Text-based editing — cut your video by editing the transcript
Edit your video like a document: delete a word, a sentence or a pause and the matching footage is cut with it. Or auto-remove every pause in one tap. Free, right in your browser.
A quick tool — one slice of free Studio. The same job (and the rest of the edit) lives on the board: multi-track, captions, color, sound, stock. Connect your AI and it edits for you.
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Eziclip is a free, in-browser text-based video editor: drop a clip and AI transcribes it with word-level timing, then you delete words in the transcript to cut the matching footage — or strip every silence in one tap. The captions re-time to each cut and nothing is destructive. There's no account — and unlike Descript's free plan, there's no monthly transcription cap and no 720p limit.
Cut the silences automatically
Most raw footage is padded with dead air — the pause before you start, the gaps while you think, the long tail after the last word. Text-based editing finds those silent stretches and removes them in a single tap, so a rambling take becomes a tight, watchable cut without you scrubbing the timeline by hand.
Silence detection is tunable, not a black box: you set how quiet counts as silence, how long a pause has to last before it's cut, and how much breathing room to keep around each phrase so word edges never clip. Every cut is reversible, and your original clip is never touched.
Edit video by editing text
When your clip loads, AI transcribes it with word-level timing. That transcript becomes the editor: delete a word, a filler or a whole sentence, and the exact slice of video behind it is cut out — the footage on either side joins up cleanly. It's the fastest way to drop an 'um', a flubbed line or a tangent, because you're reading instead of hunting through frames.
Because the captions come from the same timed transcript, they re-time themselves to every cut automatically — burn them in afterwards and they stay perfectly in sync. Nothing drifts, and you can restore anything you change your mind about.
It runs right in your browser
Decoding, transcription, silence analysis and the cut itself all happen right in your browser. That makes it handy for client work, unreleased clips and anything you're working on.
It also means it's free: no account and no paywall waiting at the export step. The AI model runs in your browser.
Built for short-form
Text-based editing is tuned for the clips you actually post — talking-head videos, podcast cuts, screen recordings and reels. Tightening the pace is what keeps a viewer past the first second, and cutting the dead air is the single biggest thing you can do for retention. If the tool saves you time and you feel like chipping in there's a button for it, but it's never required.
How to auto-cut a video
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Drop your clip
MP4, MOV or WebM. It's decoded and transcribed right in your browser.
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Cut silences or edit the text
One tap removes the dead air automatically. Or delete a word in the transcript and that slice of the video is cut with it — edit the clip like a doc.
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Download
Export the tightened video, free. The captions and timing stay in sync with every cut.
Questions
Two things, on one timeline. It detects the silent gaps in your video and removes them in a tap, and it turns the transcript into an editor — delete a word or a sentence and the matching piece of the video is cut out, so you edit footage by editing text.
Yes. The transcription, silence detection and cutting all run right in your browser — no sign-up and no paywall at the download step. Free exports carry a small Eziclip mark in the corner; a flat $9/month subscription removes it across every tool.
When your clip loads, AI writes out every word with its exact start and end time. Deleting a word removes its time span from the video; the surrounding footage joins up and the captions re-time themselves to match, so nothing drifts.
Yes. Silence removal is tunable — how quiet counts as silence, how long a pause has to be, and how much breathing room to leave around speech — and you can always restore a cut. Nothing is destructive: your source clip is never overwritten.
Tightening talking-head videos, podcasts and screen recordings — cutting the 'ums', the dead air and the rambles that make a clip drag, so the final cut is fast and watchable for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.