Subtitle Remover - How to Remove Subtitles from MKV, AVI, MP4 on Mac and Windows?

A Step by Step Guide on How to Remove Subtitle from MKV, AVI, MP4, etc without Hassle

Aug 13, 2014, Posted by Andrew Smith

Overview

As we all know, video formats, such as MKV, MP4 and AVI, can contain several subtitle streams in different formats or languages in one file. Technically, subtitles are divided into two types: hard subtitle and soft subtitle in video files. Hard subtitle is a part of the video images, and you cannot disable or hide it when playing the video file. Soft subtitle is an independent stream, and you can turn on or turn off it when playing.

The following article includes three parts:

Part One: Check if the Subtitle is Soft Subtitle or not
Part Two: How to Remove Soft Subtitle from MKV, AVI and MP4?
Part Three: How to Remove Hardcoded Subtitle from MKV, MP4 and AVI?

Part One: Check if the Subtitle is Soft Subtitle or not

Free download and install Faasoft Subtitle Remover, and then follow the guide to remove subtitles from MKV, remove subtitles from AVI, and remove subtitles from MP4. Here we will take removing subtitles from MKV as example.

Step 1 Load MKV to Subtitle Remover
Just drag and drop MKV file to Faasoft Subtitle Remover to load your MKV files to the program.

Step 2 Check if the subtitle is soft one or not
After you add MKV file to the program, click the "Subtitle Setting" drop-down button of the video file to see if it has any soft subtitle track in the MKV file:

  • If it has a subtitle track like chi and eng, that means the source MKV file contains soft subtitle which can be removed directly.
  • If it does not have any subtitle track and only has "None" and "Edit Subtitle" option from the the drop-down button, that means the subtitles are hard ones. So far, it's impossible to remove the subtitles unless you crop them out.

Part Two: How to Remove Soft Subtitle from MKV, AVI and MP4?

To remove soft subtitle from MKV, AVI and MP4, you need a professional Subtitle Remover - Faasoft Subtitle Remover, which performs as an all-in-one MKV Subtitle Remover, AVI Subtitle Remover and MP4 Subtitle Remover, can easily remove subtitles from MKV, remove subtitles from AVI, and remove subtitles from MP4 on Mac and Windows.

What's more, the powerful Faasoft Subtitle Remover acts as Subtitle Extractor as well, which can extract subtitle from MKV, MP4, AVI, TS, etc and save the extracted subtitle into SRT format.

Better still, the ideal Faasoft Subtitle Remover also has the feature of adding and editing subtitles. The subtitles include adding SRT, SSA/ASS, IDX/SUB Subtitles to MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV and so on.

Steps on How to Remove Soft Subtitles from MKV, AVI and MP4

Step 1 Select subtitle you want to remove
Select "None" from the drop-down button of "Subtitle Setting" to remove all soft subtitles or select one of them to remove all others.

Step 2 Set output format
Click "Profile" drop-down button of the program to set the output format. There are many formats to choose from "General Video", "HD Video" and device-relevant category.

Step 3 Start removing subtitles from MKV
Click "Convert" button to start and finish removing subtitles from MKV.

Tips: this part also applies to remove subtitle from AVI and remove subtitle from MP4.

Part Three: How to Remove Hardcoded Subtitle from MKV, MP4 and AVI?

Click "Crop" button of the program and a "Video Edit" window will pop up. There you can remove subtitles from MKV by means of "Crop".

Method 1: Set the crop values

You just need to enter each value to "Top", "Bottom", "Left" and "Right" and the crop frame will move accordingly.

Method 2: Adjust the crop frame

The crop frame is the dotted line around the video, which has eight small adjustment boxes and you can crop the movie video from eight different positions. In order to crop the video, you just need to move your mouse cursor to an adjustment box and drag the crop frame to a position you desire.

Note: Before cropping your video, make sure the cropped part will not affect the entire picture since the cropped part will be lost forever.