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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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Descript has two different filters or effects to make your video transparent and remove your background. It has a good ol' green screen removal based on chroma key and an AI-based one.
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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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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,
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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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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