Premiere Pro

A Premiere Pro silence remover that cuts every pause and keeps the music

Q: What does the silence remover cost?

It comes with the one mouzeclick plan: ₹499 / US$25 a month or ₹4,999 / US$249 for a year, with everything included. You can try it free for 3 days with no card. A creator or friend code takes 10% off a new customer's first 30-day or 1-year payment. Everything is listed under pricing .

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

A Premiere Pro silence remover finds every stretch quieter than a level you set and cuts it out, closing the gaps. Premiere can do a transcript-based version itself with Delete Pauses. mouzeclick Studio's Silence remover reads the audio level instead: by default it marks pauses quieter than −40 dB lasting 0.40 s or more, keeps 0.12 s around speech and leaves the music bed alone.

Studio defaults: quieter than −40 dB, pauses from 0.40 s, 0.12 s kept around speech
Nothing changes until you press Remove, and a copy of the sequence stays in the project
The Studio Silence remover runs on Windows and Mac; the Cut desk presets (Dialogue −48, Podcast −44, Aggressive −38 dB) are in the Windows-only workspace
The sound is read on your computer: no upload and nothing extra to install
Premiere's own Delete Pauses comes with Premiere and works from a transcript

Can Premiere Pro remove silence on its own?

Yes, if your sequence has a transcript. Premiere's text-based editing can filter the transcript down to pauses and delete them in one go, and Adobe added the filler words “uh” and “umm” to the same filter. We found no tool in Premiere that cuts silence by audio level; editors have asked for one on Adobe's own ideas forum.

Delete Pauses, the native way

Transcribe the sequence in the Text panel (Window › Text). It has to be a text-based editing transcript, not a static one.
Open the transcript's filter and choose Pauses.
Delete all of them, or go one by one. Choose Extract to ripple-delete and close the gaps, or Lift to take them out and leave gaps.
Play it back. Only the sequence changes; the source clips stay whole.

To change how long a gap must be before it counts as a pause, open the transcript's three-dot menu and choose Transcript view options. Delete Pauses costs nothing beyond your Premiere subscription, and if you already edit from the transcript it's the obvious first try.

By hand, on the waveform

Make the dialogue track tall enough to read the waveform. Cut at the start of a gap with Add Edit, Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac), move the playhead to where speech starts again and press Q: Premiere ripple-trims everything between that cut and the playhead. W does the same forwards, to the next edit. For a two-minute piece this is still the most precise method. For a 40-minute podcast it's a long evening.

Why is Delete Pauses greyed out in Premiere Pro?

Usually because Premiere is showing you a transcript it won't edit. One Adobe Community thread gives three fixes:

You're looking at the Source Monitor's transcript, which is read-only. Click in the timeline so the sequence has focus, then go back to the Text panel.
The sequence transcript is static. Open the Text panel's three-dot menu and choose Generate text-based editing transcript.
Nothing was transcribed. Turn on Automatic Transcription in the Transcription section of Premiere's preferences.

One editor on Premiere 25.1 for Windows still had a grey button after the first fix, and the thread never settles that case.

Filler words have their own catch: Adobe says a transcript made before filler detection existed won't show them until you transcribe again.

How does a silence remover decide what is silence?

It either measures loudness or reads a transcript. An audio-level remover draws a line, say −40 dB, and treats anything quieter than that line, for longer than a minimum time, as silence. A transcript-based tool such as Premiere's Delete Pauses treats the gaps between recognised words as pauses.

Question	Audio level (mouzeclick)	Transcript pauses (Premiere)
What it needs	Only the sound	A text-based editing transcript of the sequence
Language	Any. It never reads words, so Hindi, Hinglish and mixed speech cut the same way	Premiere's Speech to Text languages (18)
What you control	How quiet, how long, and how much room to keep around speech	How long a pause must be
Steady room noise	Raises the floor; set the line above it	Matters less: it looks for words, not level
Music mixed into the voice clip	Fills the gaps, so there is little quiet to find	Pauses are found between words, if the speech is still recognised
Your source files	Untouched	Untouched

On a clean voice recording both work. I reach for audio level when the speaker mixes Hindi and English, when there's no transcript yet, or when I want to see every gap drawn on a waveform before anything moves.

How do I remove silence in Premiere Pro with mouzeclick Studio?

Select the clips, press Analyse, check the marks, press Remove. The Silence tab is one of five in mouzeclick Studio, a panel inside Premiere Pro.

Open Window › Extensions › mouzeclick Studio and go to the Silence tab. (If it isn't there, press Install Premiere bridge on the Tool wheel page of the mouzeclick app and restart Premiere.)
Select the clips and press Analyse. mouzeclick reads their sound itself, on your computer, draws the waveform and marks every pause.
Set the line: how quiet (default −40 dB), how long a pause must be (0.40 s) and how much room to keep around speech (0.12 s). The marks move as you change the numbers.
Untick any pause you want to keep: the beat before a punchline, the breath before a reveal.
Leave Keep a copy of the sequence ticked and press Remove. The pauses are cut and the gaps closed on every track, so picture and sound stay together. A music bed underneath is left alone.

The Studio Silence remover works in Premiere Pro on Windows and on Mac. There's no Python to install and no upload. The mouzeclick app does need an internet connection while it runs, because it checks your licence online.

Once the pauses are gone, two jobs usually follow: removing the sentences you started twice, and punching in on alternate clips so the jump cuts read as a second camera.

What do the Dialogue, Podcast and Aggressive presets do?

They are three starting thresholds in the Cut desk of the mouzeclick workspace for Premiere Pro: Dialogue −48 dB, Podcast −44 dB and Aggressive −38 dB. Anything quieter than the line counts as silence, so −38 dB, the highest line, catches the most and cuts hardest.

Preset	Threshold	What counts as silence	Where I start with it
Dialogue	−48 dB	Only the quietest gaps	A clean voice with natural pauses worth keeping
Podcast	−44 dB	Quiet gaps plus a little room tone	Two or more mics, where each picks up a bit of the other
Aggressive	−38 dB	The most: anything below a fairly high line	Tight social cuts, or a room whose noise floor sits high

Each preset is only a start. You then tune four numbers: the threshold, the minimum silence (shorter gaps are left alone), the minimum kept length (the shortest piece that stays) and the padding around speech.

The Cut desk works on one clip at a time. Select it and press Analyze clip: the gaps come from its audio levels, near-instantly, with no speech model. The waveform shows every gap, with the active gaps, time to clean and time kept counted live as you switch gaps on or off. Choose Remove + ripple to close the gaps, or Cuts only to add frame-safe cuts and decide yourself, then press Auto cut. Undo last auto cut takes it back.

The workspace is Windows only; the Mac app doesn't include it. After Effects gets the same three presets in its own workspace's Motion lab, where the Silence remover cuts pauses out of the selected layers and can close the gaps, keep them or only add markers.

How do I remove silence but keep the background music?

Keep the music on its own track and let the remover look at the voice. In mouzeclick Studio that's what Remove does: it closes the gaps in the speech and leaves a music bed underneath alone.

Two things still trip people up. If the music is mixed into the same clip as the voice (a screen recording with system sound, a camera next to a speaker), there's no quiet stretch to find, whatever tool you use. Separate the voice, or accept fewer cuts. And the edit gets shorter while the bed doesn't, so check where the music now ends and trim or fade its tail.

In plain Premiere, the cleanest order is the old one: cut the pauses first, lay the music after.

What settings work for talking heads, podcasts and noisy rooms?

The defaults (−40 dB, pauses from 0.40 s, 0.12 s kept around speech) suit a clean talking head; from there, change one number at a time. These are the changes I make most:

Word endings get clipped. Raise the room kept around speech from 0.12 s toward 0.2 s. Soft endings such as “s” and “f” are quiet and can fall under the line.
The cut feels choppy. Raise the minimum pause above 0.40 s, so the short breaths between phrases stay.
Nothing is found in a noisy room. Look at the waveform. If the floor between sentences never drops below the line, raise the threshold until the gaps light up, toward −38 dB.
A two-mic podcast. Bleed from the other mic fills the gaps. Start from Podcast (−44 dB) and check the gaps on the waveform before removing anything.
Loud breaths. A loud breath sits above the line and stays. That's often what you want; take out the ugly ones by hand.

My advice: don't remove every gap. A video with no air in it is tiring to watch. Untick the pause before a key point and the one after a joke.

Is there a free silence remover for Premiere Pro?

Premiere's own Delete Pauses is the free one: it costs nothing beyond your Premiere subscription. The plug-ins are paid, each with a trial. Here is what each maker's page showed on 31 Oct 2026.

Tool	Finds silence by	Works in	Mac	Price as shown	Trial
Premiere Delete Pauses	Transcript	Premiere Pro	Yes	Included; Premiere single app US$22.99/mo	7-day Premiere trial
mouzeclick	Audio level	Premiere Pro (Studio); Premiere Pro and After Effects workspaces	Studio yes; workspaces Windows only	$25 a month, one plan with everything	3 days, no card
AutoCut	Not published	Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve	Yes	Silence-only plan $79 billed yearly ($6.6/month); AI Plan $14.9/month billed yearly	14 days, no card (one block on the page says 28)
FireCut	Not published	Premiere Pro 2022+ and DaVinci Resolve	Yes	Starter $10/mo billed monthly, $5/mo billed yearly (the page showed an India discount)	7 days
Recut	Not published	Its own app; exports XML to Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut Pro and others	Yes	$129 one-time, or $15/month	3 free exports

In US dollars mouzeclick isn't the cheapest way to cut silence; AutoCut's silence-only plan costs less. The difference is what comes with it. One mouzeclick plan covers the Studio (silence and timeline tools on Windows and Mac; captions and retakes on Windows), all 22 Premiere Pro and After Effects extensions, both workspaces on Windows, and the mouse app with its wheels. In India it's billed in rupees. If silence is the only job you have, a silence-only tool is the sensible buy. The details are on the AutoCut alternative, FireCut alternative and Recut alternative pages.

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Questions people ask

Does the silence remover upload my audio?

No. mouzeclick reads the sound of your clips on your computer to find the pauses; there is no upload and nothing extra to install. The app itself needs an internet connection while it runs, because it checks your licence online, but the audio never leaves the machine.

Does removing silence keep picture and sound in sync?

Yes. In mouzeclick Studio, Remove cuts each pause and closes the gap on every track at once, so the picture, the dialogue and the other tracks move together. A music bed underneath is left alone, so after the cut, check where the music now ends and trim or fade its tail.

Can I undo a silence cut?

Yes. Until you press Remove nothing on your timeline changes, and with Keep a copy of the sequence ticked, the sequence as it was stays in your project afterwards. In the Cut desk on Windows you can undo the last auto cut, or pick Cuts only, which adds the cuts without closing any gaps.

Does it work on Hindi or Hinglish speech?

Yes. The Studio Silence remover and the Cut desk measure loudness, not words, so the language makes no difference: Hindi, Hinglish or English mixed into one sentence all cut the same way. That's a real difference from Delete Pauses, which depends on Premiere having a transcript in your language. For captions in Hinglish, see Hinglish captions in Premiere Pro.

Does mouzeclick's silence remover work on a Mac?

The Studio Silence remover does: it runs in Premiere Pro on Windows and on Mac with macOS 12 or newer. The Cut desk with the Dialogue, Podcast and Aggressive presets is part of the mouzeclick workspace, which is Windows only. Retakes and auto captions are Windows only too. More on mouzeclick for Mac.

Can I mark the pauses without deleting them?

Yes. In the Studio, Analyse marks every pause on the waveform and nothing changes until you press Remove. In the Cut desk, Cuts only adds frame-safe cuts at each gap and closes nothing, so you choose what goes. In After Effects, the workspace Silence remover can simply add markers.

Is a noise gate the same as a silence remover?

No. A noise gate turns the quiet parts down: the video stays the same length and the dead air is still there, only quieter. A silence remover takes those stretches out of the picture and the sound and closes the gaps. Use a gate to clean up room noise and a silence remover to tighten the edit.

Can I remove silence in After Effects too?

On Windows, yes. The mouzeclick workspace for After Effects has a Silence remover in Motion lab with the same Dialogue, Podcast and Aggressive presets. It cuts pauses out of the selected layers and can close the gaps, keep them or only add markers, which is handy for talking-head comps that never pass through Premiere.

What does the silence remover cost?

It comes with the one mouzeclick plan: $25 a month or $249 for a year, with everything included. You can try it free for 3 days with no card. A creator or friend code takes 10% off a new customer's first 30-day or 1-year payment. Everything is listed under pricing.

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