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I am looking for a solution to cut breaks, silence, pauses during an interview, monologue, vblog. This is often heard in radio programs. Is there any plugin for DavinciResolve?

'Strip Silence' in ProTools

http://techcommtools.com/strip-silence-audition/ - possibly in Audition

Not sure fairlight has anything similar?

Trevor Asquerthian wrote:Not sure fairlight has anything similar?

The standalone Fairlight system provided a "Gate Clips" function which would be the equivalent of the "strip silence" function within ProTools.

Not implemented within Resolve yet unfortunately.

There is a Waves plug-in called De-Breath that will take breaths from interview subjects out, but I'm not a fan of it. Me personally, I do this kind of work manually.

But in Pro Tools, the ability to remove all non-dialogue information from a track and just cut out the silence is very handy. And then in just a couple of quick steps, you can make all the dialogue quickly fade-in and fade-out, so that the transitions are very smooth and imperceptible. I dunno if this is in Fairlight yet.

I love this feature and pro tools and would love it in resolve.

Id also love this to work across video as well, so you could do "youtube style" jump cut edits over an hour of footage, in a manner of seconds.

Is this still missing in 2020?

marcingebus wrote:I am looking for a solution to cut breaks, silence, pauses during an interview, monologue, vblog.

That's called editing. It's done manually.

Well said Jim...my thoughts exactly...'tis always the way I've done it.

I would love to see this feature in 2020 as well. While you can do it manually – there is no artistry in something so technical as removing silence when audio track X falls below X db.

And if it cuts too much – THEN manually go back and fix anything that needs adjusting. But this would save HOURS of time!

One very clever feature in Pro Tools is you can use Strip Silence, which removes very quiet sections inbetween dialogue, and THEN highlight all the clips on a track and add small fades to the beginning and end of each one. This is commonly done for dialogue editing when you don't want each line to abruptly cut in and cut out.

Precisely, Marc. Imagine strip silencing in davinci with linked video and ripple editing them together for a super tight cut within a minute. That’s the dream!!

Yes please

solarflare wrote:Precisely, Marc. Imagine strip silencing in davinci with linked video and ripple editing them together for a super tight cut within a minute. That’s the dream!!

Yes, I have to confess when I was cutting dialogue some years ago, this made things very simple and easy. That is huge for the sound-editing crowd.

Yes, you can remove silence / pauses from video and podcasts. Here is video of how you can import an EDL file made in TimeBolt into Resolve. The software is blistering fast and accurate across frame rates. Handles multiple audio tracks in an MP4. I'd post a video of it working in Resolve but I can't post a URL. I'll post the link in FAQ's on TimeBolt.

Full disclosure I own the software, but works as advertised.

I need to bring in flat audio file track exports from other DAWs for mixing, including dialogue edits, music edits, backgrounds, perhaps even foley, depending on the project.

Getting rid of all the absolutely silent bits would help. I'd understand if this was harder to if this were the first clip-processing tool that had to be developed.