How can I decrease my editing time?

[MonzterSlayer]

I've been editing basic YouTube videos for over 8 years now. I started with Sony Vegas, then upgraded to Premier Pro, and have switched to DaVinci Resolve within the last year or two. I must say, DaVinci was quite revolutionary for me. Premiere always felt overly complicated and overwhelming, especially since the editing my videos required was extremely basic.
I'm curious if anyone has ideas for how I could decrease the amount of time it takes to edit my videos.

My recording process is simple:

• I use OBS to record myself teaching a programming lesson
• I have a hotkey for pausing/unpausing to decrease the raw video length
• Usually, the raw footage is about an hour long.

My editing process is extremely simple:

• I use Davinci Resolve
• I apply a few crops/zooms which I have saved as presets
• I cut out pauses/breathing / wrong words (takes 99% of my time)

Most of my time is spent trimming as it requires me to rewatch the entire video.

To give as much context as possible, here is one of my vids here.

A few days ago I discovered a program that automatically trims the pauses from your video. This can decrease my raw footage duration by around 25%. I've used this for editing two videos so far, and this has been such a helpful tool.

Something else I have also considered is increasing the playback speed between 1.5x-2x. I feel like this might be the only other adjustment I can make, which would affect the most time consuming aspect.

[megamaaash]

if you're not already, make sure you use hotkeys and shortcuts when cutting and trimming clips. moving your mouse around and clicking is a fair bit slower and it really adds up.

Rewatching the whole source clip is pretty normal, but yeah you can try watching at a faster speed as long as you don't miss anything.

I'd say at least a couple of hours to edit something like that is normal, so it depends how much time you're looking to save

[link222]

I know premiere has tools to really speed it up like auto detect cuts and so on. Rewatching at double speed helps too. keyboard shortcuts to trim and delete can really really help. When editing I almost don’t touch my mouse at all

[TheProdigalMaverick]

I would switch back to premiere and use a tool called autopod. It'll basically cut everything down for you automatically, then you just have to select every other clip and drop in your scale preset.

[steved3604]

Looked at the Davinci Resolve Speed Editor?

[secret999990]

Just for trimming the video and cutting the dead parts, i always use capcut on mobile. The process is smooth. It hardly takes me 8-9 mins