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Bleep out swear words in a video

In PandaStudio you censor a word by selecting it in the transcript and choosing Bleep: the word stays in the video, its audio is replaced by a tone of exactly its length, and the captions show it masked, such as d***.

Bleeping keeps the moment in the video instead of cutting it. Select one or more words in the Transcript tab, right-click and choose Bleep word (or Bleep N words). Adjacent words become one bleep. The words' own audio is silenced and a tone of the same length plays over them, with 30 ms of padding on each side by default, and the captions show the word masked: the first letter followed by asterisks. The bleep stays on those words when you cut elsewhere. Click a bleeped word to open its controls: Sound (TV bleep (1 kHz), Low tone, High tone, Retro beep, or Silence (mute only)), Volume, Hide the words in captions, Play, Start and End buttons that move each edge earlier or later in milliseconds when a word's timing is slightly off, and Remove bleep, which brings the word's audio and caption back. The bleep is applied in the preview and the export. To silence a stretch that is not a word, such as a cough or a name said under the breath, use Mute this part from the timeline's Add menu: it silences the video's own audio for that stretch while background music and sound effects keep playing. Bleeping needs a transcript; Mute this part does not.

In the app

  1. 1Transcribe the video if it isn't already, then open the Transcript tab.
  2. 2Click a word, or shift-click to select a range, then right-click and choose Bleep word (or Bleep N words).
  3. 3Click the bleeped word to open its controls. Pick the Sound, set the Volume and choose whether to Hide the words in captions.
  4. 4If the bleep starts or ends a little off the word, use the Start and End buttons to move each edge, then click Play to check.
  5. 5To silence a part with no words, open Add on the timeline and choose Mute this part, then drag its edges.
Bleep controls for a bleeped word: Sound, Volume and Hide the words in captions
Click a bleeped word to change its Sound and Volume, or hide it in the captions.

Ask the AI

Open the AI chat in the editor and say any of these. The agent does the edits for you.

“Bleep every swear word in this video.”
“Bleep the word at 1:24 with the retro beep and don't mask it in the captions.”
“Mute the cough at 0:42.”
“Remove the bleep on 'damn'.”

CLI & MCP

Every capability is a verb, reachable from the terminal or from an MCP agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Desktop).

project.add-bleep
pandastudio project.add-bleep --id=$ID --wordIds='["w-1203","w-1204"]' --sound=tv

Word ids come from transcript.get. Or pass --startMs / --endMs (edited ms) for audio that isn't in the transcript. Sounds: tv, low, high, retro, silence. --mask=none keeps the word visible in captions. Returns bleepIds.

project.update-bleep
pandastudio project.update-bleep --id=$ID --bleepId=$BLEEP --nudgeStartMs=40 --volume=0.4

Positive nudgeStartMs starts it earlier; positive nudgeEndMs ends it later.

project.remove-bleep
pandastudio project.remove-bleep --id=$ID --bleepId=$BLEEP

Or pass --wordIds to un-bleep only some words of a bleep.

project.add-mute-region
pandastudio project.add-mute-region --id=$ID --atMs=42000 --durationMs=800

Silences only the main track for that stretch (edited ms); music and sound effects keep playing. No tone, no caption change.

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