How to remove someone from a video.

To remove someone from a video, upload the clip to an AI video editor like Aisma and describe the person in one sentence, such as “remove the guy in the red jacket behind them.” Aisma takes them out of every frame and fills the gap from the scene. Masks in Premiere or After Effects, or CapCut’s brush, also work, with more hands-on time.

Choose your video

Paid editing · MP4 or MOV · 2–60 seconds · Review credits before generating.

Updated October 19, 2026

One sentence names who goes. No masks or tracking.
Framing, length and sound stay as you shot them.
The credit price shows before anything renders.

Before → AfterOriginal

Real Aisma edit

A stranger, edited out.

A real Aisma edit of a 10-second wedding clip, made from one request and no photos. Full Aisma edit plays the result from start to finish.

Example requestremove the guy in the red jacket behind them

What stays

The people you want to keep
The camera move, the timing and the light
Framing, length and the original audio

What changes

The person you describe, in every shot they appear in
Their spot, generated from the scene around it

What you bring

A clip you shot + one sentence naming the person

FOUR WAYS

Four ways to edit
someone out of a video.

Every method does two jobs: it hides the person in each frame, then fills the spot where they were with something believable. What differs is who does the work. With a mask you do it by hand; with Content-Aware Fill or CapCut you mark the person and the software fills the gap; with Aisma you describe them and get the finished clip back.

Choose by your footage. A tripod shot with a moment when the spot is empty is easy in almost any editor. A handheld clip with someone walking through it is where hand masking gets slow.

Four ways to remove a person from a video, compared
	Mask and clean plate	After Effects Content-Aware Fill	CapCut AI remove	Aisma
What you do	Cut a patch from a frame where the spot is empty and mask it over the person	Mask the person, track the mask, then generate a fill layer	Brush over the person, then click Remove	Write one sentence that names the person
Where the fill comes from	Real footage from another moment of the same clip	Pixels from nearby frames, plus any reference frame you paint in Photoshop	The pixels around the brushed area	Generated from the scene around them, frame by frame
If the camera moves	The patch has to follow every move	Adobe recommends the Object fill method for it	Check the brushed area as the shot moves	The edit keeps your camera move
What you need	Any editor with masks, such as Adobe Premiere	After Effects, and Photoshop for reference frames	CapCut for desktop	A browser or the Aisma app, and credits

We checked each method against its maker’s own instructions on October 19, 2026. Menus move between versions, so follow the one you have installed.

METHOD 1 · AISMA

Remove someone with Aisma
in three steps.

Upload your clip
MP4 or MOV, 2–60 seconds, up to 500 MB. Shorter clips cost less, so trim to the moment you need first.
Describe the person
Name them by clothing and position, like “the man in the red jacket behind the couple,” and say who stays.
Check the price, then generate
Pick 720p or 1080p and read the credit price on the Generate button. The edit is saved to your private Library when it’s done.

Try it on your video

Try this request
on your video.

This is the prompt we sent for the wedding clip at the top, word for word. Each of its three sentences has one job: point at one person, say what belongs in the gap, and list what must not move.

“The man in the red jacket walking behind the couple” rules out everyone else, even though he walks up the path during the clip. Naming the paved passage and the garden tells Aisma what kind of ground to continue.

We ran it once at 1080p and kept that result. At today’s rate the 10-second shot costs 160 credits at 1080p or 80 at 720p.

Try it on your video

The brief we sent, word for word

Remove the man in the red jacket walking behind the couple. Reconstruct the paved passage and garden behind him. Preserve the couple, their walk, the arch, flowers, camera movement and lighting.

10 seconds · 1080p · no photos · first run kept

METHOD 2 · ANY EDITOR WITH MASKS

Cover them with
a clean plate.

The classic manual fix needs two things: a camera that holds still, and a moment in the clip when the spot is empty. Take a still of that empty frame, place it on a track above your clip, and mask it so it covers the person and nothing else.

In Adobe Premiere, draw the mask with the pen or shape tools in Effect Controls, then use the mask tracking buttons to follow the person through the clip, fixing any frame where the mask drifts.

Because the patch is real footage, it holds up well while the light stays constant. It gets hard when the camera moves, when the person passes in front of someone you keep, or when their shadow moves with them.

The steps:

Find a frame where the spot is clear and export it as a still
Stack the still above your clip
Mask it to the area around the person, with a soft edge
Track or keyframe the mask as they move
Play it back full size and fix any frame that slips

METHOD 3 · AFTER EFFECTS

Content-Aware Fill
for moving shots.

After Effects has a Content-Aware Fill panel built for this, and Adobe lists people among the things it removes, along with microphones and poles. Draw a mask around the person, set it to Subtract, track it, then open Window > Content-Aware Fill and generate a fill layer.

For a moving camera, Adobe recommends the Object fill method. If the background is busy, create a reference frame: After Effects opens one frame in Photoshop, you paint it clean, and the fill copies that frame through the shot.

It handles camera moves that a clean plate can’t, and it asks the most of you: After Effects, often Photoshop, careful masks and a frame-by-frame review.

METHOD 4 · CAPCUT

Brush the person out
in CapCut.

CapCut’s desktop editor has an AI remove tool. Following CapCut’s own steps, select the clip, go to Video > Basic > AI remove in the panel on the right, brush over the person, correct the selection with Erase, then click Remove.

It’s handy when you already cut your videos in CapCut. Play the result slowly where the person was, especially if they moved a lot or passed close to someone you kept.

WRITING THE REQUEST

Point to the person
like you would to a friend.

Aisma works from your words, so describe what you see rather than how to cut it out. Three details do most of the work: what they’re wearing, where they are in the frame and what they’re doing.

If two people could match, add whatever sets them apart, and say who stays. If the person is in the clip for only a few seconds, add the time, such as “from 0:03 to 0:06”; outside it, the clip plays as filmed.

BEFORE YOU POST

Check the spot
where they stood.

Unless a clean plate supplies it, the ground behind the person was never filmed, so whatever fills it is invented. In our wedding edit, the stone path now runs clear to the planters and lavender where the stranger stood, and the bride and groom walk on as filmed.

Watch the result full screen and look at the edges of that area as the camera moves, at anything the person carried or touched, and at the people you kept, especially hands and faces nearby. If one part needs another pass, open Edit a clip in Aisma and describe what’s left; that part’s price shows before it runs.

The sound doesn’t change. Removing someone from the picture leaves the audio as recorded, so if they were talking, you’ll still hear them.

REQUESTS TO BORROW

Wording for clips
you already have.

Written the way the wedding request was, for scenes people film every week. None of these were rendered for this page; change the details to fit your footage.

Etsy studio clip
Remove the person walking past the window behind my shelf. Keep me and the candles.
Realtor walk-through
Remove the painter on the ladder in the hallway. Keep the hallway and the camera move.
Youth soccer game
Remove the parent in the blue jacket who walks along the sideline at 0:05. Keep the players.
Wedding toast
Remove the guest checking his phone behind the bride. Keep the bride and the head table.
Thanksgiving video
Remove the man in the green sweater at the far end of the table. Keep everyone else.
Travel vlog
Remove the tour group crossing the plaza behind me. Keep me and the fountain.

WHAT IT COSTS

What a removal costs,
before you commit.

Removing someone is priced like every other edit: 8 credits for each second of video at 720p, 16 at 1080p.
The wedding clip is a single 10-second shot: 80 credits at 720p, 160 at 1080p.
The Generate button shows the exact number first. Aisma reserves it and returns what isn’t used, including the credits for a part that fails or has nothing to remove.
Fast-cut clips come out slightly higher, since every shot is billed in whole seconds.

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A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS

Removing people,
answered.

Can I remove someone from a video without After Effects?

Yes. With Aisma you describe the person and get the finished clip back, with no masks or tracking. CapCut’s AI remove and a masked clean plate in most editors are the other routes without After Effects.

What kind of clips get the best results?

The easiest ones keep the person clear of everyone you want to keep, with simple ground behind them, like a path, a lawn or a beach. In our wedding clip, the stranger stays on the open path behind the couple and never crosses in front of them. If someone walks across a face, look at those frames closely before you post.

Can I remove a whole group of people?

Yes. Ask for the group in one request, like “remove all the people behind me on the beach,” or name each person. Keep that request to removals: mixing other changes into it makes the result less predictable.

What if part of the person is still there?

Use Edit a clip on the finished result: choose the part where something is left and describe it, for example “his shoulder still shows next to the arch.” Only that part is redone, and you see its price before it runs.

Does Aisma bring back what was really behind them?

No. That area was never filmed, so Aisma generates it from the surroundings, frame by frame. It reads as a continuation of the scene, not a record of what was there.

Can I do this on my phone?

Yes. Aisma works in the browser at aisma.ai, Safari on iPhone included, and in the apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. Sign in on each device to keep one Library and one credit balance.

Whose videos can I edit this way?

Footage you shot or have permission to edit. Clearing a stranger out of your own wedding or vacation clip is exactly the point. Edits meant to fake evidence or deceive people aren’t something Aisma offers.

How long can the video be?

Up to a minute: Aisma takes clips of 2 to 60 seconds, as MP4 or MOV files of up to 500 MB, in any orientation. Split a longer recording into parts of a minute or less and edit each one.

Are these real results?

Yes. The wedding clip at the top is a real Aisma edit of the original shown with it, made from the brief printed on this page. Before → After views show the original and the edit at the same moment of the clip, never cropped, sped up or retouched. Your result depends on your clip and request.