Last Updated on March 27, 2026
Auto-Editor is an application for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness.
Before doing the real editing, you first cut out the “dead space” which is typically silence. This is known as a “first pass”. Cutting these is a boring task, especially if the video is very long.
The CLI tool is published under an open source license. While there is a commercial GUI version, it’s not available for Linux.
Key Features
- Make automatic or manual cuts.
- Export to DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and ShotCut.
- Additional functionality available from subcommands:
- info – displays media information relevant to auto-editor.
- levels – displays individual “edit method” stream values before the threshold procedure (if any) is applied. media information relevant to auto-editor. levels mainly exists to be used extensively by other programs so they can use auto-editor’s rich media analysis features.
- subdump – displays the textual representation of subtitle streams in media files.
- desc – displays the video’s description.
- palet – allows you to run palet files
- Support for GPU acceleration.
Website: auto-editor.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: WyattBlue
License: Public Domain
Auto-Editor is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Video Editors | |
|---|---|
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