Auto Remove Silence from Multiple Files | NO PLUGINS | Adobe Premiere Pro
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Automatically remove silent pauses from separate video & audio files in Premiere Pro - no plugins required!
This technique is especially useful if you do any kind of audio editing like podcasts, but also a quick way to jump cut through dead air for vlogs.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:43 Export your timeline audio
00:00:55 Open in Adobe Audition
00:01:08 Scan for silence
00:02:14 Create subclip markers
00:02:53 Add an empty video track
00:03:29 Import into Premiere Pro
00:03:53 Sync the subclips
00:05:10 Delete the silence
Although all the edits are done in Premiere's timeline, we'll first need to scan and mark our audio in Adobe's audio editing software, Adobe Audition. For those of you who would like more tutorials about Adobe Audition, I have a whole course on it over at LinkedIn Learning: bit.ly/LearnAudition
View the video I use as a sample here (from Atomic Abe, these guys are hilarious):
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Paul Murphy (The Premiere Pro)
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Wrote down the steps for myself, so just sharing in case someone needs a little help:
Adobe Premiere
1. Insert video clip into timeline
2. Insert and sync secondary audio source with original video clip
3. Mute video audio track
4. Export media as WAV
Audition
1. Open exported WAV
2. Open Diagnostics panel (Window > Diagnostics)
3. On the Effect Drop Down, select Delete Silence
4. Click on find levels (fine tune if necessary)
5. Click Scan
6. Check to see if clips are actually silent parts of audio
7. Select all clips (Ctrl/Cmd A)
8. Right click and choose Create Markers
9. Open Markers window and make sure first marker is set to 0:00:00
10. Select all markers, right click > Change Marker Types > Subclip
11. Save
Media Encoder
1. Open saved WAV
2. Set export type to Quicktime > Apple ProRes 422 Proxy (fast render)
3. Make sure frame rate matches original video
4. Export
Adobe Premiere
1. Import new video clip
2. Delete video and leave only clips (will be first one on the list of the imported clips)
3. Select all clips
4. Menu > Clip > Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence
5. Select Timecode on Synchronize Point
6. Check Create single multicam source sequence
7. On Track Assignments select Camera Label or Camera Angle
8. Hit OK
9. Open generated clip by holding Ctrl/Cmd double clicking.
10. Lock video track and duplicate audio track (Alt+Shift drag down) to match the amount of tracks on original sequence (3)
11. Unlock video track
12. Select all (Ctrl/Cmd A)
13. Paste into original timeline at 0:00:00
14. Delete clips folder and generated clip
15. Select all clips on timeline
16. Menu > Sequence > Close Gap
17. Voila!
From Premiere Pro, you can right clieck on the AUDIO FILE and SEND TO AUDITION, so you don't need to export manually at the beginning
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD...
This is going to save an absolutely just ungodly amount of time while editing gaming footage. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much, Ive searched for exactly THIS!
All the other videos of other youtubers dont explain this. Its a complex problem, so thank you very much for solving it and showing us the solution here!
I just can't believe that both this video and this channel are not so popular yet!
So underrated!
I saved me hours of cutting clips. Thank you!!
Cheers Seba, appreciate the support!
I've followed the other tutorial on doing this, this one is a little more involved at first glance, but worked out nice. Just got to get all the steps down in my head now. Thanks!
Man if I knew this trick 4-5 years back, I would have saved almost a year of editing work. Thanks a lot
I feel the same way! (but go back 20 years)
Finally, Thanks for the Amazing Tutorials Man, Can't wait for this One!
Had to fiddle with each step a few times but ultimately I got this to work, saved me probably 20 hours. TYSM!
Thank you so much, Paul! Cut my workflow down from 6hrs to 2hrs. Thanks!
Fantastic! Use those 4 hours to do something fun.
omg! Thanks a lot. Man you are the winner! Keep it going! Thank you so much. So much time will be saved now.
This is extremely helpful! Thanks so much!
Amazing!!! Thank you very much!
Tremendously helpful, thank you!
Thought provoking solution to the problem. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Justin!
This video is gold. It can save many people a lot of money these days and can bring down many startups in 2024
Thank you very much this is gold!!
Thank you!! You are my hero. This is such a useful technique. No one else is talking about this technique.
Glad to hear it's useful!
This video was awesome. It really helped me in a project. Thanks!!
Freaking hell mate. You are just a blessing in disguise. Hands down the number one thing that saved hours on my workflow. You're the best!
Massive, thank you!
man you just saved me days, thank you so much for the tutorial and for still answering comments to this day
You're welcome Felipe!
Wonderful technique. Love it.
Thanks!
Incredible. I followed it and it worked great
Genius! Thank you
i have been tryna figure out how to do this right since this morning and finally got it you are the best
Thanks - good luck with your videos!
Thank you so much for sharing selflessly, helping me solve a lot of precious time
This may be the only video on youtube with zero down votes, that says something. Thank you!
Thanks! Much appreciated!
You're welcome Shiffo!
Finally found this video, THANK YOU
you are a champion, i have been manually deleting silences on my 30+ minute clips for months now
Thanks, glad to hear it was useful!
Great work! Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Note: On PC, the Apple render to the .mov does not work with all the subclips. I had to render in AME as a MPEG4 file, making sure my framerates matched. Hope this helps PC users
note: you also need to create a foldre for all the subclips otherwise it doesn show in the file manager panel on the lower left
Thank you! This helped me so much!
nice, thanks!
this is genius, thank you so much
This is HUGE!! Merci beaucoup :)
De rien, Lucile !
Thanks a lot againn! you gave me happiness
This makes ME happy!
thanks a lot!!!
the most important part: 02:30
thank you!
thank you so much!
You're welcome Tanapoom!
I can not wait haha
Didn't know i needed adobe audition untill now! 👀
great video, what used to take me one full day of editing now only took me about an hour
This video deserves a million likes! I can't thank you enough, now there is time left to live! 😂😂😂 Thank you! Thank you so much!
Glad to hear it!
huge thanks dear
Most welcome 😊
I knew that your work flow (this combination of premiere media encoder and audition) was possible but I wasn't able to apply it, I just had a feeling (obviously I missed some specific details). The most similar Premiere app/plug in that can do what you show is Time Bolt. I think that there are no tutorials that show this exquisite work flow. I still watch this tutorial to learn the logic in the procedures. Finally, I followed your instructions and the results were great!
That's great to hear! I've only played around with Time Bolt a little bit. I need to play with it some more, but really liked what I saw.
Lifesaver!
This is Perfect😃✌ thanks
You're welcome Esteem, I'm glad it's helpful!
omg this is better than the last video, thanks senpai!
I'm glad you like it Somrat!
I just press Delete All after creating markers since I only work with clean audio files and save the file without silence. Takes less than 1 minute and removes the need of all of the other steps. Thank you!
Yep, that's the best way to do it if you only have audio files and you don't need to adjust the cuts at a later stage.
Cool and clever!
Thanks dave!
Dude.... You Rock... you just saved me doing 205 hand edits trying to fix the Dead Silence problem for ACX.... Thank you... Drinks on me next time you're in LA... Joe
Thanks Joe! Glad this helped you avoid any number of hand edits 💪
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thanks man amazing 💖😍😍
You're welcome 😊
Oh gosh you saved my life !! Thank you !! I recorded a 5 hours podcast... I was already depressed ^^'
Glad to hear it!
You are great!
Thanks SuperTeacher!
This video will literally save me so many hours of work I feel guilty that I got it for free.
Glad to hear to it - and share with others!
AWESOME 💥
Thanks 🔥
After removing the silence is there a way to also create a milti - cam editing sequence to swap between cameras?
Sure thing - this should help: ua-cam.com/video/aiVYRuWohZI/v-deo.html
Genius !
This is great! Unfortunately, Audition cannot handle videos longer than about 30 minutes in my experience. I've found anecdotes elsewhere online that suggest the same. Seems like a very basic inconvenience Adobe would have fixed by now.
Thanks! I have not experienced this issue in Audition - although if you are importing long videos, I recommend scanning them in 20 minute batches.
me too!
BRO
THIS IS INSANELY F****** SMART OMG BRO
Definitely a day saver, people need to know about this strat, jesus
Thanks! "Day saver" - I love that.
MERCI MERCI !
Solid gold, thank you! Now I'm going to be the "quiet on set" police
I know, I do the same thing! A handy tip is to apply Effects > Amplitude & Compression > Dynamics and set the Auto Gate before you scan your audio. The Noise Gate preset is a good place to start. This will silence anything below a certain level, and it's good for excluding sounds like background noises, coughs and breaths from your audio.
Omg thank you so much for doing this also for multiple files, I was on the brink of despair today.... This is gonna give me so much extra life time 🥳
One question: Does this also work for Davinci Resolve?
Thanks! I've never tested it with Davinci - if you find out, let me know.
This is brilliant..! I wish Premiere has this ability built-in rather than making us rely on other adobe tools..
Agreed!
1st time i saw your video & thank you, thank you for your video & knowledge... Like & subscribe from my side
That's kind, thanks Manish!
hey there. thanks for the video. I am curious if it is possible while recording audio to automatically remove silence while saving a recorded audio?
Not that I'm aware Alexa, that sounds like something that needs to be processed after the recording.
I have been using the technique for almost a year. I kept having videos where large portions of the audio track were detected as silence. Since a few days the error is in almost every video. It also does not work in Audition to scan in 20 minute segments. Even if I split the audio track in Audacity into several files, which only last 20 minutes, the error occurs. Does anyone have a solution?
Rather than breaking up the file, I usually just scan big files in 20 minute chunks - select 20 mins, scan, add markers, then select the next 20 mins.
@@ThePremierePro Unfortunately, this does not work. I think it has something to do with the "Signal is above" value determined by "Find Levels". If I increase this value by hand by 10 dB, many false positives are gone (but not all). Does anyone know a solution that fixes any error?
Hi this is very helpful! but is there any way to just remove only the long silence? exclude the short one? like breathing. Please
Sure thing, just set the minimum silence to a longer duration.
I use a mobile phone, do you have an app that supports this please?
Awesome video - subscribed. Just to confirm, if there are two audio track of different people speaking, from two mics, so the audio wave thing will look different. And I want to remove clips only where both tracks are silent, will this work?
Welcome aboard! That is all correct. By the way, if you're also editing between cameras for each speaker, you may find this tutorial helpful: ua-cam.com/video/7C-u3VTvBOQ/v-deo.html
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when i upload my video the sub clips in the premier pro it shows them as a single video please help
Make sure that your Project panel is in List View before you import.
I can't get it to work - even after scanning the dB levels, it just highlights big chunks from the video - like 30 seconds of audio with my voice. It's a long file (over 1 hour). Maybe the length is an issue?
Length is the issue - I recommend scanning in selections of 20 mins.
I do voice over and I want to remove gaps or pauses(silent gaps) in my 1 hr audio file..please tell me how can I do that..Beacuse manually cutting gaps takes 12 hrs or more for me..please help me out
This method is good for that: ua-cam.com/video/D4J471xZiJU/v-deo.html
Hello bro, so long. You know I'm cramming this, but unlike before, now my pc is very slow doing it, It's a clip of only 12 minutes and I can barely move it. and it generates up to 30 gb of ram... Any ideas?
At what stage does it start slowing down?
@ThePremierePro What's up bro? I already solved it, before it worked perfectly, so it had to be something new, I deactivated the automatic transcription and everything was perfect 🔥🔥
@@UstedEstaAqui Great to hear! Glad you fixed it. Hope all is going well with your channel.
Do you have a follow up on this about trouble shooting when it cuts off mid sentence or is missing quiet parts?
I have two suggestions (well three actually , but two of them are free): 1) scan longer files in 20 minute batches 2) add the Analog Delay effect before you scan to add padding to the end of each clip 3) This method is easier if you can afford it ua-cam.com/video/FM7R-gJRjUI/v-deo.html
@@ThePremierePro Thanks!
@2:08 You recommend double checking the silences in the list. What if some are incorrect, like it grabbed a sigh I wanted to keep? Thanks for the tutorial btw. Audition is scary
Good question - I would recommend creating the markers first, and then deleting the incorrect ones from the Markers panel.
Unfortunately I can't get this to work for really long clips (1 hour long).. only when I select a smaller section and scan does it find the silence.. otherwise it just finds 30 second chunks that include silence and audio.. any tips?
There's a bug in Audition that causes inconsistent results for scans that are over 20 mins long - the way around it is to scan your file in 20 minute chunks.
@@ThePremierePro Thank you!!! game changer. Much appreciated.
I’m having a problem, when I open the multi camera source sequence into my timeline, it shows all of the silent moments in dark green and the talking in lighter green. I have to manually delete each individual audio frame before getting my timeline to be just the silent moment timecodes. What am I doing wrong?
If I had to guess, it sounds like your fist marker might not be a subclip marker. At any rate, you can delete all clips with the same clip label color by selecting one of the clips in the timeline and then choosing Edit > Label > Select Label Group, then press delete.
Two other people mentioned this same problem.
No subclips import.
I checked and there still on the saved audio export from audition.
And even on the media encoder export.
All markers are marked as subclips.
Someone mentioned that you had to be in 'list view' in premiere, then import the file. Worked for them I guess but still no cigar for me.
UPDATE:
Actually that list view thing DOES work!
I got confused cuz it seems like their is two different ways to 'list view'
Do it by hitting the icon near the bottom of the media panel.
Good to hear you got it working!
@@ArtParlor Thanks pal had same issue, odd that changing it to list view allows for the import, wouldn't have figured that out myself!
Any way to delete silence in multitrack?
This method works with multitrack.
@@ThePremierePro my question doesn't relate to the topic of the video. I have to delete silence from 100 multiple files simultaneously. Unfortunately, only Audacity does it with Truncate Silence.
@@wonderfulnewssv Do you mean delete the silence and then save a new version of the file? Why does it need to be done simultaneously?
@The Premiere Pro Thanks, but after closing the gap, i realize that there is a very weird noise between every two tracks and there are a huge number of those noises as the huge number of subclips have been deleted. What is the solution for that and do you have any video to show how to avoid that ? Thanks
Hi Mania, I'm not sure I understood your problem. Can you describe the weird noise or email me a sample of it?
@@ThePremierePro it was the audio pops after cutting the tracks.
@@mania7927 You may need to add a short crossfade between each edit point to smooth out the transition. You can easily do this by selecting all your clips and choosing Sequence > Apply Audio Transition.
Any way to do this in fl studio
I don't know FL Studio, but it seems like it shares marker formats with Audition, so it might work.
after i click scan nothing shows. im referring to 1:56 can anyone help me
Sounds like you need to adjust your Silence and Audio levels.
I dont need this algorithm for multiple video files below each other, I need it for multiple video files BEHIND each other, so I can skip the part 4:40-5:10.
4:32 Everything till there has worked, but here I didnt get seperated video clips, instead I got already a mix of the non silent parts in blue and the silent parts marked in green.
5:23 The pasting doesnt work, if I press controll and v there, premiere does nothing.
Also, if I try to delete only the silent parts at 5:36, which are marked in blue in my timeline, while the not silent parts are marked in green, it deletes all and it doesnt matter, which one of that two in the project window I delete, it always delets my hole timeline then.
How can this be fixed?
Ive now fixed this issue after a lot of trying: The part 4:40-5:10 of youre video still isnt needed.
4:32 Its OK, that there are no seperated video clips, its even better, that there are the clip mix in marked blue silent and marked green not silent parts. Click on a blue ("Iris") one and then go on edit and "Select label group", after that press shift key and delete to delete and fill the gap at once.
After that create a new sequence with the correct video solution (for example UHD) and paste the hole thing in there.
There shouldn't be any green clips (i.e. audio only clips) - you should only be importing the video file that you exported out of Media Encoder.
Hello, I got different problem. When i upload the video to adobre premiere...I noticed that it removes all silence moments by itself and becasue of that video and audio is desynch and for some last second i have just silence in audio. Any idea how to turn it off? I want these silence moments or I want remov both, audio and video...now it jsut removes audio and video is kept as original. In other programms I don't have such a problem.
Premiere Pro will remove pauses using the Text panel, but I'm not aware of a setting that does this automatically after importing media. If you're experiencing audio and video desynchronization due to the removal of silence, it might be caused by another issue.
I don't know why but when I delete the .mov file all the clips delete and just hold the silence part
Make sure that you use Delete Silence and not Mark Audio in Audition.
For some reason, when I click "Scan," it detects way too much as silence. I found out that when I select a small portion of the file and scan it, it works fine, but when I do it on the whole file it basically doesn't work at all. It also says "664 problems detected, 0 problems repaired." What do I do?
This is a known bug in Audition - the solution is to scan in 20 min batches. Also, ignore the '0 problems repaired' message, that's only relevant if you're trying to delete silence inside Audition.
From Premiere Pro, you can right clieck on the AUDIO FILE and SEND TO AUDITION, so you don't need to export manually at the beginning
it is very hactic
When you create the multi-camera source sequence, it puts all of your markers on a single video and single audio track. When I attempt to do the same, it creates a separate audio track for each marker. If I have 100 markers, the new sequence it creates will have 100 tracks. Why is this happening? I'm new, sorry!
Make sure you tick 'Create single multicam source sequence' and choose either 'Camera Label' or 'Camera Angle'
you have saved me so much time
nevermind i can't get this to work. Everytime I try to import into Premiere the timecodes aren't lining up.
Seems to work fine on 30FPS but on 60FPS is doesn't.
What is the issue with 60fps footage?
@@ThePremierePro When i follow these steps and create the multi cam the video the length of multicam is longer than the original video. I can record me performing the task and then upload to give you a visual if you would like.
@@ThePremierePro Here is a video of me performing the task. ua-cam.com/video/VETTH0pOMvQ/v-deo.html The original video is 19 minutes. The video rendered out of media encoder is 19 minutes. When i do teh multi cam function its 34 minutes.
Right click there in no change marker type. Please help
Make sure you're right-clicking over the name of the marker, not the timecode.
@@ThePremierePro thank you very much sir 🙏🏻🙏🏻
i can not get the file to import into premeire with all of the subclips. It's loading as a single audio file that is just as long as the original file. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
@@TheBaesa yes. And it feels ridiculous but maybe it will work for you too. When I was importing the file into the project, I was dragging and dropping it. That doesn't work. Going through the import menu and selecting the file made it work. I repeated it several times just to make sure I wasn't crazy. 😅
@@JCLW1027_2_ thanks man, I could solve it! It was doin that and render with Media encoder, does not work rendering with other program!
@@TheBaesa glad that helped!!👏👏
@@JCLW1027_2_ Bro you just saved me! It worked. I had the exact same issue...
@@prestonjenson 😂 glad it did!
when i tried exporting the subclip video to Premiere, it only shows up as one video. I wonder what happened?
Make sure your Project panel is in List view (not Icon view).
@@ThePremierePro thanks a lot, it seems to work well now
If I'm working with strictly audio and not video is there a way to just simply delete all the Silence from within Adobe audition?
Absolutely - just click the Delete All button after you've scanned for silence.
@@ThePremierePro is that like a ripple delete where it moves the clips together to avoid gaps?
@@basspigNo, in the Waveform editor in Audition, there are no clips, so it will remove the selected audio from the audio file. In the Multitrack editor, you can emove silence using clips.
@@ThePremierePro Wow! I tried it in Audition and it was straightforward and very easy and FAST! Thank you! Just what I needed for making speech datasets for voice model training.
Hey, it seems that every body gets it. I tried to figure it out but impossible to get subclips when I export from Audition to Media Encoder then to Premiere Pro.
Before sending to Media Encoder, open the audio file in Audition and make sure that your subclip markers saved to the file.
Also having this problem; the wav has the markers when I open it in audition, but after putting it through the media encoder, it doesn’t.
Make sure you’re using a video format that supports markers, and switch your Project panel to List Mode before you import the video file.
@@ThePremierePro Thanks so much! I was encoding using the same settings as you, but I wasn’t in list mode and that made all the difference. I’m very new to this whole thing and your video is really helping me out. My videos have been full of dead air up to this point but it looks like the new one will be 30 mins shorter thanks to this technique!
Your tip for scanning the audio in 20 min chunks also got me over a hurdle!
Thank you again! I’ll post here again with the link to my new vid using your work flow.
@@TheMattrking This makes me very happy! Looking forward to seeing it.
Wish I had this trick when I was a AE
i love you so much Bro. hahahahahahahaha thanks a lot