bleeping out a bad word
I want to use a video clip in a Keynote presentation. Is there a way to edit the clip in either imovie or garageband to bleep out a bad word?
Roger
Roger
imac, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Just to add to rgw-arts good advice:
Go to the View menu and select Show Clip Volume Levels. Then go to your video clip where you want to bleep out the objectionable audio part. You will see a horizontal audio line running through the video clip. You can raise, lower, or mute the volume of the clip by raising and lowering the line with your arrow cursor. If you pull the line all the way to the bottom, the sound in the video clip is muted from that point forward. So, find the place in the video clip containing the objectionable word. Drag the audio line down to the bottom at that point. (You will see a little yellow dot at the point that you click on the line with your cursor. Drag that dot to the bottom.) That will result in muting the video clip from that point to the end of the clip. But you don't want that. You just want to mute a tiny portion of the audio track where the word is contained. You do that by next placing your cursor on the line just to the right of the point where you dragged the yellow dot, and then dragging the line back upward again to unmute the sound for the remaining portion of the clip. Now you will be left with a downward spike in the volume line at the point where the objectionable word is contained, thereby muting or bleeping out that word. You may need to make some adjustments. Just play around with it. If the silent portion of the clip is annoying, you can extract some background noise from somewhere else in the clip, and place it in the audio track below to bridge that gap.
I suppose there are other ways to do this, but the above is one of them that has worked satisfactorily for me. You could also overlay some music or other sound to blot out the objectionable word. Or you can split the video clip and trim out the portion where the objectionable word is contained, perhaps rejoining the clip with a short cross dissolve transition.
Hope this helps.
Go to the View menu and select Show Clip Volume Levels. Then go to your video clip where you want to bleep out the objectionable audio part. You will see a horizontal audio line running through the video clip. You can raise, lower, or mute the volume of the clip by raising and lowering the line with your arrow cursor. If you pull the line all the way to the bottom, the sound in the video clip is muted from that point forward. So, find the place in the video clip containing the objectionable word. Drag the audio line down to the bottom at that point. (You will see a little yellow dot at the point that you click on the line with your cursor. Drag that dot to the bottom.) That will result in muting the video clip from that point to the end of the clip. But you don't want that. You just want to mute a tiny portion of the audio track where the word is contained. You do that by next placing your cursor on the line just to the right of the point where you dragged the yellow dot, and then dragging the line back upward again to unmute the sound for the remaining portion of the clip. Now you will be left with a downward spike in the volume line at the point where the objectionable word is contained, thereby muting or bleeping out that word. You may need to make some adjustments. Just play around with it. If the silent portion of the clip is annoying, you can extract some background noise from somewhere else in the clip, and place it in the audio track below to bridge that gap.
I suppose there are other ways to do this, but the above is one of them that has worked satisfactorily for me. You could also overlay some music or other sound to blot out the objectionable word. Or you can split the video clip and trim out the portion where the objectionable word is contained, perhaps rejoining the clip with a short cross dissolve transition.
Hope this helps.