We’re continuing the trend of incremental improvements to Drive view and Drive view organizational tools. This update adds a new sidebar header for Starred folders, and the ability to select Starred folders when moving projects.

A new header has been added to the Move panel, with a section for Starred folders so you can find these folders quickly for bulk or individual project moves.

There is an additional dropdown to filter by Drive.

Note: Starring a folder is now done by clicking the Folder icon in Drive view.

The Translation Beta is growing, and you can now Translate the audio in your projects to another language in just a few clicks. When you open Underlord and select translate, there is a new toggle labeled Dub speech that will replace the audio track with your selected AI Speaker in your selected language. While Captions are available in all currently supported languages, Translation with dubbing is limited to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish for now.

Expand your audience and impress your friends by giving it a try.

Note: this feature is rolling out to users over the course of a few days, so if you do not see this option yet, check back later this week.

Since we updated our pricing model a few weeks back, we are starting to implement limit checks for some features. Starting in v94, if you try to upload a file that is larger than what your plan allows, you’ll hit this screen with a prompt to upgrade for larger file uploads.

The limits are laid out on our pricing page, but for easy reference, here are the maximum file sizes available at each tier:

Free: 1GB

Hobbyist: 10GB

Creator: 20GB

Business: 50GB

Note: these limits do not effect users on Legacy plans.

For full details on plans and pricing, visit our pricing page.

The future of Descript is happening right now, and we’re taking a moment to make sure you’re up to speed.

A while back we introduced Descript for Web, and in v91, we announced that we had completed Beta testing. The Web version is now in wide release, and you can use it right now. We’ve raised the file size limit from 5GB to 50GB, so there’s nothing in the way of completing projects start to finish on the Web.

This project required rebuilding our media engine from the ground up, allowing us to store your files and stream them back to you without you having to download anything, ever.

Just head to web.descript.com to see for yourself.

Here are just some of the benefits of Descript for Web:

But that’s not the best part, we’re also announcing the new and improved Desktop app, that brings all of these improvements into a local package that you can download right now.

We’re excited to announce a new pre-release version of the Descript Desktop app. This new version of our Desktop app brings all the benefits of Descript for Web into a local app package.

Click here to Download the new Desktop Preview version of Descript, and here for installation instructions.

This new version of Descript will eventually replace the Desktop app, and you get started with it today. Say goodbye to “A new version of Descript is ready” prompts - in addition to all the benefits listed above, the new Desktop Preview will rarely require you to restart for updates.

You can have both the regular Desktop app and the new Desktop Preview installed at the same time, and switch back and forth without causing compatibility issues.

For both further information, and all current limitations for Descript for Web, and the Desktop preview, please visit our Help Center.

Since the launch of Season 6, we’ve seen incredible feedback about the new layout, and we’re confident that the streamlined interface is a major improvement for Descript usability and feature discovery. We want to stay focused on making this version the best it can be, and for this reason we have disabled the Labs toggle that restores the old interface.

If you still have concerns about the update, or feel like you need some more help getting started we have lots of options to get you up to speed:

This concludes all of our experimental feature options within the Labs program for the time being. We’ll let you know when we’ve added new, exciting, pre-release features for you to check out.

There’s only one small change within the Editor itself for version 93:

The “Layout” setting (within the Layer settings menu) has been renamed to “Size and Position” to reduce confusion between it and the concept of Layouts, which refer to elements within Templates. You’ll use the Size and Position interface to do what it says on the label: adjust the size and position of any Layer within your canvas.

Regenerate, our AI-powered tone-fixing, speech enhancing, spoken word replacement tool is officially out of Beta. Seamlessly eliminate any jumpy, abrupt, or awkward parts in their audio recordings, simplifying the process of creating smooth and professional-sounding audio content.

If the Beta tag was giving you pause, or you ran into issues during the Beta, now is the perfect time to give it a try.

We’re making some incremental improvements to the Drive view interface, and with this update we’ve added a new Toolbar that activates when you click the check box next to a project, or select multiple projects.

When a single project is checked, the top bar will change to this display which has controls for: Download, Rename project, Duplicate project, Move project, Copy link to project, and Project access

When you check multiple projects, you’ll be able to use the Move icon to relocate projects in bulk.

Bulk project deletion is still in the works, and we thank you for your patience on that. Data security is a top priority for us, and implementing mass delete in a way that is safe for our users will take just a bit longer.

As of July 2nd, 2024, new plan tiers and plan names are going into effect. You can view full details on our Pricing page, but here are the important parts:

Usage limits on plans is now broken down by feature type. It’s best understood by looking at our pricing table, but we’ll cover how our Underlord features are ranked:

: Underlord actions like Studio Sound, Green Screen, Remove Retakes

: Eye Contact, and Translate Captions

: Translate w/ Correction (upcoming)

For users on Free plans, or newly created Hobbyist and Creator plans, there are new prompts have been added so you can track your use of AI features.

For users who embed Descript share pages with Private view settings (aka “Drive access required”) - we now can detect whether the user is logged in to an authorized Descript account with Drive access. If the user playing the embedded video is logged in, the video will play as expected. If they are not logged in, they will be redirected to the main share page and prompted to login first.

We’re taking a breath on major changes as we all settle into the major interface overhaul from our last update. We have some optimizations and improvements upcoming, but for v92 we have mostly focused on fixing bugs, and bringing some Quick Recorder upgrades to Windows.

We've rolled back the change to Automatic Speaker Detection being on by default, and now offer at toggle. If you prefer the old Speaker Detective work flow, including listening to clips and manually labeling, just make sure you keep "Always ask to detect speakers" toggle set to ON.

Back in February we launched a number of improvements to the Quick Recorder on MacOS. Today, we’ve finally brought those upgrades to Windows devices.

As a reminder, you’ll see improvements to:

There are two modes:

This also means that we no longer offer a Quick Editor on Windows or MacOS - instead, you can click the Edit button to open a normal Descript project with your Quick Recording.

: We added a Default publishing privacy option to the Settings menu. We recommend choosing a setting due to the new features.

We have had to re-release patch 91.0.3 in order to resolve a project compatibility issue that some users were encountering. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

If you are prompted to update, please proceed.