AutoEdit Pro

Silence removal & mark cuts

The audio tools are the most powerful in AutoEdit Pro. Here's how to get the best results, from prepping your clips to the final cut.

How silence removal works

Silence removal does NOT use AI. Instead, it analyzes the volume keyframe data of each clip and the speech markers that Premiere Pro generates. From that information it detects where there is sound and where there isn't, and trims the silent regions out of your sequence.

Silence settings

Three settings control how aggressive the cut is:

Threshold

Defines the volume below which a region is considered silence. The range is -60 to -10 dB. The lower the value, the more aggressive the cut.

Minimum duration

Ignores very short pauses so your cuts don't sound choppy.

Padding

Keeps a little air around each speech segment, so words aren't clipped at the start or end.

You also get three ready-to-use presets: Podcast, Talking Head, and Interview.

Preview before you cut

Before applying anything, AutoEdit Pro shows you exactly what will happen:

Total silent duration and its percentage, the number of silent regions, a waveform (red = silence, green = content), and the recoverable time. See it before you cut it.

Mark cuts

Mark cuts places a marker at each clip edit point, that is, wherever one clip ends and the next begins. It does not detect musical rhythm: it works on the cuts that already exist in your sequence.

It's useful to jump quickly between takes, annotate your timeline, or set reference points before you keep editing.