Apparently, Hollywood has been trying for the past several years to shut down edited movie companies, who provide a service of making edited movies to remove vulgar language, gory violence, and sexual content.
Hollywood dislikes the fact that people don’t want to be indoctrinated with their filth and trash. Recently, Family Edited DVDs was forced to close their business. Family Edited DVDs had been known for producing quality edited versions of movies as a service to families, schools, and Christian organizations. Well, here is a little known secret: It is not difficult to edit your own movies. Most computers are capable of doing it, but there is a certain process to go about it. People have the ability to make their own edited versions how they see fit.
Why is this important, and why is Hollywood so upset? Well, it’s because people don’t want the filth and the trash. People vote with their money, and at the box office it is clearly evident that R rated movies are not welcome! According to The Movie Times All Time Box Office Revenue, there is NOT a single R rated movie in the top 10. In fact, out of the 40 top grossing movies of all time, the ONLY R-rated film is “Passion of the Christ.” Most of them are movies made for children!
You can edit your own movies by ripping the movie to your computer hard drive via AnyDVDHD, converting the files via TMPGEnc XPress, editing via Sony Vegas Video, and DVD creation via Sony DVD Architect. Then just burn the finished edited movie on a DVD-R. While I still advise to steer clear of R rated movies, this is a great way to edit your PG-13 and PG rated movies. You can be sure that movies are safe in your home so that your children will not pre-maturely encounter vulgar language in children’s movies such as Shrek, Harry Potter, or Jumanji as well as many Disney movies that are no longer family friendly.
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This will certainly help clean up our home DVD library of PG rated movies for our children. Thanks to LDS Resources for the insightful information. We do not have cable and do not go out to the movie theaters. I have bought edited versions of movies from Family Edited DVDs in the past and have to point out that their quality was much better than Clean Flicks. I will definitely buy their book!
I am SO incredibly glad to see this information available! I have been trying for years to edit movies myself through trial and error. Hopefully this will make my life much easier! Maybe Hollywood will finally get a clue and start making decent movies! (What a concept!)
I was so sad to see Cleanfilms and those other businesses go down, but I’m glad that there are still sites available to get edited movies.
It sounds like this book on editing movies will be a big hit. I recently ordered it, and it is exactly as you said, a simple step by step how to guide. I can not wait to start editing my own movies.
I think it is great to have this information because this will provide a way for my family to enjoy movies without all the garbage. My kids get enough of that stuff at school. I would not want that to be in my home also. It only degrades my family but also tells others that what is being said is ok to say and I do not want my kids to think that it is ok to see it, hear it or even be around it. Thanks for providing the information.
We watched a movie the other night which had some vulgar language and we thought the only reason it was in the movie was to obtain a mature audience rating; such a stupid thing to do.
Does the book show you how to edit the movie by requiring the editor to expose himself to the junk first and than edit it? Or does it show you how to avoid it altogether?
Yes, you would have to view the movie to know what to remove.
While this seems llike a great idea. The only way to edit these movies is to first watch all of the offensive content and then to edit it out. This may protect others from exposure but the editor is exposed to it all and more than if the movie was just watched once in an unedited form. Addtionally, by first purchasing these films, we are saying with our dollars that we want more of this type of entertainment produced. The studios have no way of knowing that we purchased this movie so that we could edit out offensive content. All they know is that we bought it, which will only make them produce more of the same. My advice, steer clear of this content altogether.
Hence the reason why I stated in the article: “While I still advise to steer clear of R rated movies, this is a great way to edit your PG-13 and PG rated movies.”
That would be great if it were possible. However, most ALL of the PG rated movies have offensive content (and yes, even G rated movies). So are you saying that you do not watch any movies at all? The ideal thing to do would be to refrain from watching ANY movie!
Great idea – but who has this type of time to spend to edit every movie they want to watch? Also, the person editing has to view the material. You are better off just sticking with clean movies.
Unfortunately, even G and PG movies have vulgar language that is inappropriate for children!