Rooms beta — progress update

A few weeks ago, we launched the beta program for our new collaborative recording platform — Rooms. We started by enabling it for everyone who expressed interest through our waitlist, and 25% of all Descript users. 
The beta has been a big success - helping us identify issues, introduce optimizations, and get direct feedback from the community. Today, we increased the number of users who have access to the Rooms beta from 25% to 50%. This opens it up to a full half of all Descript users to try right now.
You can confirm whether you have access by clicking the New Project button from Drive view. You’ll see the option to Record with others (Beta)
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You can also access it from within a project by clicking the Record button and selecting Record with others
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There’s still time to join the waitlist if you don’t yet have access, but would like to. If you're in the beta, you can leave feedback and ask questions in the #rooms-beta channel on our community Discord.
For those of you who have had a chance to try it, here’s a quick update on the fixes and improvements we’ve made since launch. And this is just the beginning — there’s so much more as we implement our roadmap, fix bugs, and iterate on your feedback.  
Added a more visible countdown when initiating a recording
Noise cancellation is now ON by default, and your setting preference will be stored in your browser cookies
Added a functional button the the Retry prompt that appears when the Chat fails to load
Rooms recordings are now added to the end of a composition rather than to the beginning
Added the ability to change between 1:1 and 16:9 aspect ratio while screen sharing
Improved UI responsiveness when in a Room with only 1 participant
Introduced many visual improvements to the UI in dark mode
Updated wording on Mic mute tooltip to provide clearer instructions
Guest transcriptions now adhere to the host’s transcription settings
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug resulting in “ffmpeg exited with code 1: Conversion failed!” error after import into a project
Fixed an issue causing the righthand sidebar to get cut-off when resizing video
Fixed a bug showing the option to logout even when not logged in