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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
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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