Pause finder: find the long pauses in a video
Last updated: 2026-11-03
Pick a video or audio file. The Pause finder shows how many pauses of more than 0.7 seconds it has, how many seconds of silence they add up to, and where they are on a strip. It runs in your browser: the file is read on your device and is not uploaded, and you do not need an account.
Choose a file
Nothing is uploaded. The file stays on your device.
How it decides what a pause is
Your browser decodes the sound of the file. The Pause finder measures how loud it is every 20 milliseconds and sets a quiet level from the recording itself: 28 dB under its loud speech, never above -30 dBFS and never below -60 dBFS, so a quiet room and a noisy one are read fairly. A pause is a stretch of at least 0.7 seconds below that level. A burst shorter than 60 milliseconds inside a pause, such as a click, does not end it.
The seconds of silence are the seconds inside those pauses. Shorter gaps between words are not counted.
What it does not find
It measures loudness, not meaning. A pause is not always a mistake: a short one can be a breath or a beat before a point. Repeated takes, false starts and filler words have sound in them, so this tool does not find them.
It does not cut anything and it does not change your file. To cut the pauses, the repeated takes and the false starts and get an edited video back, that is what Cutora does.
Limits
It reads files up to 500 MB, and only the ones your browser can decode: an MP4 with AAC sound, MP3, WAV and M4A usually work. If a file does not open, export its audio or try another format. Long recordings take longer on a slow device.