Automatically Remove Silence from Clips

I record tutorials using OBS. I have been using Audition, following the steps listed in this video, to automatically remove the silence from recordings to be edited in Premiere Pro. This works wonderfully for these recordings and saves a ton of time editing.

I've recently started recording a new course and have 10 hours of raw footage across 16 MP4 files. Auto-removing the silence from each 16 of these clips is a repetitive task. I had the idea of merging the clips using FFMpeg's concatenate command and running the silence-removal process just once to produce one 10 hour MP4 file with silence removed. Again, this works fabulously but the issues start when I begin importing into premiere.

The merged footage has almost 6000 subclips that will often crash the app when importing in Premiere. If it doesn't crash, the project size becomes enormous and takes an incredibly long time to load / is susceptible to crashing. If I use the silence-removal process on each clip individually and import them all separately, the project is unaffected and performs like normal.

How would you go about this process? Auto-removing the silence from each clip is a repetitive task that can be reduced by merging all the files into one. Is there a way to do so that won't crash Premiere Pro and bloat the project?

Cheers

Kyle

Extra details:

MP4 File Size(s) before + after concatenating: 67.1GB

16880kbps

PC specs:

32GB ram

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Intel Core i7-4770