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Stop Editing, Start Creating: How FireCut AI Revolutionizes DaVinci Resolve

Alizah Aamir Alizah Aamir
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Stop Editing, Start Creating: How FireCut AI Revolutionizes DaVinci Resolve
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DaVinci Resolve is a powerful tool, enabling editors to make virtually any edit imaginable. However, in today's highly competitive content world, efficiency is paramount. Are you still spending hours trying to clean up your footage? The reality of modern video editing is that it has become unnecessarily complicated by tedious manual work. The amount of time editors spend manually removing silences, pauses, and filler words is significant, and is often cited as the single most time-consuming and least creative part of editing dialogue-heavy content.

For content like podcasts, YouTube videos, tutorials, and interview-style videos, the process of manually cutting silences, 'umms', 'ahhs', and repetitions can easily consume a large amount of the total editing time. Some editors and creators estimate that 80% of the time in the initial rough-cut phase is dedicated to simply chopping up the video, removing silences, and choosing the right takes. For a typical one-hour long-form video with a lot of dialogue, the manual process of listening, hitting the blade tool, deleting the gap, and ripple deleting can take anywhere from 1 to 2 hours of real-time work just to clean up the audio track and create jump cuts.

As we have been using AI to solve all our problems through automation, why not this one? FireCut AI comes to rescue all the editors who are looking for a solution to revolutionize their workflows. FireCut is an AI-based plugin, originally introduced for Premiere Pro, which offers a one-click solution for all the time-taking tasks. It is a subscription based product. Main features include:

  • Silence Removal: Remove all the awkward pauses and silences with just a click by letting AI analyze the gaps for you, and it only takes a few minutes. 
  • Automated Captions: Captions are super trending right now but adding them to your videos can be tricky. So just use FireCut to add captions by selecting a few simple configurations. You can also choose from more than 50 languages!
  • Dynamic Zooms: Add zooms to your videos where they are needed without having to go through the video and manually zooming in. 
  • Multi-track Editing: Use FireCut’s multi-track feature to make the right cuts on the person who is speaking. Now this is game-changing as switching between the videos was never easy. 

FireCut can compress the 90-120 minutes of manual cutting and review for a one-hour raw file down to a 5-10 minute AI analysis and final human review/polish. The editor's job shifts from the person who makes all the cuts to the person who reviews and polishes the AI's cuts, freeing them for more creative tasks like color, sound design, and motion graphics. It is a very useful tool for video editors who are looking to improve their workflows and make them more efficient.

Go check out FireCut for DaVinci Resolve today!