The Easiest AI Video Editing Setup (No Claude Code Required)

This video I want to walk through one of the simplest ways to take a lot of the manual parts of editing off of your hands with AI. Now in other videos on this channel, we've covered some of the more advanced kind of custom scaffolding custom. infrastructure ways to do that in this video i just want to walk through one of the most simple off the shelf do the manual splicing remove silences remove bad takes kind of all of that layer of work using an off the shelf solution that you can set up in a few minutes i am not sponsored or endorsed by the tool that i'm going to show you it is really easy i use it personally And if you don't use AI for editing, I promise you, it is such a world of difference that will save you a ton of time. And so I want to show you this by just going ahead and doing it on a sample clip. So this is a talking head video. This is, what is it, 10 minutes to 17, so about seven minutes long of me talking. And this should be about a three minute clip after I finished editing on it, once you remove the silences and the bad takes. motion graphics captions all of that we've covered in depth in a lot of other videos and we will touch on that here too but i want to focus on the first part of that process and doing that completely with ai so i have the audio track as well i'm going to go ahead and sync those to start off so let's go ahead right click we'll click on synchronize audio track channel one that'll process now we have synced up our mic audio with our video file i'm going to go ahead Unlink the video footage, relink the video now with the synchronized mic file, and now we're good to get started. We have our base clip here, and you can already see here, right, a lot of these gaps are just silences. So I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to set in and out points on this main track, and then the tool that we're going to use is called AutoCut. You can install that just by searching AutoCut and downloading it, and then right here under Extensions and Window in Premiere Pro, I'm going to go ahead and select AutoCut. Now, there are a ton of tools here. We're going to have a three step process here. The first one is going to be removing silences with AI. I'm going to click silences and select in and out points right here. So it's just the clip in this segment of the track. We're going to go ahead and make that audio layer to reflect where this audio clip is. And I'll go ahead and click. Validate. Now the noise threshold should be set automatically by AI, so I just turn that on. You can go ahead and mess with the millisecond kind of duration here to just determine how quick the cuts are. I'd say just play around with that yourself and then we'll go ahead and hit cut and delete. Before we do that let's hear a quick word from the sponsor of today's video. 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Now, of course, early stage means risk adoption could take time and nothing is guaranteed. You should always do your own research, do your own diligence on investments to see if they're potentially a fit. So if you want to dig into that diligence on Canabix Technologies, again, that is ticker BLO on the CSE and BLOZF on the over the counter markets. And we'll also leave their investor presentation in the description. They're really cool technology. Big thanks to Canabix for sponsoring this segment of the video. Okay so we're back. Let's go ahead and click cut and delete silences and then we'll be able to see AutoCut actually work in the timeline here and make all of those cuts for us. That would have taken manually you know 10, 15, 20 plus minutes right there to do. So if we jump back into AutoCut we can see the silences are finished. So now if we jump into the video you can see here of those silences, those pauses are gone. Now, step two with AI, what we're going to do is go to the left here and go to auto cut. And so what this is gonna do is remove basically bad takes. Very useful tool, speaking from a lot of personal time spent doing that manually. So we'll jump over here again, we'll click in and out points. We'll select audio track two. So let's validate, we'll select English, and then we're going to wait for the audio to transcribe because this is going to be based on transcript of the video. So let's give it a second. With that, that's done. Now it's gonna use AI to detect what is actually a bad take. And what's really useful about this system specifically is it doesn't need an exact retake, right? It is going to, because it's using AI, kind of intelligently say, this was said twice, we should delete the first one. And you can see that right here. For example, this line was, you should always do diligence before you invest. You should always do your own research. And so those are not the same lines, but because it's doing this with some kind of model on the back end that's intelligent, it can go ahead and find that. So this looks really good to me. This is, again, a third, a half of the video overall that we're going to remove. take here so we'll just click cut sequence and then we can see on the timeline all of those that we removed. So our seven minute track just became a let's see about a two and a half minute to three minute track and that took about 30 seconds total. That is why I always say, you absolutely should be using AI for editing. It doesn't have to do everything, but it can remove some of these more laborious, more menial parts of the process. And then we get into the additions, right? That's just kind of the base track. Something else I like to do if you want to is auto zoom. That's going to add add punches. Let's go ahead and do that quickly. Let's set our in and out points. Validate, let AI determine where it should add kind of zooms on the talking head footage. You can play around with these settings. Click Apply Zoom. And while this is working again, then we can start thinking about additions. What kind of motion graphics, B-roll, captions, subtitles do we want on top of the video? And you can also do all of that, if you want to, with AI. We can see that finished in 26 seconds. We jumped into the timeline. This adjustment track was added. With all of the zooms, so now you can see there, this is really fast, but all of those zooms have So like I was saying, if we jump back here, there are a lot of tools within AutoCut that can do that. There's AutoCaptions, which is really good, and they do have your more advanced motion graphics style captions. What this tool does not have are motion graphics, and there's other videos on this channel where I cover how to do motion graphics now with AI. Chatcut is a really good solution there. Also Higgsfield and then Claude are kind of my top three tools. To create motion graphics with so we'll link some kind of videos around here if you want to check those out. But overall, that's what I wanted to get across in this video of using this sequence of tools to prep that kind of footage in your timeline. And then there's a whole other world here. We'll get into it once you're familiar. That's the video. I hope you find it useful. We have about 1000 other videos like this on the channel if you want to check them out, but I appreciate you being here. And I'll see you in the next one. Cheers