🧥 dejensen

Remove pauses from presentation videos.

Why?

Pauses.. are good … for dramatic effect. When watching? … … Not so much.

How?

pipx dejensen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

It…

1. Downloads a video using yt-dlp (or uses a local file)
2. Extracts word-level timestamps using OpenAI’s Whisper
3. Identifies gaps between words that exceed a threshold (default 0.2 seconds)
4. Uses ffmpeg to cut out the gaps and reassemble the video

Requirements

• 🐍 Python 3.10+
• 📼 ffmpeg and ffprobe must be installed and in PATH

License

WTFPL + Warranty. Do whatever you like, but don’t blame me if your punchlines land early.