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Silence Cutter

Drop in a recording, find the dead air, and download a tighter take plus a cut list for your editor.

Sample

A made-up podcast take with the usual stops and starts, measured the same way your recording would be:

small-shop-hours-ep14.wav

Balanced settings

  • Kept
  • Cut
  • Silence threshold
Time saved
1:11
26% shorter
Original length
4:31
New length
3:20
Cuts
19
Longest pause removed
15.2 s

Cut your own recording

  • Drop in your own audio or video, about an hour of stereo on a computer
  • Tune the cuts and hear the tighter take before you download
  • A tightened WAV, plus an XML, EDL or CSV cut list for your editor

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How to use the cut list in your editor

The cut list points at your original file, so your video keeps its full quality. Your editor just needs to find that file again.

Premiere Pro

  1. 1Pick your video's frame rate and download the XML or the EDL.
  2. 2Choose File > Import and select the file. It comes in as a new sequence with the cuts already made.
  3. 3If the clips show as offline, select them, right-click, choose Link Media, and point it at your original recording.

DaVinci Resolve

  1. 1Set the project's timeline frame rate to match your video before you import.
  2. 2Choose File > Import > Timeline and select the XML or the EDL.
  3. 3If Resolve asks where the media is, point it at the folder with your original recording.

Any other editor

  1. 1Most editors import an EDL or an XML in the same way: import it, then relink to your original file.
  2. 2Or open the CSV for the exact times of every kept and removed stretch.
  3. 3For audio-only shows, drop the tightened WAV straight onto your timeline.

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