Drive admins on Enterprise plans can now restrict what assets are used by their team by setting permissions in Brand Studio. This helps you enforce brand compliance across all projects without constant manual review.

When you set permissions, team members will only see approved brand assets in their editor. Your brand colors, fonts, logos, and media appear first in color pickers, font menus, and media browsers—making it easy for your team to stay on-brand by default.

To set up permissions, open Brand Studio from your Drive, go to the Permissions tab, and choose brand assets. This feature is available on Enterprise plans.

For editors on Enterprise drives, you’ll now see a tab for brand-approved assets in your Media panel.

We’ve also added Sora 2 to our generative video options in Descript. Sora 2 creates cohesive multi-shot videos from text prompts, with smooth motion, camera continuity, and cinematic realism.

Sora 2 automatically generates audio including music, sound effects, and speech when you include quoted dialogue in your prompt.

Learn more about the best ways to generate and use video in Descript with our friends at Learn Descript.

We've upgraded to Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 [fast], Google's latest video generation models. These replace the previous Veo 3 and Veo 3 [fast] models.

Veo 3.1 maintains the same pricing and capabilities as Veo 3, while delivering improved video quality. All existing generation features work the same way—just with better output quality from the upgraded model.

You can now customize settings based on the AI model you've selected for image and video generation. Different models support different parameters, and the interface will show you which settings are available for your chosen model.

For video generation, depending on the model, you can adjust:

For image generation, you can configure model-specific parameters like number of outputs and other settings that vary by model.

These settings appear in the generation panel when you're using the AI Tools sidebar or working with Underlord. The available options update automatically based on which model you select, so you'll only see parameters that your chosen model supports.

You can now use Underlord directly from the media library in the Project panel. When you open an image or video in the preview popout, you'll see an Underlord button with options to generate new content based on that file.

This gives you the same generation options that are available from the scene toolbar, but now you can access them right from your media library.

We’ve made it easier to setup your Rooms session, before you ever start recording. You can now create invite links that automatically assign participants a specific role when they join your Room. This means you can send different links to different people based on what they need to do in the session and pairs well with Control Room—available exclusively to users on Business and Enterprise plans.

When you click the Invite button, select a role from the dropdown:

Each role has its own unique invite link that doesn't expire. When someone joins from a role-specific link, they'll automatically have that role assigned.

This is useful if you have a fixed cast or want to share a link with viewers who shouldn't be recorded. You can still manually change someone's role when approving their join request if needed.

We’ve added the ability to generate a still image from any frame in your Project. This is helpful when you want to use a specific frame from your composition as a reference image for video generation, but you can also use it for basic stills / thumbnails from your project, fulfilling a long-standing feature request.

To save a keyframe, position your playhead where you want to capture the frame, then click the Layers button in the the Scene toolbar → camera icon to save the current frame to Project files. The captured image will be saved to a "Saved keyframes" folder in the Project panel.

This works well for creating animated title cards—you can design your text and graphics in Descript, capture the frame, and then use it as an input for generating video animations.

You can now transcribe audio and video in Welsh. To use it, manually select Welsh from the language dropdown when transcribing your file.

Since this is still in beta, Welsh transcription will not be detected automatically if you use the "Auto detect language" option. You'll need to select Welsh manually each time you transcribe.

We're changing how we track usage in Descript, which means we're updating our subscription plans. As of yesterday, Free users have been onboarded to these updated plans, while existing paid users will stay on their current plans for now.

Your Descript Free plan now includes:

We've also expanded your access to AI-powered editing in Descript, including:

If you're a paid subscriber, your current plan and pricing remain unchanged for now. Later this year, all plans except those on enterprise will be updated to include media minutes and AI credits, with at least 30 days notice before any changes occur. In most cases, this transition will not impact the price you pay.

You also have the option to switch to our new plans immediately to take advantage of media minutes and AI credits, including access to exclusive features like the latest generative video models.

For more details about these changes, including a full breakdown of what's included in all plans, check out our comprehensive FAQ in the Help Center.

For users on the new plan types, we’ve added new premium, supercharged generative model options to the settings menu.

These models offer higher quality output, delivering significantly improved quality, particularly with video models like , and image models like . They can also provide better character consistency across image generations, maintaining appearance and identity across different angles and scenes.

The following image generation models are available:

The following video generation models are available:

You can select your generation models in the section. For users on the new plans, these different models have different credit costs. The model picker displays the price of each model with a tooltip containing additional information.

You can now bring your images to life right from the Scene editor (formerly known as the Canvas.)

With the brand-new Turn into video button, you can instantly transform any image in your project into a vibrant, dynamic video clip—no extra tools needed. In just a few clicks, your still images become animated visuals, unlocking fresh creative possibilities and adding motion to your storytelling.

You can also do this via an Underlord prompt, or directly from the .

With Descript's video generation, your b-roll can do whatever the moment calls for—clarify a concept, carry a metaphor, or add a spark of personality.

We're pleased to announce that we’ve returned the Transcription glossary as a feature for all plans. Previously, we limited this to Business and Enterprise Drive users as part of Brand Studio, but after receiving feedback that users valued this feature across all plan types, we've decided to make it universally available again.

If you’d like to automatically add words you correct frequently, there’s a toggle available on the Transcription glossary panel. The Transcription glossary still offers enhanced team-level features for Business and Enterprise plans, while now providing essential functionality for all users.

We've quadrupled the word limit for Quick design from 300 to 1200 words. This expanded capability allows you to transform longer scripts into visually engaging content without needing to split them into smaller sections.

The new 1200-word limit is available to all users now. Simply select Quick Design from the sidebar and enjoy the expanded capability for your longer scripts.

We've made some upgrades to our Video regenerate feature with a new high-quality model that delivers more natural and accurate results.

We’re continuing to work on and improve the model. Give it a try and let us know if it performs better for you!

This month, we’ve invested in improving quality of life across the board for Rooms users.

First, we’ve added new camera resolution controls to Descript Rooms for Hosts and Guests.

These new controls allow you to optimize for your internet connection by selecting lower resolutions when bandwidth is limited or record at higher resolutions when quality is your priority. The resolution picker can be found in your camera settings both before and during your Rooms calls. Simply click on your camera controls to access these new options.

Next up, we’ve added the ability to record your audio files as lossless WAV files to ensure the highest quality audio is transferred to your final project and exports.

Room hosts, co-hosts, and producers can now enable a new setting to generate lossless audio for all participants in a session. When enabled with video recording, you'll receive both a MOV file with lossless audio built in and a separate audio-only WAV file.

WAV files are lossless audio captures and store all your audio data without compression. Nothing is thrown out, so playback sounds exactly like the original recording.

Finally, Audio Only mode lets you see video during your session while only recording high-quality audio. This feature is perfect for podcasters and audio-first creators who want the benefits of face-to-face conversation without the longer upload times and complex editing of video. You can toggle it on in the Rooms settings menu.

We've revamped our audio and video file recovery system for greater reliability. Your recordings in Rooms, Editor recorder, or Screen recorder are now better protected against network issues, crashes, and other problems.

The system works on the same device and browser that made the original recording. For best results, keep your recording tab open until uploads complete.

These improvements make recording with Descript more reliable and stress-free.

When you're collaborating on a project with teammates, we now display their cursors as they move throughout the composition. This makes it easier to follow what they're looking at or editing—helping everyone stay in sync without asking, "Where are you right now?"

This is currently available for everyone, though some users will see it turned on by default:

Try out Cursor Presence today and let us know what you think.

We’re excited to add Nano Banana (also known as Gemini Flash Image) to our image generation model options.

Nano Banana excels at maintaining consistency in details across image generations, allowing you to change subtle details or take big swing without worrying about whether you'll lose the core of your prompts.

To enable Nano Banana for image generation:

Additionally, we will now place any generated images into your AI assets folder within the Project files menu immediately after generating.

While we’re on the topic of new AI models, we’ve also added Eleven Labs V3 as an option for AI speech generation.

Eleven Labs V3 offers significant improvements in natural speech quality that can sound as good as recorded voiceover. It also supports inline prompts in brackets (e.g., [angry], [sigh]) to adjust tone, accent, or add nonverbal sounds

No additional steps are required - you don't need to create new custom voices or adjust any project settings.

While Eleven Labs V3 offers significant improvements, there are a few things to consider:

We’ve made a few changes to the Export dropdown, and added a new option to create smaller sized files when using a Descript web link.

The new toggle for "Optimize file size (slower)" allows you to create smaller video files when exporting your projects to a Descript web link. While enabling this option will add some extra processing time to your export, it can dramatically reduce file sizes.

You can now generate custom video with AI right inside Descript! Our new video generation feature lets you easily create unique, animated clips for your projects without relying on stock footage. Whatever (beguiling) bespoke video your social post, explainer video, or tutorial needs, you can have it. Just ask Underlord and it'll generate some video, tailored to your content.

all paid plan users(Hobbyist, NFP/EDU, Creator, Business, and Enterprise) can generate up to 3 minutes of video per month (that's 36 five-second clips!). Try it now and enhance your projects with custom animations.

Click here to try out the prompt we used to create the video above.

You can now create and customize AI avatars based on images you upload. Once you've created an avatar, you can generate variations just by entering a text prompt. Adjust your avatar's background, clothing or art style. These custom avatars can then be used just like our stock avatars.

Just click Create a custom avatar in the speaker menu to get started.

This update gives you more creative control while maintaining consistent quality with Descript's avatar system. Try it today to create unique, personalized avatars for your next video.

We’ve made it easier to find and generate avatars in your compositions.

You’ll now see a button in two spots:

You can now export video or audio from Descript directly to your HubSpot account—no downloading or re-uploading required.

We’ve added some powerful updates to Descript’s desktop screen recorder:

Select a portion of your screen to record by clicking and dragging. Use the aspect ratio lock or enter exact dimensions for precise framing.

Recordings can now publish instantly to a Descript share page as soon as you stop recording.

We’ve added a faster way to start recording your screen. The new opens a distraction-free recording mode right from your desktop.

To download the Screen Recorder app, open the Screen Recorder, then click the + Add Shortcut to apps button; you can also download the Screen Recorder app from your App Settings, in the General tab.

Once downloaded to your device, add the app to your desktop or dock to launch the Screen Recorder with a single click.

We’ve added a Viewer role to Descript Rooms, available on Business and Enterprise Drives.

Viewers join the session in a dedicated Viewer Room, where they can observe the Rooms session without being seen, heard, or recorded. While Viewers don’t interact with Producers or manage tech, they do count toward the Control Room participant limit.

The Transcription Glossary is now part of Brand Studio, available on Business and Enterprise Drives.

If you’re on a Creator plan, you’ll no longer see the glossary. Rest assured, we’re exploring personal-level glossaries to bring some of that functionality back in the future.

As always, we welcome your feedback. Head over to our Feature Requests Board to share your thoughts—you might find an existing post to upvote or add your comments to.

Underlord is ready to collaborate—and it’s free. You’ll see it when you open Descript. Click the icon in the bottom right corner to start chatting with an AI co-editor that knows what a good video looks like and knows how to make it.

And did we mention it's free? From now until the end of August, using Underlord won’t count against your monthly AI limits (but using AI tools yourself will), so now is the time to take it for a spin. It’s still in beta, but getting more powerful every day.

. Just describe what you want, and let Underlord do the heavy lifting.

It can add dubbing or one of our native-sounding AI speakers.

Upload a PDF of your slide presentation; Underlord will turn it into a video. It can write a script for the talk track, if you want.

It can identify the most clip-worthy moments and set them up for you.

Apply scene transition effects like fades, crossfades, directional wipes, star wipes, and blurs. It can also add animations like Ken Burns, pans, and zooms.

Check out our Learn Descript tutorial.

You can learn more about effectively prompting Underlord in our Help Center.

If you don't want to use Underlord to brainstorm, write scripts, edit your videos, make social clips, or anything, we won’t force you. For now, you don’t even have to look at it. You can turn it off in Labs settings.

This update also introduces a number of important changes to the layout of the sidebar:

Looking for more tutorials? Head to Learn Descript.

For Business and Enterprise users, we’re announcing the new Brand studio - a centralized workspace that brings together all your Drive's branding tools in one place. Now you can manage visual and language assets seamlessly, ensuring your team maintains brand consistency across every project.

Brand Studio provides a unified view of your team's branding assets, from fonts to layouts to language tools.

Brand studio allows you to view your Drive's custom fonts for use in layout packs and captions, build a transcription glossary, create a do not translate list and much more:

Brand Studio access is tailored to each user's role:

With Brand Studio, your team can now maintain brand consistency without sacrificing productivity. Every video stays on-brand, every time.

Now available for all users with a paid plan, the layout pack remix tool lets you personalize our professional layouts with your brand colors and fonts to create a consistent visual identity across all your videos.

Access the remix tool directly from the layout picker in any of these locations:

Once in the layout picker, just click the button in the top-left corner to start customizing.

Start with any layout pack from our gallery, then personalize it with:

Once created, your custom layout pack appears in the layout picker ready to use in any project—giving your videos a consistent, professional look that's uniquely yours.

Control Room is a long-requested, and powerful new feature that lets producers, and collaborators manage live recording sessions without appearing on screen or in the final recording. If you were familiar with SquadCast’s Backstage feature, you’ll feel right at home in Control Room.

Control Room introduces two new roles: Producer and Co-Host, creating flexible workflows for professional production teams:

Control room is available now for Business and Enterprise plans. Business plans support up to 3 producers in the Control Room, while Enterprise plans support up to 10 producers.

Whether you're coordinating talent, managing high-stakes interviews, or ensuring flawless production quality, Control Room gives you the professional flexibility needed to deliver polished content every time.

Descript now offers stock speakers for multiple non-English languages. These new voices allow you to create more natural-sounding content in languages beyond English, with speakers specifically optimized for accurate pronunciation and authentic delivery.

Stock speakers are now available for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Swedish. These specialized voices help you create professional multilingual content with natural intonation and accent.

To access these new speakers, click the three-line drop down in the Speaker menu, set Non-english speakers to “Show” and select the appropriate AI voice when working with non-English text.

You can now generate custom avatars for your videos using just a text description—no photo uploads required. Simply enter a creative prompt describing the avatar you want, and Descript will generate three image options for you to choose from. This new feature eliminates the friction of photo uploads while providing consistent, high-quality results that work perfectly with Descript's avatars.

We've renamed the Ducking audio effect to Lower audio of other layers to make it more intuitive and easier to understand, especially for new users.

Along with this name change, we've also made an important workflow improvement: this effect is no longer applied by default to any layer. This change helps ensure that audio mixing remains more intentional and predictable in your projects.

These updates are part of our ongoing effort to make Descript's features more accessible while giving you greater control over your audio mixing process.

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We’ve added a new Labs setting that allows you to upload files into your project from your mobile device. This is especially useful for users who record their media using a smart phone rather than a digital camera. Once you toggle it on, just click the “Upload from Mobile” button in your project to receive a QR code. Scan the code and you can then add any media files from your device directly into your Project.

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.