[Sarah John]: If you'd like to learn how to quickly turn a clip like this: "What the flip flopping dang dang darn are you talking about?"
Into this: "What the [censored] are you talking about?"
without having to manually go in and adjust the audio for every single unsavory word, then I have great news for you.
I'm Sarah, and I'm going to show you how to use Premiere's Text panel to assemble your video, rearrange clips, and make sure your content stays profanity free using the Censor Tool.
Edit your video by editing the text
First things first.
Let's go into Premiere and import our footage.
On the Import screen under Settings, we will enable the Automatic transcript option.
As you might be able to guess, this will make sure our clips are automatically transcribed as they're pulled into the program.
Then we'll go up to the Window menu and open up the Text-Based Editing Workspace.
When we drag our imported clip down to the Timeline, the automatic transcription will show here in the Text panel.
We will uncheck Follow active monitor down here so that the transcript stays focused on the Timeline transcript while we edit.
When we move the Cursor over the transcript, each word gets highlighted, and clicking on a word moves the Playhead to where that word is being said in the Timeline.
And the reverse is also true.
If we move the Playhead, the Cursor in the Text panel moves. [silent clip playing] We can assemble a sequence for this take by going through the text, and if there's a word or even a full sentence we'd like to totally remove, we can select that here in the transcript and delete it by hitting the Backspace key.
We can do the same with pauses, which are represented by the bracketed ellipsis.
As you can see, when we delete those, we create a cut in the video, and the sequence will continue to change based on our edits to the text.
Using this method, we can go through and get a quick rough cut of our video edit.
Build your own custom sensor list
Now let's go in and get rid of all those flipping swears.
Sorry, I mean those [censored] swears.
Up here under the Ellipsis button, we can see that we have a Censored words list.
This list lets us add our own list of words we want to censor, or we can import a list if we have one.
Let's go ahead and add those and then we'll select Save.
Now when we go up to the Filter button, we can click Censored words to highlight any of the words in our list that show up in the transcript.
Automatically apply a bleep effect
Then we'll go up to Apply Effect and select one of the choices here.
There are a few preloaded options, and we can also add our own if we have one.
Let's go with the Bleep.
It's a classic.
Selecting the Apply button will censor the selected word, and Apply to all, will put the effect on every word in the transcript that appears on the Censored words list. [silent clip playing] When we look at the Timeline and playback the video, we can see where those effects have been automatically applied over all those words.
"What the [censored] What the [censored] ... are you talking about?
[censored] flop.
And there we go, a perfectly good G-rated video.
Incorporating text-based editing into your post-production process can save you a lot of [censored] time.
Happy editing!
Note: Stock assets provided are for practice purposes only. See terms.
What you’ll learn
Import and transcribe your clips automatically
Enable automatic transcription to create an editable text transcription of the dialogue in your clips.
Edit your video by editing the text
Use the Text-Based Editing workspace to assemble and refine your sequence. Remove pauses and trim or reorder sentences from the transcript and your cuts instantly update in the timeline.
Build your custom censor list
Add the words you want to censor, or import and existing list. Save your list for use in future edits.
Automatically apply a bleep effect
Choose from standard effects like bleep or silence, or add your own custom sound to censor all flagged words at once.
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