every single jump cut you're seeing right now was made automatically in a split second
in an app let me explain one of the most tedious parts of editing a talking head
or interview style video is cutting out all the silent parts it's time consuming and will often
just take you completely out of the flow of your edit there must be a better way about a year ago
i stumbled upon a tweet that mentioned an app that would automatically cut out all the silent parts
in my raw video this definitely peaked my interest and so i thought i'd give it a try i installed the
app's free trial and gave it a go and within minutes i realized that what used to take me
half an hour to an hour per video took the app all 10 seconds my mind was blown i began to think of
all the hours upon hours of time i could save with this app and so i bought the full version
affiliate link in the description but seriously looking back over my 102 videos on youtube to date
i estimate that this app has saved me between 25 and 50 hours of video editing in the past year
so now i can go straight to actually putting together my videos and i skipped that tedious and
time-consuming process of removing all the silence now the name of this magical app is recut and all
seriousness even though i do have an affiliate link in the description i genuinely stand by
my recommendation of this app recap hasn't paid me to make this video or anything like that i
just genuinely have gotten so much value from it so let's jump onto my macbook and i'll give
you a quick demo of how it actually works all right so here we are and i've got recap open on
my mac already and it's super simple all you have to do is get your raw footage which i've got here
and literally just drag and drop straight to recap and that's it it's done as you can see
down here it's cut a video that was 7 minutes 48 seconds down to 3 minutes and 49 seconds
with 79 cuts so if you hit play it will show all the parts of your video that do have audio
as you can see here i just muck around with my mic so i can go ahead and delete those clips
and then i'll just jump straight ahead to the parts in the video that actually do have audio so
you can go ahead and manually edit the whole clip right in recut the other cool thing is you've got
some options when it comes to cutting out the silence so here you've got a threshold i just
leave it on auto because it just does a good job of automatically figuring out where the silent
parts are but you can set a threshold for any audio which is below it would be considered a
silent clip you can set the minimum duration of a silence that will be cut out you can adjust the
padding so how much time there is at the end and at the beginning of a cut between silences i like
point three out of being experimented with it lately maybe i'll put it on
0.35 for this one i find that keeps it pretty consistent for my voice and then you can remove
blips so for example if i just knocked the mic and i wasn't doing anything else anything shorter than
0.2 of a second will just be automatically cut out and that's literally it this used to take me
probably like half an hour to cut up a clip like this so once we've got it how we like it in recap
all we have to do is hit export up here now you can fully export the new file as a new file with
the silence removed or which is what i prefer you can go export timeline only and export it as an
xml and you can do this for final cut premier davinci resolve whatever you like obviously i
use final cut so i would hit final cut moves on clips export and then i would just save it recut
test and that's it it's done now all we have to do once we close re-cut we just navigate to wherever
that xml file is double click and we'll get a dialog asking which library we want to import
this xml into i'm just going to put it into this untitled one hit choose and there it is it's in
my timeline each clip individually cut ready to go and if i want i can move these around i can
edit i can do whatever i like and now i have the base of my entire video already cut up i
can get straight into color grading adding sound effects all that kind of stuff editing the actual
video itself so it's got the flow and yeah super simple saves me so much time so there you have
it i do hope that you get as much use and value out of recut as i have if you are a windows user
unfortunately it's a mac only app for now although there is a windows version in the works i believe
in the meantime you could try time bolt it's a similar app that removes the silent parts from
videos i've tried it and it's a little bit clunky and it's not as intuitive as recut
but it could be good to fill in the gap other than that don't forget to check out my creative
tech playlist and i hope you have an amazing day and i'll see you very soon in the next video