Smooth jump cuts

Cutting filler words, pauses and retakes from a recording leaves a jump cut at every join: the speaker's head moves a little between one frame and the next. A punch-in hides it. Draw the picture slightly larger on one side of the cut and the jump reads as a change of shot.

Punch in at the cuts

1. Choose Enhance > Smooth jump cuts, or Enhance > Smooth Jump Cuts… in the menu bar.
2. Set Punch in to. It starts at 110 %, which is enough to read as a new shot without the face growing noticeably.
3. Rooster lists each cut between the words either side of it. Press a row's time to hear the cut with a moment either side. Untick any cut to leave as it is.
4. Press Apply.

Rooster punches in on every other stretch between the ticked cuts, keeping the point 40 % down the picture still so the face stays where it was. A cut under a picture that fills the screen, or under a transition, is already hidden, so Rooster leaves it alone and says how many it skipped.

Nothing is cut and your recording is unchanged: the punch-in is how the picture is drawn. One Undo (⌘Z) takes every punch-in off.

Take the punch-ins off

Press Undo (⌘Z) straight after, or open Smooth jump cuts again, press Select none, and press the button, which now reads Remove punch-ins. Running Smooth jump cuts again after more edits rewrites the punch-ins for the cuts you have now, at the zoom they already use.