AI expert Li Mu has released an open-source editing tool for beginners! You can edit videos by just looking at the subtitles, and delete stuck and duplicate clips with one click.

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Li Mu, the self-proclaimed "amateur uploader" and AI expert , has just created a tool that will benefit the editing community .

If you are still worried about having to listen to it repeatedly before you can start editing the video, you might as well try it:

You don't even need to open PR. Just check the subtitles. You can easily cut out blank pauses, repeated sections, and create a film in minutes!

It is now open source on GitHub.

One netizen excitedly expressed that it was so useful! Every time he cut the blank space, it took him a long time, which was very uncomfortable.

Some people say that this is the true transformation of AI into productivity.

How amazing is it? Let’s take a look.

"Fool" tutorial, simple and easy to operate

This magical tool is called AutoCut and it is very easy to use.

First, AutoCut will automatically generate subtitles for your video.

As can be seen from the demonstration video, both Chinese and English words can be recognized very well.

What’s more thoughtful is that even the blank parts where no speech is spoken will be marked.

Next, you can check the subtitles and delete the blank pauses and repeated parts. AutoCut will automatically cut and save the corresponding clips in the video.

Following this process, you don’t even need to use video editing software, you only need to edit the text to complete the cutting.

Just as Li Mu said, it can be said that the country is very friendly to an "amateur up-loader" like him who writes, directs, acts and edits his own films.

However, it is worth mentioning that Li Mu also said that since everyone's speaking habits are different, the transcription quality of videos of fluent speaking will be higher.

And if you have higher requirements for the video, you can use this step as a rough cut and make some fine-tuning later. I believe this step will also save you a lot of trivial time in deleting blank spaces.

AI tools made by big guys

In fact, the development of AutoCut is only part of the trailer for Li Mu’s “Thesis Intensive Reading Class”.

In order to explain OpenAI's latest open source speech recognition system Whisper, he made such a video editing tool.

According to Whisper's paper, the model is divided into 5 models, and the small version is used by default in AutoCut this time.

Li Mu also suggested that if you are not satisfied with the quality of subtitle transcription, you can replace it with a larger whisper model yourself.

He also gave the results of his own testing of different models on three different hardware for reference.

The detailed interpretation will be provided in the intensive reading class, so those who are interested can wait and see.

GitHub link:
https://github.com/mli/autocut

Li Mu's B-station paper preview link:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Pe4y1t7de/?