Descript Season 7 - Release Version 96

Welcome to Descript Season 7 — our love note to video and audio podcasters. We’re launching some new features to help round out your workflows, and highlighting the ways these features integrate seamlessly with our most powerful features for podcasters of all stripes. There’s also some quality of life improvements and of course bug fixes.

Everyone is invited to join us for the Season 7 virtual event, two weeks from today. Save your spot here.

With that out of the way, let's talk about what's new this week.

Descript now has an integrated connection with your Zoom account, allowing you to import Cloud recordings directly into the Editor. We highly recommend reviewing the help center for full details on setup, optimal settings, and troubleshooting options.

Accounts can be connected through the Settings menu → Connected accounts page, or by clicking the Import from Zoom button in a project. You’ll be prompted to verify your Zoom credentials, and once you’ve got the accounts connected you’re all set to start importing.

Clicking the Import from Zoom button will show you a chronological list of all of your Zoom cloud recordings. After import, Descript smartly builds the project into a Sequence file. Any video files that have an embedded audio in addition to an associated audio file will be muted to prevent duplicate audio. A major timesaver for podcasters and educators who record in Zoom.

We’ve added new AI usage trackers to the Settings menu, so you can better monitor your remaining AI suite balances. We’ll show your remaining uses, and when you’re getting close to your limit we’ll highlight the category with an hourglass icon. Advanced AI Suite options are available for Creator plans and above. You can upgrade from this menu with a few clicks if you want to give them a try.

There’s a new intensity slider when using Edit for clarity which increases or decreases the aggressiveness of edits. Use the Heavy setting to remove more filler words and cut more digressions, or use the Low setting for a lighter editing pass.

Rooms is a fully integrated collaborative recorder developed by SquadCast and Descript engineers.

It’s launching as a closed beta during Season 7 which you can sign up for at this link. We’ll also be onboarding users in waves as the beta progresses.

The Rooms recorder brings the best features of SquadCast into Descript, while adding and improving upon the formula. It’s built on a new engine that makes throttling streaming quality in favor of high quality source recordings more flexible and more reliable. Rooms will also include virtual backgrounds, instant imports into Descript, support for joining via mobile, and better file recovery and file integrity protections.

We’ll post updates as the soon as the beta starts rolling out.

You can now use the flatten tracks function on the Web, and in the Desktop preview version of Descript. It runs a bit faster than it does on regular Desktop, and has a progress meter.

The flattened track is built locally, and uploaded once it has completed. We’ll keep the file handy in case you run into connection issues during the uploading phase.

Regenerate can now work over Sequences, neatly re-timing the video content to match the new length of the regenerated speech, just the same way it works when you use it on single file.