Remove silences and dead air from your videos

PopScript detects long pauses and dead air in your recording and cuts them out automatically. It groups them under Silences, next to Filler words and Repetitions, so you can see what kind of cut each one is.

Silence detection runs on your phone. And because editing is non-destructive, removed silences can be restored and your original footage stays untouched.

• The gap between hitting record and your first word
• The tail after your last word while you reach for the phone
• Dead air between takes when you pause and try a line again
• The long stop while you check your notes or your script

Creators who film in long runs. If you batch five product videos in one sitting, or leave the camera rolling while you figure out your next line, your raw footage is full of dead air.

It's also for coaches and educators recording explainers without a script, and for agencies trimming raw client footage before the real edit starts. Most talking-head raw files are more silence than you think.

Silence reads as nothing happening. On a vertical feed, a video that opens with two seconds of you looking at the lens gives people a reason to swipe.

Trimming the start and end is easy. The hard part is the dead air in the middle: every time you stopped to think. Finding those gaps by eye on a timeline is tedious work. Once they're cut for you, you're just checking the result.

• Finds long pauses and dead air anywhere in the clip, not just at the start and end.
• Cuts them automatically as part of cleanup, together with filler words and repetitions.
• Keeps cuts reversible. Restore anything you want back, and undo or redo as you go.
• Lets you fine-tune in Timeline mode with trim handles if you want a cut tighter or looser.

Silences are the long gaps. For the shorter, natural breaths between sentences, see remove pauses.

Dead air is easy to remove when it's clearly dead air. A few habits make cleanup cleaner.

• Stay quiet when you pause to think. Don't fill it with a hum.
• Stop fully before restarting a line, so the old try and the new one are separate
• Film in a quiet room. Background noise can make a pause not sound like silence.