Plentake analyzes your audio and cuts silences and dead air across your entire timeline in one pass. It runs 100% on your machine — free, no upload, no credits, no internet needed.
Every talking-head edit starts the same tedious way: scrubbing the timeline, listening for the gaps, and slicing out the dead air between sentences. It's the least creative part of editing, and it eats hours. Most tools that promise to automate it upload your footage to the cloud and charge a subscription for the privilege.
Plentake's Silence Remover — part of the free A-Roll Cleaner — does the opposite. It reads the audio of your sequence directly on your own computer, finds every silence and pause, and cuts them across the entire timeline in one pass. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is transcribed, and it costs no credits. Your video stays exactly where it is, and you stay in Premiere Pro the whole time.
Three moves, all inside Premiere Pro — no browser upload, no waiting on a server.
Plentake scans the audio of your whole timeline on your machine to detect silences and dead air. No upload, no transcription, no internet required for this step.
In a single pass across the entire sequence, it marks every silence and long pause so only the parts where you actually speak are left.
An automatic backup of the sequence is made first, then the cuts land as normal Premiere edits. Preview them, or let it apply automatically — every cut is fully undoable.
Most silence removers charge a monthly subscription for the basics and send your footage to the cloud to do it. Plentake's runs locally, works on the whole timeline at once, and is free — so the first, most repetitive step of every edit costs you nothing.
The core silence removal is free and local. If you want a deeper clean, an optional Full Analysis (from 2 credits per minute) also transcribes your audio to catch the things a waveform alone can't hear.
Shooting a two-angle or multi-cam talking-head setup? The A-Roll Cleaner can automatically switch cameras as it cleans — cutting to whichever angle is speaking so your edit already looks like a proper multi-cam. Like the silence removal, this runs locally and is free.
From a raw talking-head sequence to a tight cut, in minutes.
In Premiere Pro: Window → Extensions → Plentake. The A-Roll Cleaner is free to use.
Select the A-Roll Cleaner from the sidebar and pick the sequence you want to tighten up.
Plentake scans the audio across your whole timeline on your machine — nothing is uploaded and no internet is needed for this.
If you shot two angles or multi-cam, let Plentake cut to whoever is speaking automatically while it cleans.
Preview the proposed cuts, or let it apply them in one pass. An automatic backup of the sequence is made before anything changes.
Every cut is a normal Premiere edit — retime it, remove it, or undo the whole pass like any other edit.
The Silence Remover is part of the free A-Roll Cleaner. Install Plentake and clean your first timeline in minutes — no credit card, no upload.
Get started — freeYes. The Silence Remover is part of Plentake's free A-Roll Cleaner. Detecting and cutting silences, dead air and even multi-cam switching cost no credits. Only the optional Full Analysis — which transcribes your audio to also remove filler words and failed takes — uses credits, from 2 credits per minute.
No. Silence detection runs 100% on your own machine. Your footage is never uploaded and nothing is transcribed for the basic silence removal — it works entirely offline.
Yes. Plentake makes an automatic backup copy of the sequence before any cut, and every cut is a normal Premiere edit — so you can preview, retime, remove or undo the whole pass at any time.
Not for silence removal. Analyzing the audio and cutting silences work fully offline. Only the optional Full Analysis needs a connection, because it transcribes your audio.