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Descript tends to try to 'help' you when you import audio or video files into a project by automatically transcribing them. Let me tell you why that's bad and how to prevent it. Automated transcription 'wizards' Descript's automated 'wizards' are
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The first advice I give to all my course or coaching students when it comes to making corrections in Descript, is to never delete, always ignore.
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You may have come across a situation where Descript will ignore your transcription corrections. This is due to a bug that's been around for some time, but can also be due to crosstalk or a conflict in word alignment. I have several clients that request perfect transcriptions out
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Descript Storyboard has two different recorders. One runs in the system tray and is called "Quick Recorder" and the other is launched from within the application from among the 5 icons at the top. You have the same options on both recorders, such as recording your screen, microphone,
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Descript has a lot of keyboard shortcuts you can use throughout the interface. I love working on the keyboard and there are some nice little keyboard tricks I use when I want to work faster and not reach for the mouse all the time, particularly when performing repetitive tasks such
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You may have audio files that you transcribe and work with in Descript that have speech and other audio. Maybe you have a piece that has audio in more than one language or there's laughter and other sounds on the audio. If you try to remove 'gaps&
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Sequences and Compositions in Descript are the first things you need to familiarize yourself with as they are the most important. New Descript users usually have difficulty with the distinction between the two so I'll attempt to explain in this article. What are Descript sequences? Sequences are the
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If you've recorded a multi-track conversation in Descript — say, a podcast with two speakers — you might need to export each speaker's audio separately. Maybe you want to do further mastering in Adobe Audition or Audacity, or perhaps one track needs extra processing and you want to
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Descript offers two different ways to remove your video background — the traditional Chroma Key effect and a newer AI-powered Green Screen filter. Each has its strengths, and in this tutorial I compare both methods side by side. Watch the full tutorial: Method 1: Chroma Key Chroma Key is the classic
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If you have ever recorded video tutorials or screencasts in Camtasia, you know the struggle of dealing with background noise. Air conditioning hum, room echo, keyboard clicks — all of those little sounds that creep into your recordings. Camtasia does include a built-in noise removal filter, but it is quite limited.
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When you record a Zoom meeting, you get a single video file with all participants visible in a grid. But what if you want to create a professional multi-camera look — cutting between full-screen shots of each speaker? Descript makes this surprisingly easy using sequences, scenes, and its transcript-based editing. Importing
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Camtasia 2022 is here. I show you what's new in Camtasia 2022 in this in-depth video. I walk through all the new Camtasia 2022 features I could find and analyze them in detail, showing you what's exciting, what's so-so, what's completely new