u/iMakeHotSauce

I recently started a YouTube channel for my online thrift shop, where I showcase neat vintage and collectible items (think New Old Stock RadioShack gear, vintage electronics, weird retro finds, etc.).

Right now, my workflow is pretty bare-bones: I set up my phone on a tripod, film a single-take, first-person overview of an item in decent lighting, and talk through some history and facts about it.

The problem is the editing phase. Most of the AI tools recommended everywhere right now are hyper-focused on clipping long videos down into TikToks, Reels, or YouTube Shorts. That's not what I need yet. I’m trying to process a normal, full-length YouTube video which ideally an AI tool that can automatically clean up the raw footage by removing dead air, awkward pauses, and long silences, while keeping it as a cohesive, standard horizontal video. (I'll worry about cutting it down for shorts after the core video is polished).

Are there any AI-driven editors or clean-up tools specifically built for long-form creators that handle this kind of automated rough cut well? Or is it still mostly a manual timeline job in traditional software (which I don't have much experience or time for)?

Basically, I have an online thrift shop that I recently created a youtube channel. I have filmed a first-person showcasing of some interesting products I have like new old stock radioshack items, new in box scrubbing bubbles automatic shower washer.....stuff like that. Things that are kind of collectible or vintage and sought-after by collectors and people who just like neat older stuff.

So the video is just me behind a camera (phone) filming the item in descent light and showing it off while stating some facts about it. It's all just one shot.

I was thinking there may be an AI tool out there that specializes in taking content like that and automatically editing it into something interesting and engaging while also remove all the silent time and stuff.

So far, all the stuff I see being recommended by Gemini and search engines are tools that clip videos to turn them into tiktok videos or youtube shorts. That's not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm trying to turn this full video into a decent, normal video to post on Youtube then maybe cut it up for youtube shorts, tiktok, insta, etc.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

It could lead to your content being messed up, but probably not. With language tool, I find myself quickly skimming everything that is marked by the tool and then just rapidly clicking the button to make all the changes. Rarely is it ever wanting to make a change I wouldn't want it to make. And if it did, it wouldn't be the end of the world. I don't use tools like this so haphazardly for anything business related.

I would really like an option to be able to just have a hotkey or something that would make all the recommended changes at once. It would save so much time.

Do any of you know if this exists? Thanks.