Your takes are 20–40% dead air. Cut it in one click.
The free engine that does this speaks in thresholds and command lines. SilenceCut gives it a face: pick the video, pick a cutting style, click — then read a report measured on the output file.
Talking head — standard for everyday YouTube and course videos
Short-form — tight for Shorts / Reels / TikTok pacing
Lecture / interview — gentle — keeps natural pauses, cuts only dead air
Optional loudness normalization to −16 LUFS in the same pass
Verified, not vibes
Seeded 9-second take (3s tone, 3s silence, 3s tone): cut to 6.5s — 2.5s of dead air removed, silence 3.0s → 0.4s, loudness −11.8 → −15.9 LUFS, all measured on the output.