Starting today, we’re toggling the new timeline experience ON in Labs for everyone.

If you haven’t had a chance to try it yet: We've completely redesigned the timeline to make video editing simpler and more intuitive. The new timeline gives you a clearer view of your video and makes it faster to trim, split, and add scenes directly from the timeline.

To open the new timeline, hover over the solid grey bar above the play button and use your mouse to drag it .

This update comes with so many small changes and improvements we recommend that you view the video above as well our help center article to get acquainted.

There’s also a new dropdown menu in the upper lefthand side of the screen right next to the button. This menu contains a number of quick access options and settings for different areas of the Editor window:

The new timeline turned on for all users. If you need extra time to get up to speed, you can temporarily opt out by disabling it in . However, we'll be transitioning all users to the new timeline experience in the near future.

If you're on Desktop, we also release an update that requires a restart. It fixes a few bugs.

We’ve added a new Smart fill tool for text layers when you apply a layout from the gallery. It reads the script track and automatically fills text layers like titles and lists with relevant details from your transcription.

This is a great way to save time with a better-than-blank placeholder, or final text if you’re satisfied with the results.

This setting is toggled on by default for any of our premade layout packs, but you can toggle it on or off for your custom layout packs from the Layout pack menu in Drive view.

There’s a new illustration style for AI generated media when using both the AI video maker (available from the Home screen) and the Quick design action on the sidebar. The new setting is a brightly colored “collage” art style using more abstracted shapes for a more modern and lighthearted look.

You can now adjust the A/V sync of files automatically from the Project panel. This allows you to fix audio/video sync issues by applying a positive value to delay the video, or a negative value to advance the video.

This should save you time if you've been manually adjusting A/V sync issues using the Sequence editor.

We’re now able to process Green screen (background removal) and Blur speaker background instantly, without the need for long processing times. We’ve also removed the Beta label on Blur speaker background. This update is rolling out slowly over the next few days, so if you aren’t seeing these effects process instantly, check back soon.

We’ve added a secondary button to Generate your avatar to the Scene editor toolbar. This is just to make this option more prominent in the case that you haven’t Generated your avatar yet after adding it to a project.

A few weeks ago we had to disable the ability to Hide the recording dock on Windows when using the Screen recorder in order to resolve some bugs. We have reverted this change - and you will now have the recording dock automatically hidden from your final recordings when using Windows.

We’ve added a teleprompter to both the Editor recorder, and to the Screen recorder. The new teleprompter allows you to type a script, paste a script, or import a script from a project. You can then set a text size, and scroll speed.

The teleprompter comes also comes with:

The scroll speed has two settings:

The teleprompter will be automatically hidden from any recordings you make.

This is a long-standing feature request, and we’re excited to finally get it into your hands.

Also by popular request, we’ve added a big, easy to find Undo button to the main Editor control panel.

No more hunting through menus or memorizing the keyboard shortcut () just click the button to Undo your last action.

We’ve added a toggle to the Remove filler words AI action. You can now toggle on the “Avoid harsh cuts” setting, and our updated modal will analyze each removed filler word to ensure that it can be removed cleanly, without creating a harsh or jarring edit boundary that will be distracting for your viewers.

If a filler word cannot be removed cleanly it will be skipped to preserve the flow of your content.

Keep in mind, this is analyzing for harsh audio cuts, so you may still see video cuts that you need to adjust manually. It also adds a small amount of processing time when removing filler words.

Regenerate, our tool that regenerates sections of your script to make corrections without needing to re-record, can now regenerate sections of your video without creating awkward lip-sync issues.

When you make script corrections or want to adjust the tone, Regenerate video will automatically generate AI speech and video that flows naturally. As always, you’ll need to consent from any speakers included in the regenerated section. Regenerate video can take up a few minutes to process. In the background, we’re regenerating the audio first, and then regenerating the video to match.

Keep in mind that this feature is in beta, and still being improved. At present, it can only be applied to your Script track, and cannot be applied to any other layers.

It works best when the speaker is centered in frame with their mouth visible. It also works best with video files under 4K.

You can now use the Quick design action under the section of Underlord to quickly format your single-scene projects with scenes, layouts and B-roll. Just click the Quick design option and select from AI-generated B-roll, or Stock media. We’ll take care of the rest, detecting your layers and applying an appropriate layout.

This currently only works if you haven’t added scenes to your projects yet. We’ll post an update as soon as this can be applied to projects that already have scenes.

We now automatically apply a default layout to your recordings. This will select a layout based on the number of layers if one is not already selected. You can change to a different layout from the scene panel.

Over the last 6 months, we’ve slowly moved all of our users onto an upgraded version of the Desktop app that provides better performance, stability, and eliminates the need to keep local files for editing.

This new version also gives us the ability to make more frequent updates to fix bugs, implement changes to our backend, and more, without forcing you to update the app.

As a result, our version numbering system is no longer particularly relevant for most releases. We’ll still be posting changelog updates regularly—they’ll just be more of a roundup style to catch important changes, feature updates, and bug fixes.

Starting today, you can try out the new Underlord, available in Labs. It’s no longer just a suite of AI tools, it’s an AI co-editor that can help you write, design, and edit your video. Just tell it what you want, and it'll make a plan and get after it. It can read your script, follow directions, offer feedback, and more. And because it's inside Descript, it has every tool it needs to help you make the video you want.

Toggle it on by visiting the Settings menu → General tab → Labs section. Or just click here.

It’s still in beta—so we’re giving you free, unlimited use. From now through the end of June, taking any AI action with the new Underlord will count against your monthly AI limit (but clicking on them yourself will).

You can find details about getting started in our Help center.

We’ve made a few improvements to the AI video maker, which you can find on the Home screen. Here’s what’s new:

You can try it right now by clicking here.

We’re using a new and improved image generator when you select “Generate an image” from the Underlord panel on the sidebar. You’ll see an overall improvement in the quality of images. This has not yet been ported over to the AI video maker, so keep in mind you’ll be seeing images generating from the older image generation model when using that tool—for the time being.

We no longer support invite links to Drive, instead we’ve improved the experience for email invites. This helps keep Drive invites more organized and easier to track whether or not they have been accepted.

We’re rolling out a fully redesigned, and reconsidered Timeline view in Labs this week. Labs is our testing ground for new and exciting features that are still in development. You can toggle on this new Timeline experience by opening the Settings menu → General → and scrolling down to the Labs section.

The new timeline comes with many changes, which is why we’re putting it in Labs for users to get acquainted, and to allow more time for testing and polish.

Here’s what you need to know:

You can read more about all the changes in our help center, including a video walkthrough from Andrew.

We’ve re-built and relabeled our AI video maker adding a host of new features including Avatars, automatic layouts, captions, titles, scenes and even b-roll.

Select AI video maker from the Home screen to get started. From here you can start generating your video by:

If you select either , or you’ll first select an Avatar to be your presenter, along with an AI speaker to voice it. If you select “Upload a file” - we’ll take you straight to generating b-roll, or auto-selecting stock media for your b-roll.

Once you’ve made your selections, the video will start generating, and you can either Export immediately, or dive in and edit it. If you’re using a pre-recorded video, but prefer an Avatar, you can always swap it out inside the project.

This tool is a great way to bring a quick idea to life, or just try out Descript’s editing features with no barrier to entry in terms of having an idea or pre-recorded material.

Development of our new Screen recorder is moving forward. This week, we’re removing the Beta label.

Even more updates are coming to the screen recorder, so stay tuned.

Back in February, we rolled out major improvements to speaker quality to our Business and Enterprise users. We have improved the quality even more and are deploying both sets of improvements to all users in the coming weeks. You should notice a higher overall audio quality with better, more natural delivery. This also means that we will soon be fully deprecating custom speakers made with our very old models. These are labeled as "Removing soon" in the AI Speakers menu in Drive view. If you’re still using one, you’ll want to create a new custom speaker with the upgraded models by 6/30/2025. You can do this by clicking the "New speaker" button in the top right of the AI speakers menu in Drive view.