auto-editor
WyattBlue/auto-editor · Nim · Unlicense
Effort-free video editing: it cuts the dead air for you.
auto-editor is a battle-tested CLI that removes silence and still sections from video automatically — with margins, speed ramping, and per-track control. Scriptable, chunkable and fast enough for pipelines; zero AI API calls.
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Setup at a glance
pip install auto-editor Deep dive
auto-editor is a command-line video editor that removes the dead air: silence, pauses and awkward gaps are detected and cut automatically, so a raw recording becomes a tight cut without ever opening a timeline.
It is deliberately generous about hand-off — besides rendering the final file it can export to DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, ShotCut and Kdenlive project formats, or a plain clip sequence, so a human editor takes over exactly where the automation stopped.
The whole tool is public-domain (Unlicense), installs as a single pip package, and every threshold — margin, silence length, which audio track drives the cut — is a flag you can tune per project.