Black and White Video

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Click to upload or drag and drop

Video files only (Max 10MB)

ℹ️ How it works:
  • Upload your video file
  • We convert it to black and white
  • Download the grayscale video

Make a Video Black and White Online for Free

Upload a clip and every frame comes back in black and white. There is nothing to set — the colour is removed, the motion is unchanged, and the sound is carried across untouched. Taking the colour out changes what a viewer notices: shape, light, contrast and expression come forward once there is no colour competing for attention. No sign-up and no watermarks.

How to Make a Video Black and White

  1. Click the upload area above or drag and drop your video (up to 10 MB).
  2. The tool removes the color from every frame.
  3. Download your black-and-white video.

Key Features

  • One click – there are no settings, because there is nothing to decide
  • Audio untouched – the soundtrack is copied across rather than re-encoded
  • Whole video – every frame is converted, start to finish
  • Full desaturation – a true grayscale conversion, not a partial colour wash

What Black and White Does, and What It Does Not

This removes colour. That is the whole operation, and it is worth being clear about what follows from it.

What it does: it takes away the strongest thing competing for a viewer's attention. Without colour, the eye goes to contrast, shape and movement instead — which is why black and white suits a portrait, a close-up or a documentary moment. It also makes mismatched footage sit together, since two clips shot under different lighting stop clashing once neither has a colour cast.

What it does not do: it will not make modern footage look like old film. Removing colour is only one part of that; the rest is grain, a warm tone, softer contrast and the wear that comes from age. A sharp, clean 4K clip in black and white still reads as a sharp, clean modern clip. If that is what you are after, this gets you part of the way and no further.

When You Might Need This

  • Removing distracting colour so the subject carries the shot
  • Setting a serious or sombre mood for an interview or a memorial piece
  • Making clips shot under different lighting match, once no colour cast is visible
  • Hiding a bad white balance that would be hard to correct properly
  • A consistent monochrome style across a whole set of footage
  • Emphasising texture, shadow and shape rather than colour
  • A background clip that should not compete with colourful text over it
  • Playing a clip where colour adds nothing, such as a screen recording of plain text

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload it and the conversion runs on its own — there is nothing to choose. Every frame is desaturated to grayscale and you download the result. It takes one pass, so even a long clip is done quickly, and the soundtrack comes across exactly as it was.

No, and it is worth saying plainly. Removing colour is one ingredient of an old-film look, but only one. The rest is grain, a warm or faded tone, softer contrast and the marks that age leaves on real film — none of which this adds. A sharp modern clip converted to black and white still looks like a sharp modern clip, just without colour. For genuinely aged footage you would need a tool that adds those textures, which this is not.

No — it is all or nothing. The conversion takes the saturation to zero, giving a true grayscale image rather than a partial wash where some colour survives. If you wanted a muted look with a little colour left, that would need a different kind of adjustment than this tool offers.

Because colour is usually what gives away that footage came from different places. One clip shot under daylight and another under indoor bulbs will have visibly different casts — one bluish, one orange — and matching them properly takes careful correction. Convert both to black and white and the mismatch disappears, because the thing that differed is no longer there. It is a blunt fix, but an effective one.

Any common format works — MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WEBM and the rest. The picture is re-encoded, since every frame has to be written again, which costs a small amount of quality once, as any single conversion does. The audio is copied rather than re-encoded, so the sound is untouched.

Yes. Only the picture is changed to grayscale — the original audio is kept exactly as it was.

No — converting to grayscale discards the color information, so keep your original file if you might want the color version again.

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