[powrtoch]

Whoa. For years I've been seeing YouTube videos that seem to just teleport choppily around what I assumed were silences. I always assumed there was a standard tool that everyone used to do this. I can do the equivalent thing to a podcast episode in like 5 seconds in Logic. The notion that people have been doing this by hand is staggering, but kudos to you for finally coming along and filling this niche.

[rzzzt]

It's not automatic, but there is this marker tool that uses an audio track to make note of important timestamps while you are recording: https://github.com/evankale/Blipper

The author also wrote supporting scripts for Vegas to extract scenes based on the position of the blips in the audio.

[darkteflon]

Can I ask what tool / plugin you use to do this in Logic?

[powrtoch]

1. Highlight the clip and "strip silence" to split it into a bunch of separate clips the leave out the silent bits 2. Highlight those clips and "shift left within selection" (I might not have that command name exactly right) to collapse them against each other

[shahahmed]

thanks! yeah, we have several video editors on our team and i edit a lot of videos - it's just how it is haha. there are tools that help with this problem, but they tend to be plugins or one-off tools, but we're happy that we can go end to end in one spot all in the browser

[copperx]

I'm pretty sure of seeing an ad for such a plugin more than 5 years ago. Is it now built in into most editors such as Final Cut Pro?

[shahahmed]

if you know how to do this natively in Final Cut, I would love to know how -- would be super useful for me!