Hi fellow professors! I'm teaching a hybrid course (as many of us do), recording videos with OBS Studio (to place myself in front of the slides, Twitch-style), and trimming the very start and very end with "Free Video Cutter Joiner". But I don't re-cut the middle, which means that all the ahems, uhms, awkward pauses, and slips of the tongue remain there.

Cutting pauses and bad takes out, for a more intense take, seems to be one of the main things modern vloggers do. Sure, sometimes it's overdone, and pauses between sentences are almost shorter than pauses within sentences, but in more mainstream cases it just makes the video a bit more dynamic. And people can still pause the video when they learn.

So, the question. Do you know a good free (or cheap) software to cut pauses and bad takes out without decoding-encoding, and without desynchronyzing the audio? (I'm on Windows if it matters) Something that's intuitive and simple enough to not add too many extra steps to the process (I'm already recording for about one and a half full day a week, for ~2 hours of final video, with all the reworking the ppt, practicing, uploading, reviewing the auto-generated captions etc.) Can you recommend anything? Thanks!