Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro retake remover: cut false starts and filler words

Q: What does Retakes cost?

Retakes comes with the one mouzeclick plan, ₹499 / US$25 a month or ₹4,999 / US$249 a year, which also includes the silence remover, captions, timeline tools and all 22 extensions . Try it free for 3 days with no card. Retakes needs Windows. See pricing .

Updated 2026-10-31 · by the mouzeclick team · Also in Español, Português (Brasil), Bahasa Indonesia

A Premiere Pro retake remover works from a transcript: it finds each sentence that was started again, keeps the final read and cuts the earlier tries. Premiere has no automatic one, so in Premiere you select false starts in the transcript yourself. mouzeclick Studio's Retakes tab does it on Windows: it strikes through every restart, keeps the last take and can also cut um, uh and words said twice.

Retakes keeps the last take of every restarted sentence; earlier tries are struck through before anything is cut
Um and uh, and words said twice, are optional and start switched off
The transcript comes from Whisper on your computer, and speech it skipped is listened to again, so a false start isn't lost
One press removes everything, keeps a copy of the sequence, and captions made afterwards still line up
Retakes is Windows only. Premiere's own text-based editing can delete “uh” and “umm” in its 18 languages

Can Premiere Pro remove repeated takes on its own?

Not automatically. Premiere's text-based editing shows you the transcript and deletes any words you select, which is the manual way to cut a retake. Adobe's notes describe automatic detection for pauses and for the filler words “uh” and “umm”; we found nothing in them that finds a sentence you started twice.

The manual way in Premiere

Transcribe the sequence in the Text panel (Window › Text) and make sure it's a text-based editing transcript, not a static one.
Read it with the audio playing. A retake usually looks like the same five or six words twice in a row, the first copy trailing off.
Select the earlier try in the transcript.
Delete it and choose Extract to close the gap, or Lift to leave one.

It works, and it costs nothing beyond Premiere. The catch is the transcript itself. Speech models like to tidy speech up, and a half-finished sentence followed by the full one is exactly what can come out as one clean line. If the false start isn't in the transcript, you can't select it. Read with your ears, not only your eyes.

How do I remove filler words like um and uh in Premiere Pro?

In Premiere, filter the transcript to Filler words, then delete them all or one at a time, choosing Extract to close the gaps. Adobe detects “uh” and “umm” and calls the detection language agnostic, so it works in all 18 Speech to Text languages. A transcript made before filler detection arrived won't show fillers until you transcribe again.

In mouzeclick Studio, switch on Um and uh in the Retakes tab. It starts off, so a first pass only touches restarts. Other fillers such as “like”, “you know” or “basically” you select yourself in the transcript, and they go in the same cut; Retakes doesn't search for them, and Premiere's detection stops at “uh” and “umm”.

Don't strip every um, though. Some carry timing, a speaker thinking before a real answer, and cutting all of them can make a calm person sound rushed. Review the list before it goes.

How does mouzeclick Retakes find a restarted sentence?

It reads the transcript and looks for a sentence that starts again; the earlier try is struck through and the last one stays. Three things make that work:

The transcript is made on your computer. Retakes uses Whisper, the open speech model behind the Studio's auto captions, and the Studio listens to your clips on your computer, so the audio isn't uploaded.
False starts are listened to again. Speech that Whisper skipped gets a second listen, so a sentence you started twice shows up twice instead of being smoothed into one.
One cut for everything. Restarts, the optional um and uh and words said twice, and any words you select yourself go in one Remove. A copy of the sequence is kept, and captions you make afterwards still line up.

This is why a transcript beats the waveform for retakes: on the waveform a false start looks just like a good sentence; in the transcript you can read it.

How do I remove repeated takes with mouzeclick, step by step?

Open the Retakes tab, choose what goes, read the struck-through transcript and press Remove. In detail:

Open Window › Extensions › mouzeclick Studio and choose the Retakes tab. The Studio is one of the panels mouzeclick installs into Premiere.
Choose what goes: Retakes, plus Um and uh and Words said twice if you want them. Those two start off.
Read the transcript it shows. Each earlier try is struck through and the last take stays, with a count such as “2 retakes and 1 um found”.
Select any other words you want gone and they join the same cut.
Press Remove. Everything is removed in one go and a copy of the sequence is kept.

Order matters. The Studio's own demo goes Silence, Retakes, Captions, then Zoom every other clip: the silence remover clears the gaps, Retakes takes out the false starts, and captions come after both so they match the final cut.

Should you keep the last take or the best take?

Usually the last. A speaker restarts because the first try went wrong, so the final read is the one they meant. That's the rule Retakes follows, and on talking-head and tutorial footage it's right most of the time.

Not always. Sometimes the first read had the energy and the second is flat, or the speaker restarts and then fumbles the ending. Retakes doesn't judge delivery; it keeps the last take. Watch the struck-through lines before you press Remove, and where the earlier read was better, cut that spot by hand.

Other tools aim at a different target. AutoCut describes its Repeat tool as detecting repeated takes and keeping “the best version”, and FireCut lists repetition removal among its tools. If you want software to judge which take is best, AutoCut says it does that. If you want a rule you can check at a glance, last-take-wins is easier to trust.

What should you check before cutting retakes?

Read the struck-through lines for these five things before you press Remove:

Repetition on purpose. “Very, very important” is a word said twice that should stay. Leave Words said twice off until you've read the edit once.
Two speakers. One person repeating the other's question can look like a restart. Check interviews line by line.
Corrections. “We launched in May. We launched in June, sorry.” The last take is the correction, which is what you want, but check that the “sorry” goes too.
Captions. Make them after Retakes, not before.
The copy. Keep the copy of the sequence until the client signs off.

On a long edit, test on two minutes first. If Retakes catches what you'd have caught by ear, run it on the rest.

How do Premiere, mouzeclick, AutoCut and FireCut compare for retakes?

Premiere makes you cut retakes by hand, mouzeclick keeps the last take for you on Windows, and AutoCut says it keeps the best one; FireCut lists repetition removal without saying how it picks. Here is what each maker's own page said on 31 Oct 2026.

Tool	Restarted sentences	Filler words	Where speech is transcribed	Mac	Price as shown
Premiere Pro text-based editing	By hand: select and delete	“uh” and “umm”, in 18 languages	On your computer once the language pack is installed	Yes	Included; Premiere single app US$22.99/mo
mouzeclick Studio, Retakes	Finds restarts, keeps the last take	Um and uh; words said twice	On your computer (Whisper)	No, Windows only	$25 a month, everything included
AutoCut Repeat	Detects repeated takes, keeps “the best version”	Not published	Not published	Yes, also DaVinci Resolve	AI Plan $14.9/month billed yearly ($178.8); not in the $79 silence-only plan
FireCut	Lists “Remove repetition”	Lists “Remove filler words”	Online: transcription needs an internet connection	Yes, also DaVinci Resolve	Plans from $10/mo billed monthly (the page showed an India discount); which plan includes it: not published

Where the others are ahead: AutoCut and FireCut run on Mac and in DaVinci Resolve, and both also list profanity removal. Where mouzeclick differs: the transcript is made on your computer, while FireCut's transcription needs an internet connection, and Retakes sits next to the silence remover, captions and timeline tools in one Premiere panel, in one plan that also covers After Effects. The full comparisons are on the AutoCut alternative and FireCut alternative pages.

Does Retakes work on Mac?

No, Retakes is Windows only for now. On a Mac the Studio still has the Silence remover and the timeline tools, but Retakes and auto captions aren't there yet; see mouzeclick for Mac for what runs where. On a Mac, Premiere's own text-based editing is the way to cut retakes and fillers.

Whatever language you record in, Retakes is only as good as the transcript under it. If you edit in Hindi or Hinglish, run a short test clip first and read the struck-through lines carefully; for captions in that mix, see Hinglish captions in Premiere Pro.

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Questions people ask

Does Retakes upload my audio?

No. The Studio listens to your clips on your computer, with Whisper running locally, so your audio never leaves the machine. The mouzeclick app does need an internet connection while it runs, because it checks your licence online, but nothing is sent away to transcribe your speech.

Will my captions still line up after I cut retakes?

Yes, as long as you make them after the cut. Retakes removes everything in one go and keeps a copy of the sequence, and captions made afterwards still line up with the speech. Make captions the last step of the edit, after retakes and silences are gone.

Can I get a removed take back?

Yes. Retakes keeps a copy of the sequence as it was before the cut, so every earlier try is still there in the copy. Nothing is cut until you press Remove, and you see each struck-through line first, so you can catch a wrong pick before it happens.

Does it remove “like” and “you know”?

Not by itself. Retakes looks for restarts and, if you switch them on, um and uh and words said twice. Premiere's filler detection covers “uh” and “umm”. For “like”, “you know” and “basically”, select the words in the transcript and cut them; in Retakes they join the same Remove.

Is removing repeated takes the same as removing silence?

No. Silence removal cuts quiet gaps by loudness and can't tell a false start from a good sentence, because both are speech. Retakes works from the words. Most talking-head edits need both; the Studio's own demo cuts the silences first, then the retakes.

Why does my transcript miss the false start?

Speech models often smooth over a sentence that stops halfway and starts again, and write it once. mouzeclick listens again to speech Whisper skipped, so a sentence you started twice shows up twice. In Premiere's own transcript, check those spots by ear before you trust the text.

What counts as a retake?

A sentence the speaker starts, abandons and says again: “So today we're going to… So today we're going to cut the silences.” Retakes strikes through the earlier try and keeps the last. An um or uh, or a word said twice in a row, is a separate option you switch on, and both start off.

What does Retakes cost?

Retakes comes with the one mouzeclick plan, $25 a month or $249 a year, which also includes the silence remover, captions, timeline tools and all 22 extensions. Try it free for 3 days with no card. Retakes needs Windows. See pricing.

Sources

Checked on 2026-10-31. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.