How to Fix Ums in a Listing Video

To fix the ums in a listing video, upload the recording, let an automatic cleanup pass find and remove every "um," "uh," and long pause, review the marked cuts, and download a clean walkthrough. The whole thing takes minutes and does not require re-recording the property or learning an editor.

Every agent runs into this. You film a great walkthrough of a home in one take, you watch it back, and there they are — seven ums in the kitchen, a corrected price in the primary suite, and a long silent stretch while you walked to the backyard. The home looks great. The narration undercuts it. Here is exactly how to fix that without redoing the whole thing.

Why Listing Videos Fill Up With Ums

An "um" is just the sound of thinking out loud. When you walk a property and narrate features as you go, your brain is deciding what to point out next while you are still describing the last thing. The gap between those two jobs comes out as filler. It happens to experienced agents and new ones alike, and it is not a sign you did anything wrong.

The problem is only that these small stumbles are very noticeable on playback. A buyer watching a listing video is forming a first impression of both the property and you. Every "um" is a tiny speed bump, and a long pause reads as hesitation even when you were just moving between rooms. Left in, they make an otherwise strong walkthrough feel unpolished.

Option One: Re-Record Until It Is Perfect (Don't)

The instinct is to film the walkthrough again and try to speak flawlessly. Skip this. Re-recording rarely comes out cleaner — you just trade one set of ums for a new set, and now you have spent twenty minutes walking the home twice. Trying to suppress filler while you film also makes your delivery stiff and unnatural, which is worse than the ums themselves.

The better approach is to record the way you naturally talk and fix the stumbles afterward.

Option Two: Fix the Ums Automatically

This is the fast, reliable way. Record the walkthrough once, at a natural pace, and don't worry about mistakes. Then run the recording through a cleanup pass that removes the filler words and dead air for you. It reads every word in the recording, finds each "um," "uh," and "like," and removes the matching moment from the video — along with the long silent gaps between rooms.

Because it works from the actual words rather than just listening for silence, it catches the quick ums buried in the middle of a sentence, not only the obvious pauses. A short crossfade smooths each cut so the walkthrough plays seamlessly, without any spliced-together feeling.

Step by Step

Here is the full process from raw file to publish-ready.

Step 1 — Record naturally. Walk the home at a steady pace and narrate features as you go. Correcting a price or a square-footage number mid-sentence is fine; it gets handled in cleanup.

Step 2 — Upload the recording. Drop the video file in. There is nothing to install and no timeline to learn.

Step 3 — Pick a cleanup strength. A medium setting suits most listing walkthroughs, trimming stumbles and pauses without cutting so tightly that the pacing feels rushed. Short just-listed clips often do well on a tighter setting, since every second counts more in a 60-second video.

Step 4 — Review what was marked. Before you download, look at the transcript with every proposed cut highlighted. This catches anything worth keeping, like a deliberate pause before you reveal a standout feature. It takes two or three minutes.

Step 5 — Download and distribute. Approve the cuts and download a clean walkthrough ready for the MLS, your website, an email campaign, or a client's inbox. The same file works everywhere.

What It Looks Like Before and After

Watching the raw file next to the cleaned one makes the difference obvious. In the raw version, the walkthrough wanders — stumbles on the street name, the corrected price, the quiet stretch between the living room and the kitchen. In the cleaned version, all of that is gone, and what is left sounds like you rehearsed the whole thing. The home gets to be the focus instead of the fumbles.

Agents often find the cleaned version runs shorter too, simply because the dead air is gone. A tighter walkthrough holds a buyer's attention longer, which is exactly what you want from a listing video.

Make It a Habit

If you film listings every week, the easiest approach is to clean up each walkthrough the same day you record it, before you move on to the next property. That turns cleanup into a five-minute step rather than a growing pile of raw files you dread editing later. For a broader look at how this fits a listing routine, see the page for real estate agents, or read the full listing video cleanup guide for the process from recording through final download.

The Bottom Line

You do not have to record a listing walkthrough five times to get a clean take, and you do not have to hire an editor to fix the ums. Record it once, run it through an automatic cleanup pass, review the cuts, and download a polished video. The stumbles disappear and the home takes center stage.

Ready to try it on your next listing? Upload a walkthrough and get a clean version back in minutes, or see pricing to find the plan that fits how many homes you film.