Premiere Pro · Cutting and the timeline
How to remove filler words in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Transcribe the sequence, open the Transcript tab, and filter for filler words. Premiere highlights the ums and uhs, and you delete them all at once or one by one.
In Premiere Pro
01
Transcribe
Open Window > Text, go to the Transcript tab and transcribe the sequence.
02
Highlight filler words
Open the transcript's filter options and choose Filler words. Premiere highlights words such as um and uh.
03
Review them
Click each one to jump the playhead to it and listen. Some uhs carry meaning or rhythm.
04
Delete
Delete them all at once, or select single ones and press Delete. Premiere removes the matching frames from the timeline.
- Filler-word detection arrived in Premiere Pro 24. It catches ums and uhs; it does not catch "you know" or false starts.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Ask Eddie to remove filler words, and it cuts more than ums.
Ask "Remove filler words." Eddie cuts um, uh, you know and false starts. You can be selective, such as "Remove the ums but keep the natural pauses", and ask Eddie to restore a line it took out.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- Which version of Premiere has filler-word removal?
- Premiere Pro 24 and later, in the Transcript tab of the Text panel.
- Does removing filler words cause jump cuts?
- Yes, on a single camera. Cover them with b-roll or a cut to a second angle.