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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,
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A recent update to Descript has blocked the ability to export a composition at a higher resolution than it's currently set to. If you had a composition that was created as a 720p for example, you were able to choose 1080p at export and it would upscale and
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A cool 'Hollywood' effect in my latest Camtasia video. I demonstrate how to create a cinematic text expanding effect where the distance between the letters of a word increases as time goes on. While Camtasia allows for vertical and horizontal spacing changes for words and letters, it'
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If you have an object you added to your composition and you've created multiple scenes, it can be tedious to apply the same properties to it if you've changed your mind or modified it. Clicking through 20 or so scenes just to change one property can
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It's very easy to change the orientation of a video in Descript Storyboard. You can do it in a composition, you can change from landscape to portrait, square or to a custom orientation. Just hover the top-left corner of the canvas area and the orientation change drop-down should
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You may be suffering from 'room tone' static. Descript applies what it calls 'room tone' to gap clips by default. If you're using a gap clip to add some distance between your clips in the timeline, you may discover there's a static
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A series of bugs I've encountered and reproduced in Descript and I've seen others report - and some workarounds, where possible.
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A new version of Descript rolled out this week. Here are all the updates from today's update of Descript Storyboard (version 58). It seems it's mostly interface fixes and improvements as well as some export in 4K possibility in the cloud export and more. A new
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If you've imported and transcribed a long video with Descript and you've discovered that Descript is too slow when editing, here's how to split that long video AND keep your transcription, without spending more transcription time. Descript doesn't work well with long
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If you need to change clip properties in bulk in Descript, you'll find it's not as easy as you'd think. Once you've made cuts and edits in your composition, particularly after removing filler words or closing word gaps and such, you typically
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In Descript, you can make text edits and corrections by editing, deleting or ignoring words, and having the audio and video kept in sync by deleting them with the words. But in some situations you might not want to affect the audio or video at all. Can you still just