PauseCut turns a long recording into captioned vertical clips — transcribed, chosen, and cut on your Mac. Every cut lands on a natural pause. Never mid-word.
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Where the clip starts — measured from the audio
Cutting on whole seconds
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Real word timings from a 41-minute episode. See how it’s measured →
Most clipping tools cut on whole seconds. Speech doesn’t happen on whole seconds, so clips open and close inside words. Below is one real boundary from a 41-minute episode we ran through both a leading on-device clipper and PauseCut. The word timings are measured from the audio — not redrawn for effect.
The clip is told to start at 357 seconds. The word “it’s” runs from 356.82 to 357.12 — so the clip opens 0.12s into it, and the listener hears a chopped fragment.
Result: the clip opens mid-word. Across 32 boundaries in this episode, 13 landed inside a word.
PauseCut snaps every boundary to word-level timings, then settles it into the measured silence between words — here, the 0.06s gap after “agree.”
Result: the clip opens on a clean sentence start. 0 of 12 boundaries landed inside a word.
Same 41-minute episode, same machine, same day. We publish the method and the numbers because they’re checkable — and because a clipping tool should be judged on its clips, not its copy.
| Leading on-device clipper | PauseCut | |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-word cuts | 13 of 32 boundaries (41%) | 0 of 12 |
| Boundary precision | whole seconds | snapped into measured silence |
| Duplicate / overlapping clips | 2 pairs shipped twice | 0 |
| Clip lengths | 5 of 16 were exactly 60s | content-driven, 38–70s |
| Longest video | 2-hour published cap | no cap — a 1.9h file in 141s |
| Edit a clip by its transcript | no | yes |
| Translate the captions | no | yes |
| Account required | email sign-in | none |
| Install | 480MB app + multi-GB engine download | native, no extra download |
Word-level timings, boundaries settled into real pauses. The thing everyone complains about, fixed first.
Both faces found once and framed steadily — stacked 9:16 with the active speaker switching. No drifting auto-tracker, and captions never sit on a face.
Karaoke, Bold Pop, Clean and Emoji — word-synced to the audio, plus your own font, colour and logo.
Trim by clicking words in the transcript instead of nudging a timeline blindfolded.
Record in one language, caption in another, with the timing preserved.
A 1.9-hour recording finished end to end in 141 seconds and never went above 71MB of memory.
Cloud clippers meter you: a 60-minute episode burns 60 credits whether you keep one clip or none, and your projects lock when you stop paying.
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