Awkward Pause Cutter

Problem

Spoken videos often contain audible breaths, long pauses, and awkward breaks. This skill targets the “cut the breath” use case: it is not meant for full video editing, but for removing silent, breath, or pause segments by rule so the pacing feels tighter.

How It Works

It calls the mcp.breathCutter capability through the installed whaleclip-cli or the WhaleClip desktop CLI. A typical workflow checks that the command is enabled, verifies login and VIP status, runs the cutting job, and parses the single-line JSON from stdout. Key parameters include:

• --input: required input video
• --outputDir: output directory; default naming often uses *_breath
• --threshold: silence threshold, default -20 dB, commonly tuned between -15 and -30
• --padding: milliseconds preserved around silence, default 30 ms
• --reverse: when true, it preserves silence segments instead of removing them

On success, check ok === true and the output path; failures usually point to an unopened command, expired login, missing VIP, or an unknown command.

Boundaries

The skill is limited to cutting pauses and breaths. It does not handle speed changes, color grading, BGM, or smart sound effects. It depends on WhaleClip desktop, a valid login, and VIP access, and it should not expose tokens, stderr logs, internal fields, or interface details to users.