Text-based editing always leaves pauses behind

[TomGregory]

Every time I use text-based editing to delete all pauses, it leaves pauses behind.

I have a simple audio clip.

Here it is in the Text panel after transcribing.

Nice. It's identified some pauses. Let's delete those!

Filter by pauses...

Hit delete all...

OK cool. My 11 second clip is now 6 seconds.

But wait...are there still pauses there?

Oh...still a 0.1 second pause.

Click it and see it to see the pause in the timeline.

Oh that sucks!

For a long video that's a lot of manual clicking and deleting!

What am I missing?

Premiere Pro v25.1.0 (Build 73) on Mac OS 15.2

[caroline_edits]

Thanks for including all the details about your version and OS, super helpful! There are a couple of things we can look into that can explain this.

In the Text panel, open the "..." menu and select Transcript View Options. In the settings menu that appears, there is a slider for pause length. The shortest pause Premiere can allow is .1 seconds, which is what is shown in your screenshots. That .1 second is the smallest amount Premiere can filter by without accidentally chopping off pieces of your audio. Is the .1 second of pause still too much space on your project?

Let us know, we'll help how we can.

Caroline

[TomGregory]

Yes, pause length is set to 0.1 seconds!

After deleting all pauses (using Pauses filter > Delete All) , Premiere Pro still identifies pauses of length 0.1 seconds. 

Here's how that looks in the Text panel.

I can click delete these manually by selecting and hitting delete on the keyboard. But if my timeline has hundreds of such pauses, it's a lot of manual work.

Since Premiere Pro already identifies these pauses, maybe it can delete them automatically?