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Live preview
Every slider move recalculates the preview in 90 ms. You see exactly what will be cut before you press the button.
Smart trimming
Cut the silences out of an hour of footage in 2 minutes
AutoCut finds the silences in your audio and cuts them automatically. 3 sliders, 4 presets, a live preview that recalculates as you move them. You press once, it comes out clean.
macOS · Premiere Pro 2025+ · Windows in closed beta · 14-day trial
✓ macOS · Premiere Pro 2025+ ✓ Windows in closed beta ✓ 14-day free trial ✓ Updates included
Why AutoCut
Trimming without the pain
Three reasons editors switch to AutoCut.
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TurboCuts engine
It decompresses the .prproj, splits at the boundaries, removes the silences and ripple-shifts everything. No razor tool, no undo flood.
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4 built-in presets
Podcast, interview, aggressive, gentle: each preset sets the dB threshold, the minimum length and the padding. Plus your own presets.
90 ms
Recalculation time
4
Built-in presets
O(n log n)
Engine complexity
0
Undo flood
How it works
3 steps, 2 minutes
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Set the sliders
Silence threshold (dB), minimum length, and padding before and after. Or pick a preset: podcast, interview, aggressive, gentle.
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Check the preview
The live preview marks every cut segment in red on the waveform. Adjust in real time until it looks right.
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Cut in one click
The TurboCuts engine decompresses, splits, deletes and recompresses your project. No razor tool, no manual ripple, no undo flood.
Under the hood
The TurboCuts engine
No razor tool, no undo flood. TurboCuts decompresses the .prproj file (gzipped XML), finds the silence boundaries, removes the clips involved and recomputes every position with an O(n log n) prefix sum. The project is recompressed and reimported automatically.
The result: your undo history stays clean. To undo it all, one click on Restore brings back the sequence from before the cuts.
Presets and customization
4 presets, plus your own
Each preset sets three parameters: the dB threshold (how quiet counts as silence), the minimum length (so breathing pauses survive), and the padding (a margin before and after, so word onsets are not clipped).
Podcast: -38 dB / 0.3 s · Interview: -42 dB / 0.5 s · Aggressive: -32 dB / 0.2 s · Gentle: -45 dB / 0.8 s
Frequently asked questions
? How is this different from AutoCut.com's silence detection?
AutoCut.com detects silences. So do we, but our TurboCuts engine never touches the razor tool: it edits the project XML directly, which avoids the undo flood and keeps your history clean. And if you want to go further, Cleanup AI (another tool in the plugin) catches the "ums", retakes and stumbles on top of the silences.
? Can I undo the cuts?
Yes. One click on Restore brings back the sequence from before the cuts: the engine makes a backup before each run.
? Does it work with multiple tracks?
The silence threshold is measured on the audio track you select. The cuts then apply to every linked video and audio track.
? Can I create my own presets?
Yes. Set the sliders how you like, save the preset under a name, and it is in the menu every time you open the panel.
? What is the minimum Premiere Pro version?
Premiere Pro 2025 or later, on macOS. The Windows version is in closed beta.
The other tools in the plugin
AutoCut is one of 13 tools (plus 10 micro-tools) in the panel. Have a look at the others.
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