Edit by transcript

Once a take has a transcript, you can edit the video like a document. See Captions to make one.

Cut words

1. Open the transcript in the Captions tab.
2. Select the words you do not want. The arrow keys move through the words, and ⇧ with an arrow extends the selection.
3. Press Delete.

The matching video and sound are cut in one undo step.

Bring a word back

A cut word stays in the transcript, struck through. Click it and choose Undo trim to put it back. ⌘Z works too.

Filler words

Above the transcript, a chip counts the filler words, like “um” and “uh”:

• Remove N · Apply all cuts them all at once.
• One by one lets you review each.

Long pauses

A second chip counts pauses over 0.8 seconds. Shorten all trims each one down, so the talk keeps a natural rhythm. The removed time shows beside it.

Tidy up

Tidy up, in the Captions tab, finds silences and filler words in a review list. Apply the ones you want together, with one undo. It works for takes without a transcript too.

Every cut, from Tidy up or from deleting words, fades the sound for 12 ms on each side of the join, on every audio track, so a cut never clicks. In Silence options, Keep laughs and ‘mhmm’ (on by default) leaves out a pause that has a laugh or a sigh in it and a listener’s “mhmm”, so they are not cut.