Remove long pauses
PointerCam finds the stretches where nothing is said or done and offers to take them out. You choose what counts as a pause, and anything removed can come back.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Video editor
- Pro
- Cuts & Privacy
- Cuts and pauses
From Simple#
When a take has long pauses, Simple suggests Remove 3 long pauses, with how much time it saves. Only pauses over 2 seconds count there.
- Remove takes them all out at once.
- Show me marks them on the timeline and goes to the first, so you can check before removing anything.
With more control, in Pro#
- 1Open Cuts & Privacy › Cuts and pauses and find Find the dead air.
- 2Choose what a pause is: Silence, No activity, or both at once, where a stretch has to be quiet and still.
- 3Set Sensitivity, from Cautious to Eager, the Shortest gap to take out, and how much of each gap to Leave so words do not land hard against each other.
- 4Press Mark to mark the gaps it found, check them on the timeline, then press Remove for the marked gaps.Nothing is removed until you say so, and Drop the marks leaves the take as it was.
Removed lists every stretch the piece leaves out. Any of them can be put back.
Read next
Trim, split and cut out mistakesDrag the ends of the footage to trim it. Press S to split it in two, X to cut a second at the playhead, or hold Shift and drag across a stretch to remove it.Speed up or slow down part of the videoMake any stretch play from 0.25× to 8×, such as a slow upload or a long form. The video’s length changes to match.
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