How Can I Mute Small Sections?

whatyouare wrote on 2/16/2010, 2:29 PM

Have some video clips that I'm using in a presentation - some of the clips have cursing. I want to mute these instances - new to the program. Thanks!

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ShawnGN wrote on 2/16/2010, 5:22 PM

I'm sure there are different ways, but you could split that scene around the swear by putting the timeline cursor at the moment just before and after the word and pressing the S button to split, then drag that portions audio level to zero for that brief bit. Or maybe just add a beep?

Chienworks wrote on 2/16/2010, 5:29 PM

Insert / Audio envelopes / Volume. You'll get a thin blue line through the audio track. Double-click on the line to add points called "nodes". Wherever there is a piece you want to get rid of add 4 nodes, 2 just before and 2 just after the item. Drag the inner two nodes down. Repeat as necessary wherever anything needs to be silenced.

The sudden silences might sound weird. One technique to hide them better is to add another audio track and wherever you've chopped out a word, fade in some "room tone". This is a section of the audio from the main recording that is nothing but quiet background noises. This way when the main audio is cut, you'll still hear background to fill in the blank.

richard-amirault wrote on 2/16/2010, 7:43 PM

In both of those instances it helps to *expand* the timeline enough so that you can see (on the audio waveform) the single word you want to delete.

That much expansion is usually too much to do "normal" editing .. so I usually compress the timeline after I make the edit until I need to expand it again.