Remove ums from recorded lectures
A recorded lecture gets watched again before an exam. erm finds the ums, erms and long gaps in a lecture or classroom recording and removes the filler words you choose, so the lesson is clearer and a little shorter.
Recorded lessons students can follow
Lecturers and teachers talk for hours and rarely have time to edit. A quick pass to remove the hesitation helps students who rewatch to revise, especially those who find fast speech hard to follow.
What erm finds
Last week we looked at um supply and demand. 5.0 s pause Today, erm we’ll see what happens when uh the government sets a price.
How erm helps with lecture recordings
- One pass over a recorded lecture, with nothing to learn first.
- Student voices and questions stay, because you review each cut.
- A one-off price that fits a school or department budget, with no yearly renewal.
- Recordings never leave your Mac, which keeps pupils and students private.
Remove filler words from lecture recordings in three steps
- Drop in your video. A .mov, .mp4 or .m4v of any length, from your camera, phone or screen recorder.
- Review the cuts. erm marks each um, erm, uh and long pause. Keep any you like.
- Save the edit. Done on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.
Prefer to do it by hand? Read how to remove ums from a video on a Mac, with or without erm.
Tips for cleaner lecture recordings
- Clean the lecture before you upload it to Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard or Google Classroom, so students only see the tidy version.
- Keep the pauses where you wrote on the board or waited for an answer. Students need those moments too.
- If you record every week, do a quick pass the same day, while you still remember which pauses mattered.
Questions
Is there an education discount?
Not at the moment. Your first 3 videos are free, then it’s $29.99 once or $19.99 a year.
Is it okay to use with pupils in the recording?
Nothing is uploaded, so the recording stays on your Mac. Follow your own school’s rules for recording and storing video of pupils.
Will it work on a lecture capture recording?
Yes, as long as you can download it as a .mov, .mp4 or .m4v file.
Can I use lessons recorded on an iPad or phone?
Yes. Move the video to your Mac first, then drop it into erm. iPhone and iPad versions of erm are planned.
Other ways to use erm
Online courses
Teaching on camera is tiring, and re-recording a lesson for one stumble is worse. erm finds the ums, erms and long thinking pauses in each course video, and removes the filler words you choose.
Screen recordings
Talking while you click is hard. The voiceover fills with ums and long gaps while you look for the thing to show. erm finds those filler words and silences in your screen recording or tutorial and cuts them out.
Interviews
People think while they speak, so an interview is full of ums and gaps. erm finds the filler words and long pauses in an interview recording, and tidies it so the answers are what you remember.