[nihey]

I get what you're saying, personally, I prefer more slowly-paced videos.

This fast-paced editing with no breathing in between sentences is a trend that I believe will shift sometime in the future.

My tool allows the user to choose whether he would like to remove the silence and how much time between each cut. Hopefully, this will work for both kinds of editing styles.

[codetrotter]

What I’d like to see is an algorithmically controlled middle-ground that cuts out most of the pauses but also leaves natural pauses every now and then to give breathing room.

Basically a kind of auto-edit that helps give natural flow with breaks for the audience to absorb the material.

Think of fluent public speakers. Some of them speak in a way that their words are confident and coherent while not being just a constant stream of words.

For example Steve Jobs. If my memory of watching him speak on video, he speaks but he also takes plenty of pauses in between. (Presentations that he had rehearsed over and over before walking on stage and giving them.)

That kind of thing would be magic to have automatically done by the editor.

[walterbell]

  Creator AI:       removes pauses
  Viewer AI:        inserts pauses for synthetic viewer or speaker
  Sci-Fi Viewer AI: modifies speed/pitch/pause by live neural feedback

[juliushuijnk]

I get this is a tool, and it's up to the creator on how to use it. I was mostly curious if I was the only one who had this experience. I agree with codetrotter on the middle ground part. It would be nice if the tool could smartly add/keep certain pauses.

My assumption is this trend started with YouTubers looking at their stats on when people leave their video. Presumably when a video has a pause, it is a moment someone can think, and thus also think about perhaps not watching the video. People like me who stop watching because of the lack of pause, stop at a seemingly random moment, so there is no clear signal in the stats.