We teach the software used most in video production: Adobe Premiere Pro and Black Magic DaVinci Resolve. In both, your professional eyes and ears are respected final arbiters, but, you may not want the software making all decisions for you. Good news: AI can get you to decision points faster, saving time getting audio that pleases those picky ears of yours. Here's examples of each:

When working with interviews, training videos, presentations, or any dialogue-heavy material, much of the early editing process consists of removing false starts, repeated thoughts, filler words, and sections that simply do not help. Traditionally, that meant listening closely, marking selects, and making many small cuts in the timeline. It works, but it's slow.

Premiere Pro’s Text-Based Editing offers a more efficient starting point. It can transcribe spoken dialogue in a sequence and present that transcript as editable text. From there, you can review the spoken content in written form and make editorial decisions muchfaster than scrubbing through the timeline. Deleting text removes the corresponding media from the sequence, making the first pass of an interview or lecture easier to manage. Awesome!

This is not a replacement for editing judgment. A transcript will not tell you what is dramatically important, what should breathe, or what a speaker’s hesitation may contribute to the rhythm of a scene. But it's very good at helping you identify what is clearly unnecessary. For rough cuts, string-outs, and content where clarity matters more than performance nuance, it can save a significant amount of time.

For editors who work with long-form spoken content, this is one of the most practical improvements Adobe has added to Premiere Pro in recent years.

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Clean dialogue has always been one of the most important parts of a finished video, and also one of the easiest things to lose control of during production. Even with strong visuals, distracting background noise can make a project feel less professional. Air conditioning, room tone, traffic, and other ambient sounds are often not severe enough to ruin a recording, but they can still make speech feel less clear and direct.

DaVinci Resolve’s feature Voice Isolation, in its digital audio workstation, Fairlight, offers a practical way to reduce that distraction. Separating spoken dialogue from surrounding noise, it brings the voice forward more clearly. In many situations, it can improve intelligibility quickly, with far less effort than building a more elaborate chain of corrective audio processing.

But, as with many corrective tools, too much processing can make a voice sound unnatural or overly dry. The goal is not to erase the world around the speaker completely, but to reduce the noise so the listener focuses on the words. Used with some restraint, Voice Isolation can be a very effective way to improve interviews, training videos, presentations, and other dialogue-driven material.

For editors who are not audio specialists, it is one of the most approachable and useful features in Fairlight. For those who are, it can still be a valuable starting point.

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