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Retakes

Remove retakes automatically, by your script

Most retake removal is a tool guessing which repeated phrase to drop. honmay has your script, so it doesn't have to guess: it checks every take against what you meant to say and keeps the cleanest one for each paragraph.

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Free to download at launch. Every feature works; free exports are 720p with a small watermark. macOS 26 or later.

Launch post
5 of 7 paragraphs clean · 2 to check
ScriptStudio3Review
Export…
#ParagraphTakeResultMatch

To check (2)

5Now that is all we ask. Everything else waits until it matters, and a new clinic takes its first booking in under five minutes.Take 6 CheckLong pause (2.1 s)88%
7CTA BIf you build onboarding too, I would love to compare notes. Send me a message.Choose… No takeNo take covers this paragraph—

Matched the script (5)Hide

1Hook AWe cut our onboarding from nine screens to two. Here is what we learned.Take 1 Clean100%
2Hook BNine onboarding screens. Our customers used two of them.Take 2 Clean94%
3Last spring, a new clinic took forty minutes to get started with Larkspur. Most of that time went on settings nobody needs on day one.Take 1 Clean98%
4So we watched twelve clinics sign up and wrote down every question they asked. Almost all of them came down to two things: when they open, and who works when.Take 5 Clean100%
6CTA AIf you run a clinic, try it free this month. The link is in the comments.Take 7 Clean97%
→Check the marked paragraphs, then export (⌥⌘E).Export…

Two ways to find a retake

Repeat detection

Works from the transcript alone

  • Looks for phrases you said twice and keeps the last one
  • Can't tell a retake from a point you repeated on purpose
  • Doesn't know a line was skipped, because it never saw the line
  • Usually leaves you to check every cut

Script matching

What honmay does

  • Knows every word you meant to say, in order
  • Scores each take on how much of each paragraph it covers
  • Catches skipped words, restarts and long pauses, and names them
  • Same script and same takes give the same edit, every time

Every pick comes with a reason

Review lists each paragraph with its take and one of three results. The reason is written in your script's words, so you can judge it without watching the footage.

  • CleanEvery word of the script, nothing extra.
  • CleanSkipped 1 of 9 words
  • CheckRestarted at “and wrote down”
  • CheckLong pause (2.1 s)
  • No takeNo take covers this paragraph
Paragraph 4 · three takes

So we watched twelve clinics sign up and wrote down every question they asked. Almost all of them came down to two things: when they open, and who works when.

Pick a take to see what was heard.

What was heard · Take 5

Clean

So we watched twelve clinics sign up and wrote down every question they asked. Almost all of them came down to two things: when they open, and who works when.

Struck through: not heard. Faint: said, but not in the script.

Covers 100% of the paragraph

Kept for paragraph 4. Every word of the script, nothing extra.

You stay in charge

Review opens on the paragraphs that need a look; the ones that matched the script stay folded. Press 1 to 9 to use another take, play any of them with Space, or press Record Paragraph Again and the Studio opens on that paragraph. Nothing is ever deleted: takes are only added.

Tell it how you read

Choose Word for word when every word matters, Close to the script (the default) when small slips are fine, or In my own words when you paraphrase. In your own words, captions use what you actually said.

Where it fits among other tools

Descript's Remove Retakes and the AutoCut Repeat plugin for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve look for repeats in a transcript. DaVinci Resolve Studio's IntelliScript matches clips to a script inside a professional editor. honmay is the one that also gives you the prompter and the recording, explains each pick, and hands you finished files: every hook and call to action, every format, captions included.

honmay vs Descript →

Questions

About retakes

How do I remove retakes automatically?

In honmay you don't remove them by hand at all. Paste your script, record as many takes as you need, and each paragraph keeps its cleanest take. Review shows which take it kept and why; export when it looks right.

Does it work on footage I already recorded?

No. honmay edits the takes it records against the script it prompted, because that is what makes the match reliable.

What if I go off script?

Pick Close to the script or In my own words. honmay still finds the best take of each paragraph; how strict it is depends on the mode.