Removing pauses
Taking the quiet between sentences out of a talking-head take in one go, picture and sound together, with the count shown before anything moves.
Sequence ▸ Remove Silences… takes the quiet stretches out of a cut, so it jumps from one sentence to the next. It cuts the picture and the sound at the same places, so nothing goes out of sync.
It works on the whole cut, or only between your in and out marks if you've set both. It listens to the sound tracks selected in the track panel, or to every sound track when none is selected. Leave a music track unselected and the music won't keep a pause in.
The three settings
| Setting | What it means |
|---|---|
| Quieter than this is a pause | How quiet counts as nobody talking. Raise it if a noisy room keeps pauses in. |
| Shortest pause to take out | A gap shorter than this stays, so the breaths inside a sentence aren't cut. |
| Keep at each end | A little quiet left either side of each cut, so a word's tail and the next breath stay. |
As you move them, the sheet counts what will come out before anything changes: 5 pauses, 12.4 s in all. The cut goes from 00:03:10:00 to 00:02:57:14. The button says the number it will remove.
Undo
It is one edit. Undo puts every pause back at once, and any notes inside a pause go back to where they were. Notes are never deleted: while the pauses are out, a note that was inside one sits on the cut where it was.
It reads the same waveform the timeline draws, so nothing is uploaded and nothing waits for a transcript.