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AutoCut for DaVinci Resolve

Automatic silence removal with real J-cuts — for the free version of DaVinci Resolve, which normally can't be scripted from outside at all.

Point it at your timeline and it builds a new one next to it: silences cut, and at every edit the previous shot holds over the start of your next line, so you hear the new sentence before the picture cuts. Your voice track is never moved or padded — the J-cut comes from trimming video, the way an editor would do it by hand.

Not affiliated with the commercial AutoCut plugin — this is an independent open-source tool.

Features

  • Silence removal with per-file auto threshold — measures each clip's noise floor, so it works on camera audio where a fixed dB threshold finds nothing
  • Real J-cuts in the built timeline (configurable lead, off by default)
  • Preview before cutting: analyze first, see every planned cut with its reason, toggle any of them off, then build
  • Whisper AI features (all offline): filler-word removal, SRT captions remapped to the cut timeline, chapter markers on long pauses
  • Apple GPU transcription via mlx-whisper, including Thai fine-tuned models; caption line-breaking is Thai-aware
  • Presets with built-in templates; progress bar and cancellable runs
  • FCPXML export of the same edit for Premiere Pro / Final Cut interchange

How the free-version support works

Free Resolve blocks external scripting — but scripts run from its own menu are allowed. AutoCut installs a tiny bridge script into Resolve's Scripts menu; the desktop app talks to it through JSON files. One click on Workspace → Scripts → Utility → AutoCut Bridge starts the bridge and (on macOS) opens the app, which connects automatically.

There is no razor/trim API in any Resolve edition, so "editing" means building a new timeline from your current one — your original is never modified.

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