Feature

Find the edit in the words.

Read through your recording, select the words you don’t want and strike them out. The matching moment leaves the picture and the sound. Fixing a typo in a caption is a separate edit and doesn’t cut anything.

Transcript00:42

Okay, so um, just let me start again. Here’s the step you need: open Settings and choose Export.

6 words struck out · 2.4 s removed
Illustration, not a screen capture. Press the button to see the cut undone.

Two kinds of edit, kept separate

Delete the words

Removes that passage from the actual video: picture and sound. Use it for “um”s, false starts and detours.

Correct the text

Fixes a name, spelling or punctuation in the written words and captions. Your recorded voice isn’t changed.

How cutting by words works

  1. Open Script. It’s the main editor, with your words laid out like a document.
  2. Select the words you don’t want and delete them. Filler words are underlined so you can remove them in one click.
  3. The matching moment leaves the picture and the sound.
  4. Play from just before the join to just after it. If it’s wrong, one ordinary Undo restores the passage; Redo reapplies it.

Recorded something new? Automatic tidy has usually already removed the ums and long pauses before you start.

Leave enough breathing room around a cut for the viewer to follow the screen action. Listen as well as read: a transcript can look fine while a cut sounds abrupt.

Want the full walkthrough? Read Cut mistakes by editing the transcript.

In the app

Script is the main editor. Type to fix words; delete words to cut them.

Questions

Does typing new words change what I said?

No. Text correction fixes the written words and captions only. To remove part of the recording, delete the words instead. Typing new words doesn’t create new speech.

Can I undo a cut?

Yes. One Undo restores the passage and its struck-out marker together, and Redo reapplies them.

Does it cut the picture too?

Yes. Deleting words removes that interval from the edited picture and sound, so check that no screen action the viewer needs is lost.

Make your next video on your Mac.

Free to download. No watermark on Free exports. Requires macOS 15 or later.