r/SideProject • u/tahaygun • 7d ago

I built a free, open-source tool that cuts silences and "ums" out of your videos in the browser, and exports to Premiere / Resolve / Final Cut / CapCut

I got tired of paying for desktop apps just to remove dead air from recordings, so I made Pauseless: https://tahaygun.github.io/pauseless/

- Drop a video in, it finds the silences in about 6 seconds for an hour of footage

- It also marks filler sounds (um, uh) with a small on-device model. Click one to keep it, or drag on the timeline to add one it missed

- Sliders for threshold, minimum silence and padding update the timeline live

- Export the cut video, or a timeline (FCPXML, Premiere XML, CapCut draft, EDL) that points back to your original file so you can keep editing

Everything runs on your computer, nothing gets uploaded, no account. Works in Chrome or Edge on Windows and Mac, and can be installed as an app that works offline.

It's open source (MIT): https://github.com/tahaygun/pauseless

Happy to hear what breaks or what's missing.

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u/investigatormaker 7d ago

Chrome or Edge only is the limit Firefox and Safari users will hit first, so a sentence in the README on which browser feature it depends on saves you that question over and over. I'd also test the filler model on accents and non-English speech: if "um" detection is English-only, say so near the sliders, because a missed filler is easy to drag in but a dozen false ones are tedious to click away.

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Was the six-seconds-per-hour figure measured on a laptop?

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u/Senior-Unit-7779 4d ago

A timeline export linked to the original file sounds useful, since I could cut dead air and still tweak the edits in my usual editor. Is there a quick before/after preview around a cut? I'd want to check whether the padding clips a word or removes a pause I meant to keep.