Video editors are going to hate this. GitHub has free tools that can automate subtitles, remove silences, clean audio, and speed up editing. Here are 10 repos that feel like cheating: 1. Auto-Editor Automatically cut dead air from recordings. Adjust the pauses you keep and export editable timelines for Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut. Free command-line tool. github.com/WyattBlue/auto-ed… 2. AutoSubs Generate subtitles on your computer, identify speakers, and send captions directly into DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, or After Effects. github.com/tmoroney/auto-sub… 3. DeepFilterNet Suppress background noise in voice recordings locally. Clean up your audio track before putting it back into your video. github.com/Rikorose/DeepFilt… 4. Audio Separator Split vocals and instrumental music into separate tracks using pretrained models. Process the parts independently instead of fighting the whole mix. github.com/nomadkaraoke/pyth… 5. PySceneDetect Automatically detect scene changes and split long videos into individual clips. Export timestamps without manually marking every cut. github.com/Breakthrough/PySc… 6. FFsubsync Fix subtitles that appear too early or too late. Automatically align an existing subtitle file with the speech in your video. github.com/smacke/ffsubsync 7. FunClip Cut videos by selecting words from the transcript. Choose passages or speakers, then export the matching footage with subtitles. github.com/modelscope/FunCli… 8. StoryToolkitAI Search your footage by meaning, find relevant moments, and assemble story selections you can export into your editing software. github.com/octimot/StoryTool… 9. Shutter Encoder Convert and compress footage through a desktop interface built around FFmpeg. Prepare your media without memorizing command-line options. github.com/paulpacifico/shut… 10. Editly Assemble videos from reusable instructions. Combine clips, images, titles, transitions, and music, with automatic audio ducking and normalization. github.com/mifi/editly Which editing task wastes the most time for you?