Late 2020 I had the same thought, I was making screencasts and hated doing all the cutting to turn my 45 minutes of mistakes into a 3 minute video. So I made a similar script in Node, where it used ffmpeg’s silencedetect and instead of outputting a new video, it saved an EDL file that I could import into an editor like DaVinci Resolve, and then I could fine tune the edits.

As soon as that worked I wanted more - mostly just really wanted the process to be interactive and real-time, instead of the run-check-tweak-repeat cycle of using a script.

So I ended up down the rabbit hole of building a video editor instead of making screencasts, and now Recut exists (https://getrecut.com).

It’s basically an interactive silence remover. I still haven’t finished those screencasts but now I have an editor haha. While it’s pretty basic, it’s saving folks a bunch of time, and there’s lots more cool stuff I want to add between automations and basic manual editing features.