I've made a new open source tool called Wizard Cut. This tool takes a video, transcribes the text and allows you to make deletions to that text. Then you can get a copy of the video with all the text you deleted from the transcription removed!
I find this super duper useful for videos. About 90% of the edits are cuts and removing dead silence (this tool also shows big long periods of silence for easy removal). My first step to editing videos now is to pass it through this tool. I predict this will shave off at least ~30 mins - 1hr of editing of each video depending on length of course.
If you want to run it yourself your computer needs to able to run Open AIs whisper tool, I think you need a semi decent GPU.
The tool is basically a wrapper around whisper (to transcribe) and ffmpeg (to do all the cutting). The frontend is html/css/javascript (yeah I know) and I use flask and python for all the glue. Works pretty well but should really be a native application or whatever but I used what I know. And it looks cool.
I've got a video demo coming out on this soon (next tue) but for now you can have this screenshot:
Thanks for reading 🧙