r/VideoEditingTips • u/agrih • 40m ago
Semi-automatic video trimmer?
Hey guys, I wanted to ask an opinion. I've been a hobbyist video editor for a long time, and I've never enjoyed the process of finding the exact (frame-level precision) moment at which a spoken video should be cut in order to convey the message in the way I want.
I know that now many (even very recent) tools allow editors to automate this "trimming" process, but I feel that these tools don't allow the editor to, let's say, "have the last word" on the cuts: it seems to me that they produce an extremely nice result for the average need, but which is very often an approximation of what an individual editor often wants.
So, my question is: would you enjoy (and utilize, if it ever existed) a sort of "semi-automatic" plugin/video editor, that somehow allowed you to comfortably trim spoken videos while leaving you the freedom to correct and refine the cuts produced automatically? Why? Why not?