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[Im1oftheOceanic6]

I would like to edit some explicit language out of a song I am using to make a video.What is the best way to edit out words without effecting the overall sound of the song?

I was thinking about just splitting the audio track and cutting out the word.
I want the song to flow so it doesn't sound like I cut anything out.

I will be using Sony Vegas to make my video.

Macaila

[nightdancer342]

Do what they do on the radio:

Splice the bad word (just get the expletive) and right click on the spliced clip of the song (the bad word) and right click on it and push "Reverse"

It won't interrupt the time of the music that way and that's technically what they do on the radio to cut out a bad word.



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[Im1oftheOceanic6]

Thank you for the tip. I hadn't thought of reversing it.
I will try that.

Macaila

[Aislynn]

Oh, I've never tried reversing it before, I'll definitely give that a try myself!

Over the years, I've pulled every trick I could think of to either cut or cover a curse word and they each work in varying degrees depending on the song: I've just cut the word out and blended the song back together (will work if the beats and music will be kind enough to match back up ), I've looked for the radio edited version on Youtube and patched the edited section into the song over my non-edited version (usually the YT version is lesser quality because I've had to rip it so I don't want to use that version in its entirety) and I've also just cut that entire line or verse out of the song if I can't cover it any other way. Or if I'm using other audio in the song, I've tried covering the word with a sound effect as well.

[Im1oftheOceanic6]

I'm working with the song You're Beautiful by James Blunt and I am going to edit the F word out.It's pretty quick so I don't think anything I do will
be too noticeable.

Now that I have a few new tricks on how to edit words out I might even do some Green Day songs I've wanted to do for quite awhile but never did because I wasn't sure how to edit out the bad language.

Macaila

[nightdancer342]

Ah, I edit music all the time and that's the easiest way to do it so you don't mess up the timing of the song- especially if it's a word in passing- it's difficult to splice the music to edit it out without making it sound jumpy- Since music has their counts and syncs, it's hard to match them back up again unless you're a musician or dancer and you're trained in that sort of thing.
Glad i could help!
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