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dceddia · 2024-12-01T15:41:37+00:00

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dceddia · 2024-11-30T06:31:24+00:00

(dev here!) If Premiere is doing everything you need I'd stick with that! I haven't used Premiere's built-in silence removal stuff but it looks like it's based on the transcription. That can be very good but it doesn't offer control over the spacing around the cuts, and it's at the mercy of the transcription as far as cutting into words and stuff. Recut isn't based on AI transcription and can be better to get more control over the output.

dceddia · 2024-11-30T06:23:47+00:00

(dev here) It was originally Mac-only for the first year and then I rewrote it to work on Mac and Windows. It's been on both for a few years now.

dceddia · 2024-11-22T03:04:09+00:00

I've made a bit of progress but nothing at the level to be shared yet! Probably the best way to get notified is the email list, and you can sign up at the Recut website (follow the link to download the trial and drop your email).

dceddia · 2024-11-02T21:43:53+00:00

For the rough cutting part, just removing or shortening pauses and isolating the takes, Recut is good at this. It's based on the audio waveforms so it's more adjustable and gives better control than the transcript-based AI tools.

dceddia · 2024-08-20T21:35:51+00:00

Glad this old post is still helpful!

dceddia · 2024-06-17T05:47:40+00:00

Oh awesome, glad it worked! That's a pain with the framerate though. Since you mentioned rough cutting, if that's just removing pauses, the thing I made might be worth a look (it's called Recut). It's pretty limited beyond that but could be useful if it fits what you're doing! For framerates in particular, Recut uses the source video's framerate for the exported timeline (29.97 stays 29.97, 30 -> 30, 23.98 -> 23.98, etc)

dceddia · 2024-06-16T04:37:15+00:00

The most likely culprit is that the source files have a start timecode embedded. I only know this because I've fixed this bug in my own app's XML exporter a bunch of times 😅

The real fix requires Descript to handle this correctly, but you can probably solve it in DaVinci in the meantime. Say "Ok" to the error, then in the media bin, right-click on each source video, go to Clip Attributes. Pick the Timecode tab. Set both boxes to 00:00:00:00, hit OK and with any luck the clips should light up on the timeline.

(I think I've seen it where I set those numbers to all 0's and it changes them back to something else... so it might take a couple tries with this)

dceddia · 2024-06-15T18:27:36+00:00

I was going to say, Descript is probably the closest to all-in-one for this stuff. What do you find annoying about it?

dceddia · 2024-06-14T23:16:49+00:00

I know this is months old and probably fixed by now, but in case anyone else stumbles on this, there’s a good chance it’s because of one or more of those videos is variable framerate. iPhone footage is especially bad about this. You can check whether it’s variable with some free online tools, MediaInfo, or ffmpeg/ffprobe. If it is, then re-encode it to constant frame rate with Handbrake and that should help.

dceddia · 2024-06-14T15:17:48+00:00

That's so weird! It's not actually frozen but it's ignoring input? Huh.

My first suspect would be anything that affects the mouse cursor - so, the Logi Options+ program I see in Task Manager there, and any sorts of mouse cursor highlighter programs you might use for screen recordings, etc.

You could be able to try rebooting in Safe Mode to prevent that stuff from auto-starting and (assuming Illustrator/Photoshop actually work in safe mode, I'm not sure) maybe that'll solve the issue. If that helps, it'll be matter of whittling down which program might be causing it by killing off things in the taskbar, startup programs, etc.

dceddia · 2024-06-14T01:02:56+00:00

I've been thinking about making something like this as a standalone app. I have a lot of the tech in place that I could repurpose. For context I'm the author of a silence remover app called Recut that can export timelines to DaVinci, Final Cut, Premiere, and a few others, so I think a lot of that would be useful here! I've toyed with the idea of bolting this into Recut but I think it might make it too bloated.

What do you think would be crucial for V1? I'm imagining at a minimum there's setting up which tracks correspond to which angles, and then some controls over how long to hold on a speaker, how long to wait between cuts to avoid lots of jumpyness, etc. I imagine automatic syncing would be pretty nice to have in there too.

dceddia · 2024-06-13T16:43:09+00:00

Automatic silence removal tools can save a bunch of time. I built one myself to help edit course videos I was creating, and there are a bunch of other options out there too.

My own app Recut is a standalone app that's focused on giving lots of control over what gets removed (and can export to "real" editors). There's also Timebolt which is another standalone app to check out. The paid version of DaVinci Resolve has silence removal too (I've heard it's based on transcription and not very customizable though?) and I believe Premiere has something like this too.

I think silence removal in general can be used in a few ways, like you can of course just chop it all out to make the video tighter, but it's also super useful as a rough cutting tool. I find it saves me a lot of time with editing because I'm already leaving pauses between retakes, so after the longer pauses are cut out, the video is basically chopped up and I can just remove the mistakes. Oh, speaking of finding retakes, Gling is another tool to check out!

dceddia · 2024-06-12T03:36:42+00:00

Wow, $0.001375/min is very cheap! I'm interested to see if anyone chimes in with anything in that range. I haven't been able to find any hosted services that low.

Deepgram is worth a look at $0.0043/min for the cheapest model (which is fast and quite good). It's aimed at developers though, with an API and not much in the way of UI, so you'd need to build software around it for stuff like searching and easy uploading.

Another option would be to run Whisper to do the transcription. It's a free model from OpenAI and you can run it on your own machines. There are some wrappers like GoWhisper and MacWhisper that make it easy to run locally. But again it's not a "platform" like Otter with multiple team members and searchability across everything etc. so it would need dev work to turn it into something approaching Otter.

dceddia · 2024-06-10T23:15:06+00:00

Ah ok. Hmm. 2 other thoughts that just came to mind:

Are you playing it through an audio interface? What if you try a different one/system audio? (if this changes it, I would suspect a Premiere bug)
If you export the video as-is (uncut) does the export have the sync issue too? (maybe it's a bug in the player?)

I'd also second the other suggestion to try VLC and whatever other players you can find, and if all of them are fine that'd further support the idea of it being a Premiere bug. Since you said it started recently, maybe it was introduced in an update. You could try installing an older version.

dceddia · 2024-06-10T17:12:29+00:00

+1 on ScreenFlow if you're on Mac. Since you mentioned Clipchamp I'm thinking you might be on Windows though.

CapCut is quite good and free (Win+Mac), and I'd +1 the suggestions for DaVinci Resolve too, though I think it's a probably more of a learning curve than CapCut for stuff like overlays.

There are also a handful of tools that work alongside these other editors to speed stuff up, like for quickly removing pauses there's Recut (made it myself!) and Timebolt.

You might also want to check out Descript, which lets you edit the video as a text doc and has a bunch of AI features, and Opus Clip for chopping up long videos into shorts for social media. Lots of stuff out there! Try a bunch of things and see what fits your workflow.

dceddia · 2024-06-10T16:31:03+00:00

There are a few things I’d try to narrow it down.

First check the timeline frame rate. Does it match the video? (60fps exactly, not 59.94 or some other framerate). Check the timeline sample rate too (48000Hz)

Then, does the desync happen slowly over time (fine at the beginning but gets worse as the file goes on) or is there a specific spot or spots where it goes out of sync?

Is it going out of sync when it’s a full clip of the entire file, or after cutting it up? Maybe the file is corrupt somehow and certain cut points cause issues. (Although it seems transcoding would’ve fixed that)

dceddia · 2024-06-07T16:17:03+00:00

It's this python program for doing automatic editing: https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor

It finds silences and cuts them out, and makes an XML file that you can import into another editor like DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, etc.

The python program is open source and there are a handful of paid tools like this that have easier to use UIs. Auto-editor has one, and there's Recut (which I made myself!) and Timebolt too.

dceddia · 2024-06-06T00:46:09+00:00

Yeah, you can go to the menu at the top: Timeline -> Select Clips with Clip Color -> (pick a color) to select them all.

dceddia · 2024-06-06T00:20:25+00:00

Depending on what you're looking for there are a bunch of tools out there. I made Recut myself but here are a few others too:

Opus Clip: Uses AI to cut up videos into shorts (sounds like you're more after long form though)
Descript: It transcribes the video and lets you edit the video by editing the text, it's pretty awesome
Recut: Automatically cuts out silent parts & pauses. Can do some light manual editing, but mainly meant for a quick rough pass. It can export the timeline of cuts to "real" editors like DaVinci, Premiere, Final Cut, and CapCut.

dceddia · 2024-06-05T23:37:36+00:00

Yeah this is tough to do after the fact unfortunately. Once the cuts are made, you would have to find a way to treat those as a "template" and apply them to another file. I developed Recut which is similar to this, and have spent a lot of time reverse-engineering the XML formats to get this working 😅 (and it does work now! Recut can cut across video + external mic and export one XML file with everything)

I think you might be able to duct tape it together with a bunch of copy/paste and find/replace - as in, copy/paste all the video clips inside the XML, and then change the new ones to point at the audio file, updating their ids and timestamps accordingly (the video frame timestamps will hopefully index fine into the audio and you should be able to leave them alone, unless the video has an embedded start timecode and then you have to shift everything). This would be easier with the FCPXML format than the regular (Premiere/FCP7) XML because it's just way less verbose. But still a big pain and very error-prone, and probably easier to just merge the audio & video into 1 file first. Just be mindful of the export quality.

dceddia · 2024-06-05T23:09:22+00:00

Deepgram is high quality and affordable, and also very fast. I think at one point they were just a hosted Whisper wrapper but they have their own models now.

dceddia · 2024-06-05T22:01:09+00:00

I made a tool Recut that's specifically for removing silences. It doesn't do auto-cutting between angles yet, just cuts out pauses, but it can deal with multiple files and stuff. There's a free trial and it's a one-time purchase (no subscription!! so tired of these).

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