Remove the pauses and restarts from a talking video
A creator asks Claude to cut the long pauses, the restart and the repeated line out of a 40-second tips video. cuttingfloor keeps every point, adds big word-by-word captions and a hook title: a 21-second Short.
Before
The clip as it came in · 0:40
What needs to go
Okay, so three things I wish I knew before I started posting. [long pause, looks away] Number one, nobody, nobody, wait, let me start that again. Number one: nobody watches past three seconds unless you give them a reason. [silence] Number two: your first 50 videos are practice [long pause] and that’s fine. [coffee sip] Number three: just post it. Seriously, just post the thing. Just post the thing. Okay, follow for part two. [silence]
Struck in red: 7 things the agent cuts.
The edit
In Claude, with cuttingfloor connected
Okay, so three things I wish I knew before I started posting. [long pause, looks away] Number one, nobody, nobody, wait, let me start that again. Number one: nobody watches past three seconds unless you give them a reason. [silence] Number two: your first 50 videos are practice [long pause] and that’s fine. [coffee sip] Number three: just post it. Seriously, just post the thing. Just post the thing. Okay, follow for part two. [silence]
Cut out the long pauses, the ums and the bits where I start over.
On it. I’ll find where you’re really talking, mark the restarts and repeats, and keep your last clean try of each line.
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skills.searchthe cleanup steps - Used cuttingfloor ›
media.analyzeevery word, timed - Used cuttingfloor ›
code.runwords beside speech, per take - Used cuttingfloor ›
code.runJev marked restarts and repeats - Used cuttingfloor ›
edit.batchkept 6 parts, in order - Used cuttingfloor ›
edit.batchsmoothed the cuts - Used cuttingfloor ›
audio.set_masterlouder, no clipping - Used cuttingfloor ›
render.frameschecked both sides of each cut - Used cuttingfloor ›
export.videovertical, 0:21
Done: 40 seconds down to 21. I cut the restart, the repeated line, the long pause and the coffee sip, and kept every point in order. Want big captions?
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Yes, big captions.
Big bold captions coming, a word at a time, with a title up top for the first few seconds.
- Used cuttingfloor ›
media.analyzeexact word timings - Used cuttingfloor ›
code.runcaptions and hook title - Used cuttingfloor ›
render.frameschecked the caption size - Used cuttingfloor ›
edit.batchbigger text - Used cuttingfloor ›
qa.checklength and volume - Used cuttingfloor ›
export.videovertical, 0:21
Here it is, ready to post: big yellow captions all the way through and “3 things I wish I knew before posting” across the top. Want a thumbnail too?
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Shown in your agent: Claude, ChatGPT or Kazi. cuttingfloor does the editing and hands back the file; your agent shows it to you.
After
Ready to post · 0:40 → 0:21
What the agent did
- Followed the steps for cleaning up a talking video.
- Lined up every word with where she’s really talking in each take.
- Had Jev, its own vision model, mark the restart and the repeated line, then checked each one.
- Kept the clean second try of “Number one” and dropped the first.
- Dropped the second “Just post the thing.”
- Cut the long pause, the coffee sip and the silences between takes.
- Softened every cut and zoomed in a little on every other part, so nothing jumps.
- Made the sound louder without clipping.
- Added big word-by-word captions with the spoken word in yellow.
- Put a hook title across the top for the first 5 seconds, and exported it vertical.
The skill it followed: Cut pauses, ums and restarts · Cut a dance video to the beat, with no copyrighted music · Edit a two-person interview into a Short · Turn a beauty product review into a 15-second Short · Edit a real estate listing video with ChatGPT · Let AI pick your best take, then make the thumbnail · Add a talking head to a slide explainer, then make it a Short · All demos