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P0stup
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August 7, 2025
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Feature Request: Apply Silence Detection and Removal Only Between In/Out Points

  • August 7, 2025
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Dear Adobe,

Please explain why in the year 2025, after multiple AI updates and workflow "improvements," I still can't apply silence detection only between In and Out points on a timeline?


The current limitations:

  • Silence detection runs on the entire sequence, ignoring In/Out.

  • No way to apply cleanup just to a selected range or lassoed clips.

  • No distinction between awkward pauses and intentional beats unless we cut, nest, or play XML games.


Real-world use case:

I'm editing a long interview with an ESL speaker.
They pause mid-sentence, stutter, drop filler words — but sometimes take intentional dramatic pauses for emphasis or topic shifts.

I don’t want to kill all pauses. I just want to:

  • Tighten mid-sentence dead air

  • Remove “uh, um, like” automatically

  • Preserve pacing and story flow

  • Apply this only to a selected chunk using In/Out points

Is that really too much to ask from software that costs this much?

1 reply

Community Manager
September 17, 2025

Hi! this is Adolfo from Adobe. You can remove silences and filler words using the Text Based Editing feature in Premiere. Have you tried that? Let me know if you have any questions.

P0stup
P0stupAuthor
Participant
September 18, 2025
Yes I am well aware of all of that, I want to be able to lasso and ideally
hit a hot key that can remove the dead air or lasso a clip and also a
separate hotkey to remove the filler and be able to complete this from the
sequence without going back to the text panel. Or tighten long gaps instead
of remove the whole thing and bunch words together, like a tighten option
to a set duration where it uses the most silent portion of dead air between
two gaps that are identified by myself.

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Joel M Pfeiffer