You must have heard about Ali Abdaal, the doctor who is also world’s most-followed productivity expert. He is also very famous on YouTube with 6.45 million subscribers. Every aspiring content creator follows Ali Abdaal and tries to copy his style of content. His videos are always precise, focused and interesting. Do you wanna know his secret? It’s FireCut AI.
So here’s the background story; he started his YouTube channel in his last year at Cambridge. While making videos, he quickly realized that video editing takes way longer than it should. So he built an AI-based Premiere Pro plugin called FireCut AI with his friend Suhail Idrees. It was designed to super-charge video editing by automating time-taking tasks of an editor’s daily workflow.
FireCut AI has some very powerful features which can help any video editor who is looking to speed up their work. Let’s have a look at how these features work:
- Silence Removal:
You can easily remove the gaps or awkward pauses by letting AI go through the video and make the cuts while you sit back and relax. There is a basic mode and an advanced mode which gives you greater control over how the cuts are made. This features easily saves you around 30-60 minutes as compared to manual editing.
- Repetition Removal:
There is often repetition in a raw video as the speaker might need forget or fumble while recording. So you have to go through the video and cut out all those repetitive parts. Well, not with FireCut AI, it can cut out all the repetitions with just a click.
- Remove Profanity:
Editors often need to censor out some words in order to meet the social platform’s rules or to make sure that the content is suitable for the audience. FireCut AI makes it extremely easy as you just have to put in the words you want to exclude and choose if you want a sound there or just silence. Then click go and watch FireCut AI do all the work.
- Zooms:
FireCut AI also lets you add automated zooms to emphasize on the importnant parts. You can also turn on face detection or animate the zoom. It just takes a few seconds while manually you would easily spend more than 30 mintues on the same task.
- Automated Captions:
You can add captions with more than 50 languages and even translate your video through captions using FireCut AI. You get amazing presets and you can even style your own captions by choosing your favorite font, style, size and animation and save them as a preset for your next videos.
- B-rolls:
You can also add B-rolls related to your content using FireCut AI as it gives you access to great stock footage libraries like Storyblocks, Pexels, GIPHT, Envato etc. So you can add high-quality b-rolls to your videos and make them interesting within minutes.
- Multi-track Editing:
If you are a podcast editor, this feature is a life-saver for you. Multi-track feature lets you switch between the speakers automatically by making cuts at the right points. You can also add wide shots. You can choose the balance between the speakers if you want to focus more on one speaker.
- Highlights:
This feature picks out important parts of a longer video and turns them into ready-to-post short videos. It is great if you want to post teasers of your long videos before they release or just share some parts as short-form content.
FireCut AI is a great tool for every video editor using Premiere Pro. Good news is that it is also available for DaVinci Resolve users now. This tool changes your daily workflow and turns hours of work into just minutes giving you full creative freedom. So let AI takeover and start your free trial today!