I have a movie that i'd like to cuff, ie reverse a few swear words which crop up in it, to make it a bit more family friendly.  Can anyone recommend a good free video editor tool for this? I don't need to edit the actual visuals at all, just the audio.  I use Audacity already, and had wondered whether it would be better to extract the audio component, edit THAT standalone, then combine it back into the movie.  But i was worried that i'd end up with it being out of sync somehow.I'd be looking for something where i can just drag over the offending word, and then choose some reverse audio function or something.Any advice welcome.  I'm using Linux Mint Maya 13.2 btw.
Editor for altering the soundtrack to a movie
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I would recommend doing as you said, extract the audio, use Audacity or something similar to cuff the audio, then use ffmpeg to re-add the audio without re-encoding the video.Their are multiple methods for censoring words in Audacity. - First, the method you specified, you can simply reverse the audio. - You can select the audio, mute it with Generate > Silence. - You can use a TV-style censor beep: you can select the audio and use Generate > Tone. Setting Waveform: Sine, Frequency: 1000, and Amplitude: 1 generally works well, but feel free to experiment.