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How to tighten a video by removing pauses

Cutting silence is the fastest way to make a talking-head video watchable. It is also the easiest to overdo.

A first take is mostly good, with gaps. Removing the gaps is the highest-value edit available and takes minutes rather than hours.

The app finds silences longer than about a second and proposes each as a cut you can review. Nothing is removed until you agree to it, and every cut can be switched off again afterwards — the original recording is never modified.

Do not remove all of them. A pause before an important sentence is doing work, and a video with every gap cut out is exhausting to watch. Take out the ones where you were thinking; leave the ones where the listener is.

The Assist tab: a Remove pauses section reading six of six cuts on, removing 10.3 seconds, with All on and All off actions and a switch for each detected pause listed by timestamp and length.
Every proposed cut is listed with its timestamp and length, and each one can be refused. Nothing is removed without being shown first.

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Remove pauses

Long silences are found and proposed as cuts you review one at a time, with undo. Nothing is removed without you agreeing to it.

Cut a selected stretch

Drag across the waveform and cut. The timeline closes up, captions retime, and the cut stays switchable off afterwards.

Trim on a zoomable timeline

Pinch to zoom. At full magnification one pixel is milliseconds, so an in-point lands on the frame you meant.