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When you export a video from Descript, it will export the video but secretly add 'soft subtitles' to that video in the metadata as a subtitle track. There's no way to disable this in Descript, but you can remove them.
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Don't Panic! We're About to Lose Access to Descript Classic Descript announced that their old version of the product - the Classic version - would be retired on October 1st. If you were still relying on it, unfortunately you have no choice anymore. I've
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A user in the Descript Users Facebook Community asked an interesting question about backing up your Descript projects. She was worried what's going to happen to all her projects / compositions if Descript stops working or functioning someday. She has a lot of projects or compositions published and hosted
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If you have an external transcription ready made for your video or audio, you can import it into Descript and synchronize it with the audio or the video. You don't have to waste your transcription minutes in Descript. But first... Prevent Automatic Transcription By default, Descript will try
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Techsmith just announced a set of pre-built library assets that allow you to create audio visualizers to your projects - assets that react to audio (music or speech) and can be customized.
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15 August, 2023 - Some exciting news from Descript today, it was announced that Descript has acquired SquadCast. So SquadCast is now part of Descript. If you have a Descript account, the great news is you can now link your Descript account to SquadCast and have online recording for free.
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I see this question quite a lot in the Descript communities and I thought I'd make a quick tutorial about it. It is possible to copy files from one project to another in Descript without re-uploading, re-editing or re-transcribing them. What's the problem? Most Descript beginners
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Did you know you can export your videos or audios much faster from Descript Storyboard by using the cloud? It's very easy. Exporting your finished videos from Descript is quite slow on your local computer. You need disk space and a fast processor and it can take a
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I set out to create a realistic, 3D-looking, animated, reusable flipbook only with Camtasia, and I recorded the whole process for you. So here it is, for your viewing pleasure, a minicourse teaching you how to create an animated flipbook in Camtasia from scratch. You will end up with a
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If you often need to export the markers from a Descript composition with timestamps, say for YouTube chapters, it's possible get the markers with timestamps from Descript and it only takes a couple clicks. Descript Storyboard doesn't have a specific "Export Markers for Youtube"
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Descript's backend transcription service is far from perfect. At the time of writing this, both Descript Classic and Descript Storyboard use the services of Rev.com, which is an online transcription correction service. One of the things that annoy me (and many others) is the fact that Descript
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A recent change in Descript made it a little more difficult to unpublish a composition that you've published as a "Web Page" from the "Publish" menu. If you were confused where to find this option, read on: In the Classic version (and until recently,