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Free Black Screen Video Download
Download a free black screen video, 480p to 8K, five seconds to one hour. MP4, WebM or MOV, no signup, no audio.
480p–8KMP4 WebM MOVNo watermarkInstant download
What Is a Black Screen Video?
A black screen video is an ordinary video file whose every frame is solid black at 16:9 — no logo, no timecode, no watermark, no audio. Ours are encoded in advance and served from a CDN, so Download saves a finished clip rather than building one in your browser. Choose the resolution, the length and the container your player accepts.
How to Download a Black Screen Video
Check the File
Read the summary under “More options” first: estimated size, codec, and no audio track.
Download
Click Download and the file saves straight to your device. No account, no email, nothing held back.
Every resolution from 480p to 8K, all eight lengths, and all three formats are free — no account, no payment, no watermark.
Popular Use Cases
Video Editing
Fade-to-black transitions, title-card beds, spacers between segments, and placeholders while a shot is still being graded. Drop in a clip that already matches your sequence — same resolution, same 16:9 frame — and Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro take it without a render pass. The five- and ten-second files cover most transitions.
OLED & Display Testing
Fill a screen with nothing and a panel has nowhere to hide. This is the check to run on a monitor while the return window is open, on a second-hand phone before you pay, and on a TV you are about to calibrate. Play it fullscreen in a dark room; the section below names each fault.
Presentations & Events
A standby slate before a keynote, between conference sessions, or while a band changes over. A dark projector beats a desktop, a screensaver, or a blue “No Signal” card, and it holds the room without powering the projector down and waiting for it to warm up again. Load the 30-minute file and set it to repeat.
Sleep & Relaxation
Keep the display dark all night without switching it off. The file carries no audio track, no ad break and no autoplay card to light the room at 2 a.m. On an OLED phone a black pixel is simply an unlit one, so the screen can stay on for hours drawing almost nothing, and it plays offline.
Content Creation
The base layer for a podcast upload, an ASMR track, a lyric video or a text-only intro card. Solid black holds white type at maximum contrast and gives the encoder almost nothing to spend bitrate on, so more of the platform's compression budget goes to whatever you lay on top. In OBS, a starting-soon scene.
Device Keep-Awake
Media playback normally stops a phone, tablet or laptop dimming or locking. Loop a dark clip fullscreen and you get that with almost no light in the room and nothing extra installed — useful for a recipe on the counter, sheet music on a stand, a kiosk, or a long transfer you want to watch.
What to Look For in a Display Test
Fill the screen, kill the room lights, and give your eyes a minute. Fixed red, green, blue or white dots are stuck pixels. Bright patches at the edges of an LCD are backlight bleed, uneven gray blotches are clouding, and a silvery haze that shifts as you move your head is IPS glow. On OLED, a faint outline of a menu bar is burn-in. Check at your usual brightness, then at maximum.
Available Resolutions and Formats
MP4
H.264 in an MP4 container. The safe default for browsers, phones, TVs, car head units and editors.
WebM
VP9 in a WebM container, built for browser embedding. A big saving at 4K and 8K and on very short clips; larger than the MP4 on long clips below 4K.
MOV
The same H.264 stream as the MP4, wrapped for QuickTime and Final Cut Pro. Not ProRes, and no alpha channel.
Resolutions480p720p1080p4K8K
Durations5s10s30s1 min5 min10 min30 min1 hour
Identical frames cost almost nothing to store: a full hour of 1080p MP4 is 716 KB, one minute is 18 KB.
Real File Sizes
| Length | 720p | 1080p | 4K |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5s | 4 KB | 8 KB | 26 KB |
| 10s | 5 KB | 8 KB | 245 KB |
| 30s | 6 KB | 10 KB | 735 KB |
| 1 min | 11 KB | 18 KB | 1.4 MB |
| 5 min | 41 KB | 61 KB | 7.2 MB |
| 10 min | 80 KB | 120 KB | 14.3 MB |
| 30 min | 238 KB | 358 KB | 43.0 MB |
| 1 hour | 474 KB | 716 KB | 86.0 MB |
All sizes are MP4. WebM saves a lot at 4K and 8K but runs larger on long clips below 4K, and the MOV is the same H.264 video in a different container.
Looping and Fullscreen Playback
Every desktop player can loop a black screen video indefinitely. In VLC, press L until the loop button reads Loop One, then F (Command-F on a Mac) for fullscreen. In QuickTime, tick View › Loop, then View › Enter Full Screen. In Windows Media Player, switch repeat on in the playback controls and use the fullscreen button. Phone gallery apps often have no repeat control; VLC for Android and iOS does. In OBS, add it as a Media Source and tick Loop.
Black Screen Video vs. a YouTube Stream
YouTubeVSBlackScreenVideo
| Feature | YouTube | BlackScreenVideo.com |
|---|---|---|
| Offline use | Premium download, in the app | Your own file, anywhere |
| What you end up with | A stream you play online | A file on your drive, up to 8K |
| Format choice | No control | MP4, WebM, MOV |
| Duration options | Fixed per video | 8 presets, 5s to 1 hour |
| Inside the file | Ads, intros, end cards | Only black frames |
| File quality | Re-compressed | Original, no re-encoding |
YouTube is great for streaming. When you need a clean downloadable file for editing, embedding, or offline playback, direct export with format control is faster and more reliable.
Choose Your Duration
8 durations available — pure black, zero audio, ready for instant download.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — every resolution, length and format, no account, no payment.
No. There is no audio track in any file.
No. Any file downloads without signing up.
Yes — client work, presentations and commercial edits are all covered.
Streaming is fine until you need the file itself: a chosen codec, an exact length, offline playback.
Tap and hold the download link, then choose Save to Files.
MP4 unless something forces your hand. WebM for browser embeds and for 4K or 8K. MOV when an app insists on it.
Yes. Playback normally keeps the screen lit, so loop the file and the device stays awake.
No. Every download is clean, with no watermark.
Yes — personal and commercial work, including monetized YouTube uploads. See our Terms of Service.
Almost always the display. Match the HDMI black level at both ends so limited and full range agree, then check the brightness setting. LCD backlights glow slightly; only OLED goes fully dark.
MP4. H.264 is the one decoder in nearly every smart TV, car head unit, USB player and older handset. WebM needs VP9, patchy outside browsers and Android. If a device refuses, drop to 1080p.
Yes. A 9:16 timeline leaves bars top and bottom, in the same black as the picture. Scale to fill for an exact vertical export; the 30-second file suits a status post.
Loop it. One hour is the longest file, and any player repeats it indefinitely — see the section above. For one longer file, lay the clip end to end on a timeline and export once.