Haha, for a moment I was racking my brains about how I would write a "macro" script to detect blank audio and then highlight the section and delete it automatically.
Doing it manually takes me about an hour for every 10 minutes of video because I'm working on sections that are as little as 1/2 second long at a time. And the whole point is to find a quick way to edit out all the silent bits. It's really no good just working on the audio, because it's already synchronized to the video. Then I can go through and check the timing (and pauses) manually and simply tweak them.Īs you can see, it's integral to the process that I remove the video corresponding to the silent audio sections as well. It would save me hours if I could start by deleting all sections in the timeline where there is audio below a certain db threshold, longer than 1/2 second, say. A 10-minute training video can take me several hours to edit manually. But it takes ages, because I'm also taking out the small 1/2-second pauses and hesitations while I'm thinking about what to say. In order to tighten up the commentary, I go through the entire video and highlight & delete all the bits where there is no, or very low, audio (with auto ripple selected). I produce training videos with audio commentary.
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Mostly it is between sentences, so it’s no problem, but sometimes during a complicated video edit, a split happens in the middle of important audio, and the auto-fading makes a noticeable warble in the sound. Splitting a grouped block of files also splits my master audio narration. I then do a complicated cut of video components, requiring lots of splitting. After synchronising all the clips in time, I need to group them all to keep them in sync.
I’m doing a complicated cut of piece-to-camera narration, PC desktop recording, and other graphical overlays, enhanced with externally recorded narration. It would occasionally be useful for me to minimise this auto-fade down to 0 ms in order to maintain continuous audio despite splitting.