Key takeaways
- Short pauses keep the rhythm; long ones lose viewers.
- Fillers like “um” and “uh” are cut, real words stay.
- Captions move with the cuts.
In a conversation, pauses and “um”s are normal. In a 40-second clip they're where people swipe away. Cutting them makes the speaker sound sharper and the clip a few seconds shorter.
What gets cut
- Filler sounds: um, uh, er, hmm (and the common Hindi ones).
- Silences longer than about half a second. Shorter gaps stay, so the speech keeps its natural rhythm.
- Nothing else: words like “like” or “matlab” are real words, so they stay.
In AiHopper
In a clip project, under “Look of every clip”, switch on “Remove pauses and filler words”. It uses the transcript that was already made, so it costs nothing extra, and the captions are moved onto the shorter clip.
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