diff --git a/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoSampleExporter.java b/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoSampleExporter.java
index 6249078a46..c8e39dff95 100644
--- a/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoSampleExporter.java
+++ b/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoSampleExporter.java
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ import org.checkerframework.dataflow.qual.Pure;
 /** Processes, encodes and muxes raw video frames. */
 /* package */ final class VideoSampleExporter extends SampleExporter {
 
-  private static final String TAG = "VideoSampleExporter";
   private final TransformerVideoGraph videoGraph;
   private final EncoderWrapper encoderWrapper;
   private final DecoderInputBuffer encoderOutputBuffer;