Remove silence and getyour pacing back
Every "um", every three-second pause, every breath between takes — gone in one pass. Shorz finds the dead air, cuts it, and leaves the speech tight enough to hold a scrolling audience.
How to use the silence remover in three steps
Un-edited talking-head footage is roughly a third dead air, and that third is where people leave. Manually cutting it is the most mind-numbing job in editing. Shorz detects silences against a threshold you set, cuts them out, and keeps a little padding either side so the result sounds deliberate rather than clipped.
Drop in the recording
Any talking-head video with an audio track — a webcam take, a podcast recording, a screen capture with narration.
Video with speech
Set what counts as silence
Control the minimum gap length, the loudness threshold and how much padding to keep around each phrase. Aggressive for short-form, gentler for a long-form explainer.
Threshold · minimum gap · padding
Get a tightened cut
Shorz removes the gaps and returns a new file — the original is never overwritten. Run it standalone, or let the full Auto Edit pass do it alongside filler-word removal, zooms and captions.
New file, original untouched
Find it in the app under Auto Edit → instruction-driven · MCP single-file tool.
Why Silence Remover in Shorz
Part of a whole edit, not a one-off
Silence removal is one instruction inside Auto Edit. In the same pass Shorz can strip filler words, add zooms, caption every word, place emojis, insert titles and apply transitions — the entire first-pass edit, from one plain-language brief.
Runs inside Auto Edit
Free where it matters
The whole Auto Edit pass — cuts, filler-word removal, silence removal, zooms, subtitles, emojis, titles and transitions — is included in the free weekly allowance: four Auto Edit or Clipping videos a week, no card, never watermarked.
In the free allowance
Who uses it, and for what
Webcam takes
One long ramble becomes a tight, watchable cut.
Podcast video
Strip the pauses without losing the conversation.
Screen recordings
Cut the thinking-out-loud between steps.
Course lessons
Same content, a third shorter.
Shorz speaks MCP
Shorz isn't a locked web app. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini and your assistant can drive it directly — one message instead of a panel full of clicks. You review before anything is published.
See how MCP automation works
You say
“Remove the silences from this recording, keep 150ms of padding, then caption it and export.”
Shorz does
- 1Detect silences above the threshold
- 2Cut the gaps with padding kept
- 3Caption the tightened cut
- 4Export the finished file
Every tool ships with the same promises
They're not separate products with separate bills. One app, one credit balance, one export that belongs to you.
- No subscription — prepaid credits that never expire
- No watermark on anything you export, ever
- Full commercial rights on what you create
- A desktop app for Windows and Mac — your files stay on your machine
- Auto Edit and Clipping: 4 free videos a week, no card
- Drivable from Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini over MCP
Silence Remover questions
No — it cuts silences, not speech, and keeps a configurable amount of padding either side of each phrase so the result doesn't sound clipped. You control the minimum gap length and the loudness threshold.
Filler-word removal is part of the Auto Edit pass, alongside silence removal. Run the whole pass and you get both, plus cuts, zooms, subtitles, emojis, titles and transitions.
Never. Shorz writes a new file and leaves the source untouched, so you can re-run with different settings.
The Auto Edit pass — which includes silence removal, filler-word removal, cuts, zooms, subtitles, emojis, titles and transitions — is included in the free weekly allowance: 4 Auto Edit or Clipping videos a week for signed-in users, no card, source videos up to 30 minutes.
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Cut the dead air out of your footage
Automatic jump cuts on silences and filler words, with padding you control so it never sounds clipped. Included in 4 free videos a week.
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