Learn Descript in 15 Minutes [Full Tutorial]
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- Here's everything you need to know to get up and running with Descript in only 15 minutes.
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Descript is an extremely powerful yet easy-to-use audio and video editing tool. If you can edit a text doc, you can edit video. Perfect for editing content creators making CZcams videos, cutting down podcast clips for social media and video marketing, or even creating rough cuts to send to Premiere Pro or Final Cut.
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⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Interface Overview
02:28 - Changing Video Frame Size
02:55 - Auto-Transcription
04:35 - Editing Video
05:40 - Multiple Compositions and Media Files
07:00 - Text Editing Using Strikethrough
08:15 - Scenes
09:50 - Media Library
11:25 - Templates
12:16 - The Timeline
14:00 - Dynamic Captions
15:25 - Publish & Export
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This was crazy helpful and concise, thank you so much
I have just downloaded Descript and this video was super helpful for getting me started. Thank you so much, Joey.
Excited to give this a try with my future videos. Thanks for the clear and concise tutorial!
Insane value, deserves more views. Keep at it! Thank you :)
So many jewels! You also explained it smoothly and made it understandable. Thank you so much!
Thank you!
Helpful stuff, thanks!
definitely a very helpful video. thanks, joey!
Thank you so much this gives me more time to save!
Loved how simple and easy you made this tutorial
Thanks!
This is great, thanks.
GREAT video! Just got Descript and this really helps me with the basics. I'll be watching more from you for sure. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Let me know if any other questions pop up
Awesome beginner tutorial to get us up and running. Thanks Joey!
Glad it helped!
This video is AWESOME I'm new to descript and this was very clear about how to work with it.
Awesome, thank you! Glad it helped. Let me know if more questions pop up
I downloaded descript months ago and found their instructions confusing. Thanks for your tutorial I'm going to give it another try. 😊
Glad it helps!
I totally agree!!!
Excellent and Succinct.. I will download and try it.. cheers
Life saver! Thank you.
🙌
Good Work!
Thank You.
SUPER HELPFUL! thank you
🙌 Awesome! So glad it helped!
Just stumbled upon this. Seems like the perfect fit for me as a new creator.
Thank you so much for easy to understand videos!⚘️
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks this was very helpful - i was having a lot of trouble transitioning from classing to current version. i was ready to give up on descript after being one of its biggest fans. you won me back over lol
Awesome! Glad it helped!
This was so helpful. Thanks for sharing!😊
🙌 Awesome! Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic!
Many thanks!
So good. thanks for sharing
Thanks for that video.
You're welcome!
Thank you Joey. Very useful.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Very First time i have seen a very humble and to the point tutorial! U r the best and you earned a loyal subscriber
Thanks for the sub!
Thx that helped alot
this was insanely helpful
Glad it helped!
Very helpful! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, really helpful!
You're welcome!
Awesome video. Just what I wanted.
👊
Thank you, man!
You bet!
Thank you. 15 min.. You saved me hours.
Great to hear it! Let me know if you've got other Descript questions
Most awesome! Thanks!
You're welcome!
Really well made and explained... nice work Joey!
Thanks! Glad it helped!
finally a good tutorial
Great video, thank you! Quick tip on that mic: pull the foam out just a little bit to avoid those p-pops. 😃
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🤯 amazing. Also, I think each minute I spend watching your video saves me 1000s.
Agreed!
Thank you; great job! I am not sure how to shorten an imported video b/c the cursor was going so fast at times. Like the one your used from descript fit your scene time exactly, or does it automatically cut it?
Thanks!
Hmm I'm trying to understand better what you're trying to do. If you want to get really precise with where a video starts/stops, open the timeline view and drag the end of the clip to the exact moment you want. Let me know if that makes sense or you're talking about something else.
Thanks for that! Have subscribed as I'm interested the next Descript video. Did you use Descript to create this video?
This is a fantastic tutorial. I followed it step by step and learned a lot. Thanks a lot 👍👍👍
One thing that I could not get Descript to do, was when I changed the text in the transcript it just ignored it i.e. there was no sound while going over that piece of text.
@@vp-land Thanks very much Joey for the prompt response. That is correct, when I add the new sentence it show it in blue, but there is no voice when it goes over the blue text.
Also, if I change or replace a word in the middle of the sentence, new new word is also ignored.
Many thanks🙏
@@vp-land Thanks very much for the prompt response Joey.
That is correct when I add a new sentence it it shown in blue, but it is ignored and there is silence when going over the text in blue. It looks that I am not able to allocate a voice to the text in blue either.
Also if/when a word is replace in the middle of the sentence, that is also ignored.
Many thanks🙏
We have a more indepth video out about transcripts czcams.com/video/EJXVcJJucjg/video.html
You made descript looks so simple to use. I downloaded it, but I was so overwhelmed by all the stuff they were trying to jam down my brain all at once.
🙏 let me know what other questions you have
@@vp-land watching while at work, so I’ll finish the video later. Does descript have music you can add or do I need to add music files from another service?
@@dansicairos both - if you click on music at 10:58 they have some stock music you can use. or you can import your own
I've been putting this off for so long (since September at VidSummit to be exact!! haha) because i wasn't following the tutorial in descript! doh duh....so i finally searched youtube for a quick, down and dirty and this was soooooo helpful. Hereby Subscribed. ~ LindaRey
Thanks LindaRey! Let me know if you're looking for any other Descript tutorials
I know you said something in this video about not getting into (that particular topic) here so i'm looking for other descript videos here. I can't remember what it was....need more coffee. haha
Hmm might've been about transcripts, which is here: czcams.com/video/EJXVcJJucjg/video.html
Or Overdub, which just went up: czcams.com/video/a-Bf2QRWFLs/video.html
@@vp-land i'm on free version only which i think limits me ... i.e. i don't have the composition box under the video and i can't edit any of the words. i'll see what upgrades look like. it seems worth it since i've been using imovie doh.
scratch that. i see free is only for a certain length of video. my composition is on the side and i found the "correct" button. oy learning curve conundrum! haha
what if you want to start with creating a new video starting with audio and add images?
good tutorial. Is it possible that descript will add videos automatically to the text we type in ? I want to convert my blogs to video but don't want to invest time in selecting footage or videos.
Does descript have mouse track zoom?
Is there a way to increase the font size for each scene? When I tried to do this, it changed the size of all the scenes😅. Thanks!
Great video. Can you tell me what you are using to attatch your Shure mic? What kind of pole or stand is that that the shure mic is screwed into?
Thanks - it's this one amzn.to/4aya0aQ
I wouldn't recommend it - the arm always falls. If you look at all the more recent videos you'll see I got rid of the arm and just use the stand.
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Does it work on a Samsung tablet ?
@@mikeedwards1096 there's a new web based version but not sure if it works on a tablet. probably not very well
How can u choose the language of the audio for writing the script
Great video thank you. But how do you add text in the shapes? Like the triangle for example?
@@vp-land Thank you:) great video
Joey, thank you! This is a great video. How did you change the position of your video Canvas to the top and script on the bottom? No one knows how to change this??
@@vp-land 2:35, the layout. Canvas on top, Script on bottom. I want that. Unfortunately, my set up has Script top left, Canvas top middle, side by side? I want to change it to what you have onscreen.
Oh my god i can't believe it wow
how can i create clips from large videos in descript?
Great vid! How’d you do the greenscreen effect?
Thanks! There's a green screen effect you can turn on in your video. We're doing a video about it
Hi. Which dual screen template were you using from 0:10 onwards? I can't find it in Descript
Our own custom ones. We just launched a pack so you can use them yourself - let me know what you think ntmedia.gumroad.com/l/descript-templates
Great video. If you delete ums and uhs text does this remove it from the video/audio
Thanks! Yes any text you delete gets edited out of the video
Hey Joey, how do I add more tracks in the timeline? I want to add a teaser video and bumpers to the recording and have them overlap slightly. In using Davinci I could do that but this is a bit more challenging. May be it's worth a video tutorial? Thanks
How to add tracks and layers in Descript’s timeline #descript #videoediting
Thanks Joey! Do you have any tutorials on how to make a slideshow presentation? Ideally using a .pdf and a given script?
Do you have an example video of what you're looking to make? Like you have a PDF of slides and you want to turn it into a video with narration and the slides are the video?
@@vp-land Thanks for the reply! Here's an example (czcams.com/video/yNllWETrDF0/video.html). Yes! Exactly right.
@@matthewjames7513 Thanks - I'll add it to the list. Might need to convert the PDF to JPGs but I'm sure it's doable
can you copy youtube video's URL and edit them/upload them in descript, or would you need the original file?
no you'd have to rip it first into a video file
5:40, are you going to make a whole video on this anytime soon?
How can I Zoom in on a certain clip I that involves only one file? (Sitdown video with two people -- I want to Zoom in on their reactions)
Thank you!!
would I have to make it a new scene ?
Hey, if I want to a title or word, I’m not sure where to click so that I edit the text. I’ve been stuck on this for a few days.
Just click on the text box on the video screen and it should change to text you can edit
I noticed you changed your working view within Descript from a vertical to a horizontal view within the editor? I am not talking about resizing the video. You show showed that. I am specifically trying to figure out how to change my working view within the application.
Hi, thanks for the great tutorial. When I record (and playback) in Descript, at 1080p or even 720p, the video is jumpy - vs when I try in eg Loom, it is smooth. Are there some settings in Descript I can use to cut down processing bandwidth for a smoother video? eg turn off auto transcription?
Do you know if the video itself is jumpy when recording or just the playback? If not sure you can download the recording to your computer and play it back to see. And how long is the recording and do you have other videos in this project? The bigger the project, the slower Descript gets. Descript is pretty resource intensive, so it could also come down to your computer specs. You can try Descript's web based editor in beta, sometimes we've had better playback experiences there.
@@vp-land Thanks - it's jumpy at the recording stage (and then at playback also). It's only a few seconds long and is the only video in the project - ie unfortunately as soon as I start recording a tiny test case, it is jumpy. I'll check out the web based editor, and otherwise perhaps need a new laptop - thanks!
@@user-ro1vx7ho1u If the recording is smooth in Loom you can always download the video and bring it into Descript
Good shout
When will there be a video which explains how to turn text into a AI voice text using Descript? Is there a tutorial out there? I would be very happy to see something like that on your channel!
Yep it's right here czcams.com/video/a-Bf2QRWFLs/video.html
@@vp-land Thanks a lot!
I need to edit a long video, about 30 minutes. I have a great computer but experienced laggy editors before for this large video, do you think descript can handle that?
Yeah try it. It plays back a lower quality file if it’s having performance issues but still renders the full quality video when you export.
stuck in retrieving project page, cannot proceed
I want to make CZcams shorts of excel instructional videos but can’t fit the full screen properly into the portrait view. Any suggestions on how to achieve this? When I scale up to portrait it doesn’t fit properly on the screen
HD video is a 16:9 ration, usually 1920x1080. If you're computer monitor & screen recording is set to a different ratio, when you import into Descript and edit it the video might not fill the screen or you may need to crop the video to fill the screen. Check your screen recording settings so you record in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
@@vp-land thanks so much 😊
descript doesnt always get everything im saying, some of the audio is shown as audio levels in the script, how do i do this? I have the free version at this moment and I'm speaking swedish
If you highlight the ‘gaps’ and hit correct and type out what you say it’ll update
How do I remove the silence before I start speaking? I have been attempting to accomplish this all day with no luck.😒
The Overdub function is not working when I highlight a piece of the text. Any idea how to use Overdub?
yeah we've got a whole video on it czcams.com/video/a-Bf2QRWFLs/video.htmlsi=Bv0nwJ7bVzxF6Rbq
Hello. How can I show the scene before it came first word from scene ??!!Thanks
Not really understanding the question. In the timeline you can drag the line where the scene starts if that's what you mean
@@vp-land if I move the timeline, the duration of the audio file changes, which I don't need. if I press together with ctr, then the timeline changes to the word, which I don't need. I only need to move the scene so that it shows the words as in karaoke, but the first word is not colored until its time has come!!! I noticed that if you click on the scene in the timeline, 2 points appear, the beginning and the end of the scene. But if I move the point, the scene does not change!!! And when is not sound it put more point how to put scene instead of point??!!
After I add a period at the end of the sentence a new line is automatically added??!!!
Great content pal!
What was the platform you used to record this video?
For your face cam to overlay your live screen
Thanks - two separate feeds. One recording the webcam, one recording the screen
@@vp-land thanks my man!
Would you be kind enough to share which platforms they were?
@@mxsty7268 It's just quicktime player and sometimes ScreenShot X
@@vp-land absolute legend.
Trying to find a platform where I can do PowerPoint slides with a face camera.
Seems difficult to find the right platform then I initially thought lol
@@mxsty7268 We've got this video that covers presentation recording: czcams.com/video/ICanXjC7sQ0/video.htmlsi=KgppYzF8KmmNeG1B
Descript has a desktop + webcam layout setting but you're stuck with how it records it. To switch between the two or do different layouts you need to record them as two separate files
how do you ADD new words in your script in your voice??????
czcams.com/video/a-Bf2QRWFLs/video.html
With Descript is it possible to take footage from CZcams to incorporate into your video podcast?
For fair use, yes, download the video using a tool like PullTube or Video Downloader 4K and add it to descript like any other video file
@@vp-land ok thank you for that.
I did my video in Descript but I can't download anything. It has been blocked fr me. Do you know why? I can export or publish as a link :(
Free plan? Web or app? Best to reach out to support
Hi Joey can you please give me a advice how to turn of subs because when I export and download the video from descript it has my captions from descript and plus it has got subs (I have mac so Im talking about the "automatic subs from mac...)
Have a nice day!
hmm are you saying the captions show up when you play the video in quicktime?
when you export you might try unchecking export with metadata
How to undo in descript, either transcription or any edit...
Cmd/ctrl + z or Edit-Undo
Great video! Having an issue with the quality upon export. It still seems blurry even if I export it as "high" quality. The other issue is i'm recording on my iphone 14 pro and it appears to be really skinny. any advice?
Thanks! So with the quality - I wish they had more control or gave more info on what settings it's using. You can try Share to get the Share URL, then download from the Share page. But in my experience that's been worse quality.
with the video do you mean it looks like it's getting squished? Or is it cropping it vertically?
@@vp-land it’s getting cropper vertically. I’m recording vertically on my iPhone 14. Should I be doing it horizontally? Appreciate you man.
@@NickChapman222 sounds like you need to change the composition layout @ 2:34
If you want your final video to be horizontal then you should record horizontally on your iPhone
@@vp-land unfortunately on mine im not seeing the tab to change it. I only see the little pencil that shows correct, overdub or write. ?
Hi Joey I have a quick question if exampl I'm editing an icon and I'm trying to copy the icon settings across different ones , like copying the size ,the the effect and paste it on another icon ( attributes) can I do it on the descript
Hmm what do you mean by icon?
@@vp-land for example, when I am putting the video on descript and instead of exporting the video and put it on adobe premiere or Final Cut to edit it. I just want to add the icon to the videos in descript but I'm tired of editing the icons one at a time . I just want to edit one icon and copy the changes and edits and paste them all on the other icons. Hope it make sens 😂 thanks in advance
@@squizi7090 I'm still not sure what you mean by 'icons.' Do you have an example of it?
@@vp-land like a picture for for example, like a small picture for example, if I'm talking about the weather you need a cloud icon or picture you know what i mean
@@squizi7090 ahh ok got it. if you want it to show up the whole time just open the timeline and drag the layer out over the rest of the video, around 12:50 in the video
Can someone please tell me how to reverse a video clip in Descript currently?
hmm I don't think there is a way, just to adjust speed. You'll probably have to use a free online tool to convert the clip, then bring it back into Descript. Like this one clideo.com/reverse-video
how to put 2 line in the same screen? When i push enter it create new screen!!!
Drag the edges of the text box until you get two lines on screen
@@vp-land I can't find borders to the text... I put the space button until I get to the next step... I saw that when exporting srt there is \N as a new line, but when I put this it doesn't work manually...
czcams.com/video/-BeVfChaZfg/video.html@@IndigaVP
@@vp-land I think space is better. You need to change every time margine of text!!! But thanks!!!
Hi, I'm struggling to change the voice of the video. I'm trying to add the AI voice, but still not able to change the voice.
Please assist me with the video. Please help me with this.
czcams.com/video/a-Bf2QRWFLs/video.htmlsi=rfRr2BcZbPJT6kgh
@@vp-land Thank you so much for your reply. I'm still facing issues changing the voice of my video. Here are my steps:
I created a video project.
Then I uploaded the video and chose the AI voice.
Then I clicked on the play button.
However, I still see that the video hasn't changed. Even though the color of the text remains the same as in the previews, I can see that the AI voice has been assigned to the script, but the voice remains unchanged
Descript in theory sounds amazing, but in practice it's absolutely terrible. It works great if you edit the EXACT way they want you to edit, otherwise it becomes a nightmare to use and navigate. The interface and timeline is extremely clunky, takes ages to do simply move things around and it's extremeny buggy - I had to re-edit 2 of my 30 min videos because they got messed up by descript.
The only plus is the script editor and the dubbing feature but I'm 100% sure there will be more tools out there that will do a much better job soon.
Also they changed the entire UX overnight so users like me who purchased an annual plan before that got stuck with a headache inducing nonsensical editing experience, very different from what it was before.
Does caption generator work in arabic??
unfortunately not help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/10249408168845-Supported-transcription-languages
But Riverside's free transcription tool does support Arabic czcams.com/video/aqgMfhM00Us/video.html
How do you undo, it please? I can't figure that out hahaa
@@vp-land No, just undoing. I sometimes delete something by mistake and don't know how to go back. But you have mentioned that also in your video.
I accidentaly created a title in the video. How can I delete it? I tried to erase it but the cursor cannot pick it up to be deleted.... I go mental. :(((
click on the text in the video preview window and hit delete once it's selected
I heard something way different from these vids:
-Ocean-
Oh, my!
“Send her.”
*Screams*
Bro, for the life of me...I cannot figure out how to un-do something that gets deleted. Captions doesn't even have the feature of "un-do". Is this a common thing!? HELP
Command/Ctrl + Z? I've had a pretty good experience with being able to undo anything in Descript
My only issue with Descript is I have to smooth out the cuts
Like when you cut out some text you have to go to the timeline to smooth it out?
In 15 minutes, clocks ticking and video is 16:24 long :D
damn, busted 🤷♂️
I can't even figure out where to find my transcription to open and edit
Add the clip to a composition or create new composition
I thought Descript was an AI voice generator? This video shows nothing about AI. voice. I'm confused.
PLEASE get a pop filter.
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don't know what descript you're using but mine looks nothing like that when i open it. please make a better tutorial.
Watch the other videos before you complain
Nope. Totally overwhelming. Guess I’ll be moving on.😢
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I hate this program with all my heart because whenever i try to press start something it works and something not until you cant even play it...I HATE IT
sounds like operator error