Filler Word Remover for Premiere Pro
Captain Cut is a native Premiere Pro panel that transcribes your sequence word by word, finds the ums and uhs, and cuts them out in sync across your tracks, in the same pass that removes silence and writes your captions.
You finish a talking-head take, drop it on the timeline, and then you hear it: "um... so, uh, the thing is..." every fifteen seconds. Razoring out each filler word by hand is slow, and it's easy to miss one, or to cut a frame too far and clip the syllable next to it. On a podcast, a course lesson, or a YouTube talking-head cut, filler words are the most repetitive job in the project.
Captain Cut is a native Adobe Premiere Pro CEP extension: it runs as a panel inside Premiere, not as a separate app you export to. To find filler words it first transcribes your dialogue with word-level timestamps, then removes the hesitation sounds ("um", "uh", "erm" and their equivalents in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic and Hebrew) as part of the same cut that removes silence. The cuts land in sync across your linked tracks, and the same transcript becomes your captions.
How filler-word removal works in Captain Cut
Open the panel on the sequence you want to clean up. Captain Cut works on the clips already in your timeline.
1. Set the audio language. In Settings, pick the language spoken in your video. Transcription and the filler-word list both follow this setting, so a Spanish interview gets Spanish fillers ("eh", "este"). 2. Turn on Cut, Captions and Clean speech. Filler-word removal runs on the transcript, so captions need to be on. Clean speech (on by default) tells Captain Cut to remove the fillers from both the cut and the caption text. 3. Run Analyze. Your dialogue audio is transcribed by our AI service (this counts toward your plan's AI minutes), silence is detected, and every filler word becomes a cut. Padding keeps a small buffer around each cut so the neighbouring syllable isn't clipped. 4. Review and apply. Every cut is listed before it touches your timeline. Apply, and the cuts land in sync across your linked tracks.
Longer videos take longer to transcribe: plan on a few minutes for a typical talking-head edit.
Why remove filler words inside Premiere Pro
Export the audio, run it through a web app, re-import, hope the timecodes still line up: that round-trip is where most filler-word workflows lose time. Captain Cut reads your sequence directly and writes cuts back to the clips already on the timeline, so your color, effects, and keyframes stay exactly where you left them.
Because filler words are found from a word-level transcript, the same analysis also snaps your silence cuts to word edges and produces your captions. One run, one review, nothing to export.
Cut the ums and uhs without leaving your timeline
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Start freeFrequently asked questions
No. Captain Cut is a native Adobe Premiere Pro CEP extension, built for Premiere's panel and timeline architecture. It does not run in DaVinci Resolve or any other NLE.
Filler-word lists are built in for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic and Hebrew. Set your video's language under Settings → Audio language before you run the analysis; transcription and filler detection both follow it.
Yes. Filler-word removal is based on transcription, which runs on our AI service and counts toward your plan's AI minutes. Silence detection on its own runs locally.
That's what padding is for. Cut boundaries are placed on the transcript's word edges, with a small buffer around each one, so the cut leaves a margin instead of landing frame-tight against the adjacent syllable.
Every cut is listed for review before you apply it, and the list labels filler words separately from silence. You can also turn Clean speech off in Settings to keep fillers in both the cut and the captions.
Fillers are found on your main dialogue track, and the resulting cuts are applied to all linked tracks so video, dialogue, and B-roll stay in sync.
Yes. That's the normal workflow: with Cut, Captions and Clean speech on, one Analyze run removes silence and filler words together and writes your captions.
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