geerlingguy/final-cut-it-out

Automatic silence remover for Final Cut Pro X

final-cut-it-out's Issues

Consider generating a .fcpXML file for the EDL instead

Instead of using Applescript to manually input tons of keypresses to do all the blade cuts and deletions (a process that is prone to error, if you accidentally screw anything up during the process), it would be nice if this script generated a valid .fcpXML file with the cuts in it, which you could import into FCPX and have it make the cuts for you.

See: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/professional_video_applications/fcpxml_reference/creating_fcpxml_documents

Make it so sound must exist for minimum amount of time to include

One thing I've noticed is this script will leave in a lot of bits when I set down an item, cough, or take a drink of water between takes.

It would be nice if it didn't. Maybe have a configurable threshold like "if the clip is less than 1 second, cut it"?

My solution right now is to select those spaces with the Range tool in Final Cut Pro before I export an audio file to process with ffmpeg, and mute the audio in them manually by dragging the audio volume to silence / 0.