Smart trimming

Trim 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.

Works with Premiere Pro 2018+ · macOS & Windows · 14-day trial

Premiere Pro 2018+ macOS & Windows 14-day free trial Updates included
AutoCut: Black Hat Editor Tools
Why AutoCut

Trimming without the pain

Three reasons editors switch to AutoCut.

Live preview

Every slider move recalculates the preview in 90 ms. You see exactly what will be cut before you press the button.

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

  1. 01

    Set the sliders

    Silence threshold (dB), minimum length, and padding before and after. Or pick a preset: podcast, interview, aggressive, gentle.

  2. 02

    Check the preview

    The live preview marks every cut segment in red on the waveform. Adjust in real time until it looks right.

  3. 03

    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. One Ctrl+Z reverses the whole operation.

AutoCut, cut detail
Detailed view of AutoCut cuts on the Premiere Pro timeline
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

AutoCut presets
The AutoCut panel with the Podcast, Interview, Aggressive and Gentle presets

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. A single Ctrl+Z reverses every cut at once. The engine also backs up the project 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 2018 (v12) and everything after it. The plugin is developed and tested on the 2025-2026 releases.

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