Premiere Pro AI Editor: Auto Remove Mistakes and Pauses
Every time I record a video, I make mistakes. It happens when I record a tutorial like this one, and it happens when I read a script off a teleprompter. With a 30-minute or hour-long recording, cleaning that up means watching the whole thing and making every cut by hand, and that takes a lot of time.
Rough Cut, a new tool in the AI Media Machine, does that work for me. It cuts out the mistakes and the pauses, and when I say a line several times, it keeps only the best take. Then it gives me a file I can import into Premiere Pro to finish the video. I think that last part is really important, because many of us already know Premiere Pro well and it works.
How Rough Cut works
Open the AI Media Machine and click Rough Cut, then drop in the raw video you just recorded.
The tool reads the audio first and works out everything that's said in the video. Then it analyzes the recording and makes the edit. If you upload a file you've uploaded before, it recognizes it and asks whether you want to recreate it. I chose to create a new rough cut.
It understands the context of your script. When you or your talent repeat a phrase because of a mistake, it knows the final version is usually the best one, so it keeps that take and deletes the others. Until now, that kind of editing was only possible with a human editor.
It isn't perfect, but it's about 95% accurate. You'll still go in and make some fine tweaks, and maybe add your text effects at the end, but about 95% of the edit is done for you. On average, that saves a lot of time.
What you get back
In the example from the video, Rough Cut removed about 7 minutes of mistakes. It also shows you the lines it removed. I don't usually go into that much detail, but it's nice to be able to see them. The tool estimated the editing time saved at about 56 minutes.
Opening the rough cut in Premiere Pro
Click Download for Premiere Pro to download the project file.
In Premiere Pro, drag that file into the Project panel. This part matters, because Premiere won't read the file if you drop it in the wrong place. You can also bring it in with Premiere's import option, but I prefer drag and drop.
Premiere then shows two items: your original video file and the rough cut sequence. Double-click the sequence and the edit opens on the timeline with all the cuts already made. I use this on every video I shoot, including this one.
If Premiere says it can't find the footage, relink it to the video file you uploaded.
What about DaVinci Resolve?
We're working on a DaVinci Resolve version. It still needs some tweaks, and I'll let you know once it's finalized. The Premiere Pro version already works really well.
Try it
Rough Cut is part of the AI Media Machine, which comes with many other video and animation tools. This one is especially useful if you edit in Premiere Pro. The AI Media Machine is currently available as a lifetime deal at 94% off, with one payment and no subscription.
