Cut the silences out of any talking video automatically

Stop scrubbing through your timeline hunting for dead air. auto-editor listens to your video and removes every pause in one command: a 70-second clip came out at 36 seconds in about 4 seconds of work. It's free, it runs offline, and it can hand the cuts to Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut or Shotcut so you can fine-tune them.

23 minBeginnerTools: FreeStep 1 free

Tested 9 Oct 2026 · auto-editor 31.7.2, Shotcut 26.9.27, Windows 11, a 70-second talking test clip

auto-editor working on your PCone 43MB file, no installer, no account

Any talking video or podcast with the dead air taken out, in seconds

Control over the pacehow much breathing room to leave, and how quiet counts as silence

The cuts as a project file you can open and adjust in your video editor

Before you start

Level 0 done (you can open PowerShell and cd into a folder)
A talking video or voice recording to practise on (MP4 and MP3 both work). Use a copy, not your only original.
About 50MB of free disk space, plus room for the edited copy

01/07Download auto-editor0 done

STEP 01 of 07~3 min

Download auto-editor

It's a single program file. Nothing to install, nothing running in the background.

1
Open PowerShell and paste this. It makes a folder called auto-editor in your user folder, goes into it, and downloads the latest Windows version from the official GitHub releases. It's about 43MB.
Windows PowerShell
```
mkdir $HOME\auto-editor; cd $HOME\auto-editor
curl.exe -L -o auto-editor.exe https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor/releases/latest/download/auto-editor-windows-x86_64.exe
```
Mac
```
brew install auto-editor
```
2
Now check it runs:
Terminal
```
.\auto-editor --version
```
Output
```
31.7.2
```
TipThe .\ at the start means "the program in this folder". PowerShell needs it because auto-editor isn't installed system-wide. Every Windows command in this mission starts with it, so cd $HOME\auto-editor first each time. On a Mac with Homebrew, leave the .\ off and just type auto-editor.
On Linux, download auto-editor-linux-x86_64 from the releases page ↗, rename it to auto-editor and run chmod +x ./auto-editor once.

✓

Checkpoint.\auto-editor --version prints 31.7.2 or a newer number.

If it breaks'auto-editor' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program + 2 more

'auto-editor' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

You left off the .\, or you're in a different folder. Run cd $HOME\auto-editor, then .\auto-editor --version.

An older tutorial says pip install auto-editor

The developer no longer publishes the command-line tool on pip, according to the official install page ↗. Use the download above instead.

You have a Snapdragon (ARM) Windows laptop

Change x86_64 to aarch64 at the end of the download link. That's the official ARM build.

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02Cut the silences from your first video4 min

03Look before you render2 min

04Change the pace: margin and threshold6 min

05Send the cuts to your video editor5 min

06Clean up a whole folder of videos at once3 min

07Check what it cut before you post3 min

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