once inside the clip that we want to edit, we will access the audio track to silence or eliminate it.
Photos is free and available on the microsoft store. Requires the Windows 10 version 17134.0 or later and ARM, x64, x86 architecture.
Blender
Blender is another of the very complete editors and developed in open source. It is completely useful for both private use and professional use. Through the timeline it is very easy to edit the audio track of each movie.
Blender is available for Windows (8.1 and 10), macOS (10.13 with Intel processor, 11.0 with Apple Silicon processor) and Linux. The system requirements are: 2 GHz dual-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 1280 × 768 resolution and graphics card with 1 GB of RAM and OpenGL 3.3.
Openshot
Another open source editor that has many cool features to edit our clips Of video. In fact, Openshot has a specific tool to remove the sound from a file for editing that displays waveforms on the timeline, which makes audio editing easier.
It is available for Linux, macOS and Windows, and the requirements are: 64-bit operating system, 4 GB of RAM and 500 MB of available disk space.