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# Jump Cut Tool

> Automatically remove silence from your footage.

Jump Cut removes silence from your footage automatically. It uses **voice detection** — not a simple volume threshold — so it keeps whispers, breaths at the end of a sentence and quiet delivery, while cutting real dead air. It is approximately **10x faster** than competitors like AutoPod.

Works in **Premiere Pro** and **DaVinci Resolve**.

## Quick Start

The panel is organised in three numbered steps: **Settings → Preview → Apply to timeline**.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the tool">
    Open the **Tools Menu** (bottom left) and select **Jump Cut**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Place the playhead">
    Put the playhead over a representative part of your sequence — one containing both speech and silence.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Preview (free)">
    Click **Preview**. A 15-second sample is analysed and drawn as a waveform: everything shaded **red** will be removed.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Tune the sliders">
    Move the sliders and watch the red zones update **instantly** — no re-analysis needed. Press play to listen to the sample.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Apply">
    Click **Create Jump Cuts**. Your sequence is backed up automatically before anything is cut.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/premieregpt/2Zt28GTa-sn8HrbY/images/jumpcut.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=2Zt28GTa-sn8HrbY&q=85&s=d3159496a9bd3e8155dbf225f4986958" alt="Jump Cut Interface" width="3456" height="2234" data-path="images/jumpcut.png" />

## Step 1 — Settings

| Setting                  | Range       | Default    | What it does                                                            |
| ------------------------ | ----------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Voice Sensitivity**    | 0.10 – 0.90 | **0.50**   | How confident the detector must be that it hears a voice.               |
| **Remove Silences Over** | 0 – 2 s     | **0.20 s** | Silences shorter than this are left alone.                              |
| **Keep Segments Over**   | 0 – 2 s     | **0.20 s** | Speech chunks shorter than this are treated as noise and removed.       |
| **Padding**              | -1 – 2 s    | **0.10 s** | Margin added before and after every kept segment.                       |
| **Split L/R Padding**    | toggle      | off        | Splits Padding into independent **Padding Left** and **Padding Right**. |

<Note>
  **Voice Sensitivity replaces the old "Silence Cutoff" (dB) setting.** It is no longer a volume threshold: the tool detects *voice*, so background noise, room tone or music no longer count as "not silent". Higher value = stricter = cuts more.
</Note>

### Voice Sensitivity

* **0.10 – 0.30** — very permissive. Keeps whispers, soft-spoken delivery, ASMR, quiet interviews. Use when the tool is eating the beginning of your words.
* **0.40 – 0.60** — balanced. Standard talking-head, podcast, tutorial. **Start here.**
* **0.70 – 0.90** — strict. Cuts aggressively; useful in noisy rooms, with air conditioning, street noise or a loud music bed where the detector is too generous.

<Tip>
  If the cut sounds *clipped* — the first syllable is missing — lower the sensitivity before touching padding. If it sounds *sloppy*, with breaths and hesitations surviving, raise it.
</Tip>

### Remove Silences Over

The minimum length a silence must reach before it's worth cutting.

* **0.10 – 0.20 s** — very tight, machine-gun pacing. Great for social/vertical edits.
* **0.30 – 0.60 s** — natural rhythm. Removes the dead air but keeps the breathing room of speech.
* **1 s and above** — only removes the long pauses. Good for interviews where the silences carry meaning.

### Keep Segments Over

Anything shorter than this is not considered real speech: a lip smack, a click, a door, a cough between two sentences. Raise it if isolated noises are kept as tiny orphan clips; keep it low if you have short interjections ("yes", "no", "hm") that must survive.

### Padding

Padding gives each kept segment a bit of air, so cuts don't feel surgical.

* **Positive values (0.05 – 0.30 s)** — the usual case. Extends each segment on both sides.
* **0** — hard, immediate cuts. Maximum tightness, harsher listening.
* **Negative values (down to -1 s)** — shrinks the kept segments, cutting *into* the speech. Only for very aggressive stylistic edits — it will clip words.

<Tip>
  Turn on **Split L/R Padding** to get the most natural result: a **small left padding** (0.05 s, so the attack of the word isn't chopped) and a **larger right padding** (0.15–0.25 s, so the end of the sentence can breathe).
</Tip>

### Presets

The preset bar at the top of Step 1 saves your whole slider configuration under a name and reloads it in one click. Build one per format — *Podcast*, *Reels*, *Interview* — instead of re-tuning every session.

## Step 2 — Preview

The preview analyses a **15-second sample** taken at the playhead and is **free** — it doesn't consume credits, so you can run it as often as you like.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Read the waveform" icon="wave-square">
    Blue = kept. **Red overlay = removed.** The picture reflects your current sliders in real time.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Listen to it" icon="play">
    Hit the green play button, or click anywhere on the waveform to jump there and audition the passage.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  Moving a slider after a preview **does not** require a new analysis — the cuts are recomputed locally and instantly. Only click **Preview** again if you move the playhead to a different part of the sequence.
</Note>

<Tip>
  Preview the hardest part of your footage, not the easiest: the passage where you hesitate, where the room is noisy, or where you speak softly. Settings that survive there will work everywhere.
</Tip>

## Step 3 — Apply to timeline

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create Jump Cuts">
    Analyses the **whole sequence** and applies the cuts. A **backup of your sequence is created automatically** beforehand, so you can always go back.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Delete Disabled Clips (Premiere Pro)">
    Jump Cut disables the silent clips instead of deleting them, so you can review the result. Click **Delete Disabled Clips** to remove them and close the gaps.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Or automate it">
    Tick the checkbox on that same button to **auto-delete** at the end of every run.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  **On DaVinci Resolve**, the *Delete Disabled Clips* control is hidden — and that's expected. Resolve rebuilds a new timeline containing only the kept segments, so there is nothing left to delete.
</Note>

## From the Copilot

You can also just ask in the chat:

> *"Remove the silences from my sequence."*

The Copilot runs the same engine with sensible defaults. Use the panel when you want to see the waveform and dial the pacing in yourself.

## Common Pitfalls

<Warning>
  * **Playhead over a silent or music-only area** → the preview sample contains no speech and looks entirely red. Move it over real dialogue.
  * **Words getting clipped** → lower **Voice Sensitivity**, then raise **Padding Left**. In that order.
  * **Breaths and hesitations surviving** → raise **Voice Sensitivity** and lower **Remove Silences Over**.
  * **Tiny orphan clips left over** → raise **Keep Segments Over**.
  * **Loud music bed under the voice** → voice detection struggles. Mute or lower the music track before running, or push the sensitivity up.
  * **Negative padding** eats into speech by design — it is not a "tighter" setting, it's a destructive one.
</Warning>

<Tip>
  **Recommended starting point** for a talking-head edit: Voice Sensitivity **0.5**, Remove Silences Over **0.3 s**, Keep Segments Over **0.2 s**, Split L/R Padding **on** with **0.05 s** left and **0.20 s** right.
</Tip>