Cut the dead air

1. Open the studio and drop the video, or a voice-over. It stays on your computer.
2. Press Find words. On-device transcription is free and unlimited; cloud transcription covers 90+ languages.
3. Under Layout, turn on Remove dead space, and Cut filler words and Cut retakes if you want them. The preview plays the cut straight away.
4. Export: an MP4 with captions burned in, a transparent caption overlay that matches the cut, or a cut list for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.

• Dead space: every pause longer than 0.2 seconds by default, cut between the words so the end of a soft word stays in. Set the length anywhere from 0.1 to 1.5 seconds, and how much air to keep around each word.
• Filler words: um, uh, erm, hmm and stuttered repeats, with the hesitation sounds of German, French and Polish too.
• Retakes: a sentence you started, stopped and said again. Fast edit keeps the last take.
• Jump-cut zoom: a small punch-in on every other cut, so the jumps read as a choice.
• Volume: the cut leveled to -14 LUFS with peaks under -1 dBTP, the loudness YouTube, TikTok and Reels play at.

Every cut shows on the timeline, and a click keeps that pause, filler or take in. The captions follow the cut, so the words on screen always match the sound.

Already edit in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro? Export the cut list: an EDL and an FCPXML that rebuild the tightened cut from your original clip on the timeline, at full quality. Then export a transparent MOV of the captions with Fast edit on, and it lines up with that cut on the track above.

The free dead air finder shows how many seconds of silence a recording has and where the longest pauses are, and the loudness meter measures it against -14 LUFS. Both open the file in the studio with the matching Fast edit tool on.