Make the first pass earn its time.
Six guides on the mechanical half of an edit: cutting dead air without making speech sound rushed, removing filler words without flattening the speaker, captioning in the right order, and turning long recordings into something watchable.
Written for Premiere Pro editors, whether or not you use Um Out.
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Build a first-pass editing workflow in Premiere Pro
A reliable first pass separates mechanical cleanup from creative judgment: preserve the source, remove only reviewed distractions, then shape the story.
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Remove silences without making speech sound rushed
Keep room before and after speech, judge pauses by purpose rather than duration alone, and listen across every join.
7 min read DialogueRemove filler words without losing the speaker’s voice
Remove clear hesitation sounds first, leave context-dependent words unticked, and review each edit in the sentence around it.
7 min read CaptionsA practical caption workflow for Premiere Pro
Lock the spoken edit first, review the transcript second, then create and visually check timed captions against playback.
6 min read OBSHow to organize OBS recordings for a Premiere Pro edit
Record predictable local files, keep audio sources separable, wait for the file to finish writing, then create a protected source sequence before cleanup.
9 min read StoryTurn a stream VOD into focused videos
Start with topic changes, find stretches that hold one promise, and cut a coherent beginning, middle, and end before chasing isolated reactions.
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Um Out runs the cleanup inside Premiere Pro and shows you every change before it makes it.