Suggestion for the New DaVinci Resolve 20 Release

In the beta release of DaVinci Resolve 20, a silence removal tool for audio was introduced. However, in its current formI don’t find it as useful as it could be. Itwould be far more powerful if this feature were comprehensive—workingnot only onaudio but also on videoand available directly on the Cut page with the following options:

1. Aligned cuts: when specifying where to remove silences in the audio, allow corresponding cutsin the video track—even if the video isn’t automatically deleted—to simplify manual cleanup afterward.

2. Full automation: automatically trim the audio, cut the video, and delete theempty gaps left by the silences. This setup would make the editing workflow much fasterand more efficient.

I’m not suggesting that the second option be the tool’s default behaviorbut rather an available choice for users. This enhancement would greatly speed up both editingand silence removal, offering a convenience that would surpass nearly any other editing software.

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Worst of all is the tool’s behavior once you apply silence removal: after selecting the volume threshold, it deletes the audio but leaves an empty gap. When you try to make a manual cut at that point, the cut tool doesn’t snap exactly to the audio boundary—as if the audio doesn’t respect frame limits. This makes video trimming extremely tedious and, for me, practically impossible, since I’d have to cut the video and realign every audio clip. It’s far quicker to do it by hand, which in many cases renders this tool useless.

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There is a separate forum for Feature Requests.

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Best practice is to search first, to see if someone already asked. If not, post one idea per thread with a very brief description of the idea in the thread's title.