auto-editor path/to/video.mp4          # writes video_ALTERED.mp4
auto-editor video.mp4 -o out.mp4       # choose the output name

auto-editor :mic                                      # → mic_ALTERED.wav
auto-editor :mic --sample-rate 44.1kHz -o trimmed.m4a
auto-editor :mic --edit audio:threshold=6%

auto-editor video.mp4 --edit audio:threshold=0.04
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit audio:-19dB            # dB form
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit motion:threshold=0.02
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit blackdetect            # cut to remove black: --edit "(not blackdetect:0.98)"

auto-editor multi.mov --edit "(or audio:stream=0 audio:threshold=10%,stream=1)"
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit "(or audio:0.03 motion:0.06)"   # threshold is always positional arg 1
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit "(not audio:0.04)"              # invert: keep the quiet parts

# Cut silence (0) and keep speech (1) as usual, but also zoom wherever there's motion (2)
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit:2 motion:0.02 --when:2 zoom:2
auto-editor video.mp4 -e:2 motion:0.1 -w:2 speed:2        # -e/-w short forms

# Three tiers: cut silence, keep quiet speech at 1x, speed up the loud parts
auto-editor talk.mp4 --edit audio:-30dB --edit:2 audio:-12dB --when:2 speed:1.5

auto-editor video.mp4 --margin 0.2sec        # default: pad each kept section by 0.2s both sides
auto-editor video.mp4 --margin 0.3s,1.5sec   # 0.3s before, 1.5s after (avoids clipped words)
auto-editor video.mp4 --smooth 0.2s,0.1s     # min-cut 0.2s, min-clip 0.1s (default); --smooth 0 = off

auto-editor video.mp4 --cut 0,30 -10sec,end    # drop first 30 frames and last 10s
auto-editor video.mp4 --keep 0,30sec           # force-keep first 30s regardless of loudness
auto-editor video.mp4 --set-speed 2,0,30       # SPEED,START,STOP: 2x over frames 0–29
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit 1 --cut 0,5sec    # no auto cuts, just drop first 5s
auto-editor video.mp4 --edit 0 --keep 0,5sec   # keep only the first 5s

auto-editor video.mp4 --when-active cut --when-inactive nil   # keep the silence, cut the loud parts

auto-editor video.mp4 -c:v hevc -b:v 0       # variable bitrate
auto-editor video.mp4 -b:v 230k              # target a bitrate to shrink the file
auto-editor video.mp4 -crf 23 -preset medium # quality-based encoding
auto-editor video.mp4 --scale 0.5            # halve the resolution
auto-editor video.mp4 -anorm ebu             # EBU R128 loudness normalize (or peak:-3)