This program looks like it fulfills its purpose quite nicely. Well done!
Unfortunately, that purpose happens to be something that absolutely drives me up the wall. Few things cause me to close a video and outright block its creator faster or more vigorously than cutting out pauses between sentences and phrases. It's great that your demo video recognizes that to be a problem, but even after accounting for it it's still jarring - and let's face it, just about zero users of your software are gonna account for it.
What happened to the good old days of doing multiple takes and rehearsing?
In any case, nice work on it, and I hope your customers use this power responsibly and unnoticeably :)
What happened to the good old days of doing multiple takes and rehearsing?
How well does that work on a live presentation before an audience, do you think? Say, a preacher delivering a Sunday morning sermon? PyGoSwiftCon 2023 tech presentation? "Here's last Saturday's video, can you post that to $WEBSITE?" One does not always have the luxury of a retake.
And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses.
In any case, I said "and rehearsing"; people can and do rehearse live presentations and sermons and other speeches. That's in fact a very common thing: write out what you're going to say (or pay someone to write it for you), rehearse it in front of friends or family or pets or your mirror, possibly even memorize it.
> And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses.
Doesn't seem any worse to me than watching at 2X speed, which I frequently elect to do.
Which is fair, but at least you get to control that. The same can't really be said of pauses between sentences/phrases; once they're gone, they're gone, you know? That is: playback speed is a non-destructive preference, whereas silence removal is destructive.
Unfortunately, that purpose happens to be something that absolutely drives me up the wall. Few things cause me to close a video and outright block its creator faster or more vigorously than cutting out pauses between sentences and phrases. It's great that your demo video recognizes that to be a problem, but even after accounting for it it's still jarring - and let's face it, just about zero users of your software are gonna account for it.
What happened to the good old days of doing multiple takes and rehearsing?
In any case, nice work on it, and I hope your customers use this power responsibly and unnoticeably :)