Remove curse words

Clean up profanity and other blocked words before clips move on to finishing or export.

The Remove Curse Words node is an Editing action node for processing profanity and inappropriate language in a workflow. Use it after the workflow has a video or clips to process, and before any downstream node that should use the cleaned result.

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Add the node

Open Workflows from the left sidebar and click New to open the workflow builder. Add a trigger or source node first. When the builder moves to the Editing stage, choose Remove Curse Words from the left node panel. Overlap adds it as an action node on the canvas. Click the Remove Curse Words node on the canvas whenever you need to reopen its settings on the right side.

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Choose how profanity is processed

The node is enabled by default and automatically detects common profanity. Use the right-side settings panel to decide how Overlap should process the video/audio and transcript.

• Audio/Video Processing: The default setting is Silence Audio.
• Transcript Processing: The default setting is Keep Original.

With the default settings, Overlap silences curse words in the audio while keeping the original transcript text.

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Add custom words

Use Add Custom Word when the workflow should also process words beyond the default profanity list. Type a word in the custom word field, then click the + button to add it to the node. The settings panel notes that Overlap automatically detects common profanity plus any additional words you specify. Words are matched as whole words, including regular forms such as plurals and -ed/-ing endings, so adding hell also catches hells but not hello. A few strong words also match compounds (for example shithead or motherfucking). Words that only happen to start with a listed word, such as cocktail or Japan, are not censored.

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Allow words that should never be censored

Use Allowed Words for words that match the profanity list but shouldn’t be censored in your content — for example, a guest’s surname like Dick. Allowed words are never silenced, skipped, or masked. Matching ignores capitalization and also covers plurals and possessives (Dick's), but a different word that merely starts with it (dickhead) is still censored. You can also add or remove allowed words later in Studio under AI Tools → Curse Words; adding one immediately uncensors that word across the clip.

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Adjusting individual words in Studio

After the workflow runs, you can still override the result word by word in the Studio transcript. Select a word to Uncensor it, unmute it, or restore it. Those choices stick when you reopen the clip, change the Curse Words tool settings, or export. Changing a setting in AI Tools → Curse Words applies only that change: switching Transcript Processing back to Keep Original removes the masking, leaving Skip in Video brings the cut words back, and removing a custom word undoes its effect.

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Place it in the workflow

Place Remove Curse Words after the node that produces the video or clips you want to clean. For a clip workflow, a common order is:

• Find Clips -> Remove Curse Words -> Style Video -> export

For a manual cleanup workflow, you can place it directly after Manual Trigger and then continue into subtitles, reframing, branding, or export.

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Build the rest of the workflow

After profanity cleanup is configured, continue with finishing nodes such as Style Video, Reframe, or an export node. Click Publish when the workflow is ready to run.