[thegoleffect]

Congrats on the launch Shah! I can tell you stayed up late giddy for this launch :D. As another peer building for video creators, I am delighted to see more efficiency features like this released.

This approach was the one I tried first also (I also tried the frequency one fwiw, which has its own, worse drawbacks). But using loudness runs into issues if the source loudness isn't (relatively) even across the entire source media. Using a single sensitivity setting like this would be a problem if:

* recording gain is set to automatic, and there are sudden changes in noise floor like wind (if recorded in 24-bit or lower)

* crew adjusts gain partway through recording (big no-no but happens)

* talent/host moves in and out of microphone sweet spot

* talent/host adjusts themselves in a squeaky chair during silence or transition-to-silence (or coughs, or breaths loudly, or ambulance goes by...)

If you apply the edit w/ a single sensitivity and something like the above is true, it would cut in the wrong place. Unfortunately, you would have to watch the entire show, skipping to boundaries with your full attention to know that ever got a cut wrong.

[dceddia]

The single-level approach is what Recut does too, and it tries to take a guess at a threshold with clustering but it's not always perfect. Maybe a better way to go would be a dynamic noise gate or kalman filtering or something.

Vidbase is looking awesome btw! I bet it's going to be huge. It looks like you've paid an insane amount of attention to the details.

[shahahmed]

this is super useful insight for us, thank you for sharing. yeah another product we're working on is "auto audio leveling", which I hope solves some of this, but we'll see.

and yes, I was very excited, thank you for checking it out, Van!