Background Removal
Removes backgrounds to create professional-looking results, face cams, and other effects.
Video background removal · No greenscreen needed
AI Background Remover for Premiere Pro and After Effects
The AI Background Remover is an extension for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects that uses artificial intelligence to automatically create masks and remove video backgrounds.
New GPU-accelerated extension for Premiere 25.6.5+. Legacy version for older Premiere & After Effects.
Original footageBackground replaced- Local GPU acceleration
- People, animals & objects
- Soft hair & fur edges
- Stay in your Premiere timeline
Your footage. More possibilities.
A clean cutout.
A whole new scene.
With this extension, you can create professional-looking masks and bokeh effects with ease. Whether you’re working on social media, corporate videos, or gaming content, the plugin is designed to handle a wide range of backgrounds.
The new Premiere extension adds GPU acceleration and a choice of models for people and general foregrounds. Isolate a speaker, soften a busy setting, or put your subject somewhere completely different.
What’s new in the Premiere extensionBuilt for editing
Key Features
Background Blurring
Blurs backgrounds to create professional-looking bokeh effects or simply hide the video background.
Edge Smoothing
This feature ensures soft, natural-looking edges, even for high-resolution footage.
Temporal Smoothing
Analyzes frames to generate stable masks, reducing jittery edges while maintaining high analysis speed.
High Performance
Optimized for fast processing, the new extension uses local GPU acceleration with CPU fallback.
Customizable Settings
Many parameters can be adjusted, like mask expansion, sensitivity, background blur strength, and even the algorithms used to suit your specific needs.
Advanced Color Grading
Allows separate color grading for subjects and backgrounds, enabling precise control over your video’s look. Use the generated matte with Premiere’s effects and color tools.
Special Effects
Apply effects like making the background black and white while keeping the subject in color for a dramatic look. Use your isolated subject with the tools already in Premiere.
Fine edges. Natural detail.
Keep the hair.
Keep the character.
Hair, soft outlines and animal fur need more than a hard cutout. Soft masks preserve partial transparency, helping fine edges blend into their new surroundings.
Choose a people model for portraits. Switch to General foreground for animals and objects. Refine the edge without smoothing away the detail that makes your subject look natural.
A guide to hair and fur matting
Original
ForegroundBeyond portraits
People are just the start.
Match the model to the subject, from a facecam to a product film.
Speakers & portraits
Portrait and People help keep human subjects separated across video frames. Start with Portrait for close-ups or People for wider shots.
Isolate a personPets & fine fur
Use General foreground for animals. Soft masks help preserve partially transparent edges around fur.
Refine hair & furProducts & buildings
Try General foreground on products, objects and building silhouettes. Separation depends on how clearly the subject stands out.
Explore foreground modelsGeneral foreground detects prominent subjects; it does not select a specific object or class.
A little less distraction
Bring the focus
back to your subject.
Blurs backgrounds to create professional-looking bokeh effects or simply hide the video background. Choose Gaussian, Camera or Directional blur for the look that suits your footage.
Adjust applied blur and feather controls in Premiere without running the full analysis again. Use a transparent result to build a new scene, or a matte for your own effects.
Explore output modes
On your machine. In your workflow.
Powered by your GPU.
Your footage stays local.
Analyze footage on your own computer with GPU acceleration. Auto selects a suitable backend and can fall back to CPU. No cloud upload before you can get to work.
How local GPU processing works3Model choices
LocalAI processing
AutoGPU with CPU fallback
From clip to composite
How It Works
Install & open
Download and install from Adobe Exchange. Open the extension in your Premiere workspace.
Select your footage
Import your footage and select one video clip on the active timeline.
Choose & preview
Choose the subject, quality and output. Preview the first frame to inspect the mask.
Apply & refine
Click Apply Effect. Review in motion, then fine-tune the mask, feathering and background.
These steps describe the new Premiere extension. Older Premiere and After Effects workflows use the legacy extension.
For the videos you make
Use Cases
Video Tutorials
Create professional-looking tutorials by using a facecam or blurring or replacing backgrounds.
Corporate Videos
Enhance corporate presentations by isolating speakers from distracting backgrounds.
Social Media Content
Produce eye-catching social media videos with clean, polished backgrounds.
Gameplay Videos
Remove backgrounds and add facecams to your gameplay videos.
Benefits
Time-Saving
Reduces the time spent on manual masking and background removal.
Professional Results
Produces high-quality, clean video outputs suitable for professional use, hobbyists, and social media creators.
Ease of Use
Featuring a user-friendly interface and customizable settings, it is suitable for both beginners and advanced users.
Versatility
Compatible with various video types, including close-up shots, high-resolution footage, and complex backgrounds.
Choose your version
The new extension is here.
Keep your existing workflow, or move to the new GPU-accelerated Premiere extension.
Vakago AI Background Remover
Adobe Premiere 25.6.5 or later
- Local GPU acceleration with CPU fallback
- People and general foreground models
- Hair, fur, animals, products and objects
- Editable native blur and feather controls
AI Video Background Remover
Earlier Premiere versions & After Effects
Still using a Premiere release earlier than 25.6.5, including older 2025 releases? Keep the legacy version for that workflow. Check Adobe Exchange for its exact supported host versions.
Get the legacy version Compare versionsLearn the workflow
A good place to start.
How to isolate a person from a video background in Premiere Pro
Isolate a person in Premiere Pro without a green screen. Choose a people preset, refine hair and edges, and place a new background behind your clip.
Read guideHow to remove a video background in Premiere Pro
A practical Premiere Pro background removal workflow: choose the right subject preset, preview a clip, remove or blur the background, and refine the result.
Read guideHair and fur background removal in Premiere Pro
Learn which subject presets and mask settings to try for hair and fur in Premiere Pro, with practical tips for soft edges, motion, halos, and background changes.
Read guideA few useful answers
Frequently asked questions
Can I remove a video background in Premiere without a greenscreen?
Yes. AI Background Remover analyzes the foreground rather than a key color, so you can isolate a subject from ordinary footage. Preview the mask first: lighting, contrast and movement affect the result.
Which version should I download?
Use the new Vakago AI Background Remover for Premiere with Premiere 25.6.5 or later. The legacy AI Video Background Remover remains available for earlier Premiere versions and its After Effects workflows.
Can it preserve hair and animal fur?
Soft masks retain partial transparency at fine edges. Use the people models for hair and General foreground for animal fur. Compare models and refine smoothing and expansion against your replacement background; results depend on the footage.
Can it isolate animals, buildings and objects?
The General foreground model supports more than people, including animals, products, objects and mixed foregrounds. Try it for a building with a clear silhouette. It detects foreground; it does not select a specific object by name or guarantee separation of every scene.
Does the plugin use my GPU?
The new extension runs AI locally. Auto prefers GPU acceleration and can fall back to CPU; GPU only and CPU are also available. Processing time depends on the model, resolution, clip length and hardware.
Does my footage need to be uploaded?
AI processing in the new extension happens on your computer. You do not upload your footage to a cloud inference service. Adobe Exchange installation and updates may require internet access.
Made for your Premiere workflow
Your subject.
A different background.
Remove, blur or replace video backgrounds without a greenscreen.
Premiere 25.6.5 or later. Older Premiere or After Effects? Get the legacy version.