Smart Profanity

Smart Profanity bleeping the swear words of an interview in the timeline

Smart Profanity transcribes your sequence, finds the words that video platforms and social networks flag (swearing, insults, sexual terms, violence, self-harm, hate, hard drugs), and bleeps or mutes them on the voice track only. Music, sound effects and picture keep playing. Every word is judged in its context: “kill time”, “you killed it” or a first name that looks like a swear word are never bleeped. You review everything before anything changes on the timeline. Works in Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Quick Start

Open Smart Profanity

Open the Tools Menu and select Smart Profanity.

Choose the range

Select Whole timeline, or In / Out to check only the range between your In and Out points.

Set the detection

Choose a level (Light, Standard or Strict) and the categories to bleep.

Choose the bleep

Bleep, Mute or Markers only. For a bleep, pick a sound or import your own, and set its volume.

Analyze

Click Find the words to bleep. The arrow on its left picks the transcription engine. You watch every sentence being checked and every flagged word turning red, one by one.

Review and apply

Uncheck what should stay audible, listen to any word with its bleep, search the transcript for missed words, then click Bleep N words.

Keep Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve open and do not edit the timeline while Smart Profanity is analyzing or applying.

Choose the range

Range	What it does
Whole timeline	Checks the sequence from beginning to end.
In / Out	Checks, charges and bleeps only between the sequence In and Out points.

Settings

The settings are grouped in three blocks: Detection, Bleep and Advanced settings.

Language

Leave Auto to detect the language. Set it yourself when the video mixes several languages or when detection is wrong. Detection works in every supported language, including Japanese, Korean and Hindi.

Level

Level	What gets bleeped
Light	Only what is clearly offensive.
Standard	What video platforms and advertisers usually flag. Recommended.
Strict	Also borderline words. Use it for kids or brand content.

Words that sit just below the chosen level appear in the review under To check, highlighted in yellow and unchecked. One click bleeps them.

What to bleep

Six categories, all enabled by default:

Category	Examples
Swearing	Swear words, vulgar insults and offensive expressions. A whole expression (“son of a bitch”) is bleeped as one block.
Sexual	Explicit sexual terms.
Violence	Words describing or threatening real violence (“I’ll kill you”, “murder”, “stabbed”).
Self-harm	Suicide, self-harm, telling someone to kill themselves.
Hate	Slurs against a group of people.
Drugs	Hard drugs and their use.

Gameplay is not violence: “I killed the boss” in a gaming video is kept. Idioms and harmless look-alikes are kept too.

Treatment

Treatment	What happens
Bleep	The voice is muted under each word and a bleep plays over it, on its own track.
Mute	The voice is muted under each word, nothing plays over it.
Markers only	A marker is added on each word. The audio does not change.

Bleep sound

Choose Classic bleep, High bleep, Retro or Cartoon, or click Your sound to import any audio file. Every bleep lasts exactly as long as the word, with short fades so it never clicks. An imported sound is looped or trimmed to fit. Bleep volume goes from -20 to +6 dB. What you hear with the play button is exactly what lands on the timeline.

Advanced settings

Setting	Default	What it does
Voice tracks	Tracks with clips	Only the checked tracks are muted under each bleep. Tracks whose name suggests music or sound effects are left out: they keep playing under the bleep.
Margin around each word	40 ms	Extra time bleeped before and after each word, so no letter slips through.
Keep the first syllable	Off	The beginning of the word stays audible (“f-BLEEP”), as on TV.
Add a marker on each word	On	A marker named with the masked word (“f*****g”) on every bleep.
Always bleep	Empty	Words or phrases to bleep every time, separated by commas. `` is a wildcard: `frick` also catches “fricking”. The paste button pastes a whole list at once.
Never bleep	Empty	Words that must stay audible even if they are flagged.

A locked track cannot be muted. Smart Profanity warns you before the analysis when a checked voice track is locked.

Your last settings are remembered. Save named presets with the preset menu.

Transcription engine

A word has to be heard to be bleeped, so the engine matters. Click the arrow on the left of Find the words to bleep to pick it. PremiereGPT is selected by default, and the button shows the total price of the run.

Engine	Best for
PremiereGPT	The fastest and cheapest. Good for clear speech.
PremiereGPT Large	More accurate on accents, fast speech and slang, a bit slower.
PremiereGPT V2	Transcribes word for word and never softens a swear word. The most reliable choice for heavy or mixed-language content.

When the transcript already hides a word (“f***” or ”***”), that word is bleeped automatically, whatever the engine.

Every transcription made by Smart Profanity is added to the Recent transcriptions of Smart Subtitles, so you can caption the same sequence without transcribing it again.

Watch the analysis

While Smart Profanity works, the progress window shows the algorithm live:

Sentence filter: each sentence gets a probability of containing a word to bleep. Most sentences are cleared at once.
Word-by-word decisions: the remaining sentences are read word by word. Each word to bleep turns red with its category and probability, one after the other. Words to check turn yellow.

Live word-by-word decisions of Smart Profanity

Review

After the analysis, every occurrence appears with its timecode, the word in its sentence, its category and its probability.

Click a row to check or uncheck it. Click a category pill to switch the whole category.
Click the timecode to move the playhead there.
Click ▶ to listen to the passage with the bleep, before anything is applied.
Under a selected row, Always bleep this word and Never bleep this word fill your lists and update every occurrence of the word.

Full transcript

Open Full transcript to bleep any word yourself, or to unbleep one. Words to bleep are red, words to check are yellow.

Find a word: type a word to highlight every match. Enter goes to the next match, Shift+Enter to the previous one.
‹ › move from match to match. With an empty search, they jump from flagged word to flagged word.
Bleep all (N) bleeps every match at once, Keep all (N) undoes it.
Click in the transcript, then use ← → to move the outlined word and Enter to bleep or keep it.
Shift-click selects several words of the same sentence.

Apply

When you click Bleep N words:

Your sequence is backed up.
The voice is muted on the voice tracks, word by word, with short fades. In Premiere Pro this is done with volume keyframes you can adjust afterwards.
Each bleep is created at the exact length of its word and placed on a free audio track, in the PremiereGPT_Bleeps bin.
Markers are added if the option is on.

In DaVinci Resolve, the voice is cut on the frame and the bleeped clips are re-placed as audio only on the same track. Their own clip gain and Fairlight effects are reset on those clips. The picture is never touched.

To undo, open the backup created before the change.

Credits

Step	Cost
Transcription	Price of the chosen engine, shown in the engine menu. Always charged.
Detection	A flat fee, charged only when at least one word is found.
Applying	Free.

Support

If you need help, join our Discord community or email us at admin@premierecopilot.com.

Getting Started

Key Features

Support & Community

Updates

Quick Start

Choose the range

Settings

Language

Level

What to bleep

Treatment

Bleep sound

Advanced settings

Transcription engine

Watch the analysis

Review

Full transcript

Apply

Credits

Support