🚀 How to Automate Some Parts Of Video Editing (and Still Keep High Quality)

Mustafa Ahmed

3d • Tips & Resources💡

✅ 1. Automate Repetitive Editing Tasks With Presets

Most editors waste time doing the same things in every project:

Color grading
Audio cleanup
Titles/lower thirds
Transitions
Export settings

🔧 Solution

Create presets (templates) so you can apply them in one click.

Tools:

Adobe Premiere Pro: Presets for color (Lumetri), audio, sequences, captions
DaVinci Resolve: PowerGrades, Fusion templates
Final Cut Pro: Effects presets, titles presets

Result: Instead of doing 10–15 clicks per clip, you do 1 click.

✅ 2. Auto-Cut Silences & Bad Takes

Manually trimming pauses takes the most time.

🔧 Solution

Use auto-silence cutting + “detect dead air.”

Tools:

Descript → Auto-remove silence + filler words
Premiere Pro Speech-to-Text + Auto Split
DaVinci Resolve Neural Engine (Detect Moments)

Result: Cuts your timeline cleanup time by 70%.

✅ 3. Auto-Captions & Subtitles (with high accuracy)

Don’t write captions manually.

Tools:

Premiere Pro Speech-to-Text
CapCut Auto-captions
Descript Captions
DaVinci Resolve Transcription

Result: Saves 1–2 hours per video and improves accuracy by 95%.

✅ 4. Auto-Enhance Audio

Instead of manually EQ, noise reduce, and compress…

Tools:

Adobe “Enhance Speech”
DaVinci Resolve “Dialogue Leveler”
Audition presets
Krisp (real-time noise removal)

Result: Good audio without touching advanced audio tools.

✅ 5. Use AI Editing Tools (for 10x faster workflows)

If you edit volume content like TikToks, podcasts, reels, etc., AI tools can automate most of it.

Best AI Tools:

🎧 Wisecut → Auto cut silences, add zooms, subtitles

🎙️ Descript → Edit video like a text document

🔄 Runway → Auto-remove backgrounds, fill, b-roll

🎞️ Pika / Kapwing AI → Quick cuts, captions, templates

Result: Cuts 3-hour work to 20–30 minutes.

✅ 6. Automated B-Roll & Stock Insertions

Adding b-roll manually is slow.

Tools:

Runway automatic b-roll suggestions
Premiere Pro AI B-Roll Recommender (beta)
Descript Auto B-roll
Vidyo.ai for auto-highlights & b-roll

Result: Speeds up content editing by 50–80%.

✅ 7. Automate Project Organization

Most editors waste time organizing:

Folder → Footage → Audio → Exports → Thumbnails

Solution:

Use folder automation:

Post Haste — auto-create project folder structure
DaVinci Resolve .drp templates
Premiere Pro project template files

Result: Every project is perfectly organized from the start.

✅ 8. Batch Processing (huge time saver)

You can batch:

Resize multiple videos
Apply LUTs
Export in different formats
Transcode to proxies

Tools:

Adobe Media Encoder
DaVinci Resolve Deliver Page (Job Queue)
HandBrake

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