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Cut the dead air
How to remove silence, ums and long pauses from podcasts, talking-head videos, lectures and Shorts, in the editor you already use or on iPhone.
How Many Filler Words Are Too Many?
What research says about filler words per minute, why we say um and uh, how to count your own rate, and which fillers to cut from a recording.
Podcast loudness: -16 LUFS, -14 LUFS or -18?
Which loudness target to use for a podcast: Apple's -16 LKFS, Spotify's -14 LUFS music figure, AES speech at -18, and why YouTube has no official number.
How to remove silence in Final Cut Pro on Mac and iPad
Final Cut Pro has no built-in silence remover. Delete pauses with range selection and ripple delete, or use SilenceScout or Auto-Editor on Mac.
How to Remove Silence in GarageBand
GarageBand has no automatic silence remover. Cut pauses by hand on Mac, iPhone and iPad, or use Logic Pro's Remove Silence or a dedicated tool.
How to remove silence in iMovie on iPhone and Mac
iMovie has no automatic silence removal. How to find pauses, split and delete them on iPhone and Mac, and when to pre-cut the video before importing.
Remove Silence From Lecture Recordings
Shorten a lecture by cutting pauses or speeding them up. Settings for thinking pauses and board writing, and which quiet parts to keep.
Remove Silence From a Screen Recording
Cut pauses out of iPhone, QuickTime, OBS and Teams screen recordings: what each built-in editor can cut, and settings that keep the cursor smooth.
How to remove silence for Shorts, Reels and TikTok
How to cut pauses from YouTube Shorts, Reels and TikTok videos: where to start the pause length, padding, the 3-minute Shorts rule and 9:16 export.
Remove Silence From a Voice Memo on iPhone
Skip Silence in Voice Memos only hides pauses during playback. How to cut them out of the file, fix a missing Skip Silence, and export a clean memo.
Removing silence from voiceover and audiobooks
How to shorten pauses in narration without breaking ACX rules: room tone instead of digital silence, head and tail spacing, breaths, RMS and file specs.
Silence threshold settings: dB, duration and padding
How to set a silence threshold in dB, minimum silence duration and padding: measure room tone, use starting values, and check cuts by ear.
What is dead air in video and podcasts?
Dead air is unplanned silence in a recording. Where the term comes from, how it differs from a pause or room tone, and how to find and cut it.