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kellykrazychic
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January 5, 2026
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Pause deletion should have a "reduce to" duration setting, leaving a breath between removed pauses

  • January 5, 2026
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Problem: When using the pause filter and deleting silences, Premiere Pro deletes the WHOLE pause, leading to a very unnatural flow of speech between sentences. 

Fix: Include a "reduce to" duration feature that doesn't delete the whole pause, but leaves a specified length of pause (for example, reducing a 2-second pause to 0.5 seconds instead of the way it reduces it to 0.0 seconds now)

 

The trim multiple clips feature to add frames back is a terrible workaround for two reasons: 1) if there are already cuts in the sequence, you can't isolate the deleted pauses.  2) There's no control to leave frames based on the amount of space deleted.   For example, if I find all pauses that are 5 seconds or more, I want to leave 1 second of pause.  Then, to find all pauses 2 seconds or more, i want to reduce those down to 0.5 seconds. 

I'm frustrated that with the number of complaints about the delete pauses feature leading to unnatural speach flow that this wasn't fixed by now. 

It takes way too much work manually adding back breathing room between 100's of deleted pauses with the way the feature works now. 

1 reply

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 11, 2026

@kellykrazychic,

 

Upvoted. There are many refinements/additions that would be useful.

 

There are other feature requests around these issues. I suspect the developers are actively working on these types of issues. For example, the censored words filter provides the option to add an effect (a sound) to put in place of the censored word. And it allows for (really requires) a custom word list.

 

Stan