Cutting out foul language - DvD

[asdf]

I hope this is the right place to post this. If not bump it wherever please.

Situation:
I have a person who will pay me to edit his dvds. He for the most part needs the foul language taken out in order to show it to his kids.

Question:
What program can i use to bleep out or this foul language, and what all do I have to do to make it work. I guess what I am looking for is for the audio to just go silent while the word is being said. Is there any easy way to do this. The dvd quality has to stay fairly decent and not be out of sync or anything.

Thanks for your help

~ Agamemnon

[awlchu]

Assuming the source is 2 channel, I would use goldwave.

www.goldwave.com

Mute the sections that you want and remux in the audio with any DVD authoring program. I guess your could have two audio tracks, kid friendly and over 18....

I assume you know how to pull the contents off the DVD?

My process is this:

- rip DVD source with dvddecrypter, demux at the same time
- open audio with goldwave, mute portions, save
- author DVD with DVD lab using the elementary streams
- write out DVD structure and play on your PC looking for sync problems
- T/S then final burn on DVD+-RW! Try the DVD on target players
- Burn final copies

[Rommie]

you could try audacity rather than goldwave as it's free and quite powerful.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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[chaseru]

I've done this to about a dozen DVDs.

I don't try to include the original menus, extras, or multiple audio and language files. If you want to include those and edit the words, those skills are beyond me.

If the movie will not fit on one DVD, I first use DVDShrink and save it to an ISO file and load with a DVD emulator, e.g., Deamon Tools.

1. DVDDecryptor to demux the video, audio, and subtitles streams (you want separate files for each).

2. Run the subtitles through SubRip; save subtitles as a text file. Open the text file with Word and search for and flag the naughty words. You may think you know where all the bad words are in a movie but you'll be surprized at how many there really are. You have to rip the subtitles to find all of the little buggars.

3. Use HeadAC3he to convert the ac3 audio to two channel wav file.

4. Use your favorite audio editor to open the wav file. Most editors allow you to reduce volume to "zero" for selected segments of the audio. I use WavePurity. The SubRip text file will give you the time stamp for the offending words. Save the cleaned-up wav file.

5. Convert the wav file to MP2. TMPGEnc can do it.

6. Author the m2v and mp2 files.

[jeex]

http://cleanfilms.com/

[asdf]

Alright a few questions (probably stupid but im trying!). First what exactally is 2 channel. Are most dvd movies 2 channel? How exactally can I find out if a movie (Jurassic Park 3 for example) is 2 channel. Next; with DvDDecripter I dont see an option to demux. In the setup I see something about it but i dont quite understand how to do it correctly. Now with a program called MPEG Video Wizard I do see a demux option and I tried demuxing and it supposedly successfully did so. When I tried opening the one of the two files it created it was just the audio. This is what I want. The other file I opened should contain the video if I am thinking the right way, but when I open it nothing happens. No video, no audio, just... nothing. Also would it be possible or easier to edit out the foul language with the MPEG Video Wizard, or should I stick with the programs mentioned above. Can someone explain how to demux while decrypting with DvDDecripter. Sorry, I just am not too good at all this DvD stuff and never really work with video/audio files much. BTW thank you all for all of the help. You people rock :>

~ Agamemnon

[ZippyP.]

You can edit the audio with Mpeg video wizard if you choose.