A ten-minute talking head video should not take six hours to edit. Yet that is exactly where most editors land: an hour hunting for the good takes, two hours pulling out dead air and stumbles, another hour switching camera angles, and then captions eat whatever is left. None of that time is creative. It is janitorial work, and almost all of it can be compressed.

This guide covers the four levers that actually move the needle when you want to edit talking head videos faster: automated silence removal, text-based editing, a repeatable multicam cutting rhythm, and a keyboard-first timeline habit. At the end you'll find realistic before/after time budgets so you can measure whether the changes are working for you — not just take our word for it.