We’re adding some new tools to Descript Labs. When you select clips from the Canvas, there will be a new drop-down allowing you to apply Layout changes to or For non-script layers, this same option is mirrored on the Project sidebar.

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You can now edit or add Speaker Labels to a highlighted section of your script. Just highlight a range of text in the Script and use the keyboard shortcut or click the menu on the Selection toolbar.

Speaking of the Selection Toolbar, we’ve updated it to include a Dropdown menu under the Ignore (strikethrough) icon that includes options to Ignore media, Delete media, Replace with Gap Clip, and Remove from Transcript.

Finally, we made it so that Drive Admins can change the access level of a guest member on a Project. On individual projects, Admins can choose between Can Edit, Can Comment, and Make Owner for their guest member permissions.

This week we’re introducing a new AI Action called It will seek out the parts of your project that best represent the throughline of your content.

This action is perfect for creating supercuts of your long-form content, or it can be used as a more thorough alternative to

Find good clips.

Whether you’re trying to my a podcast highlight reel for YouTube or just trying to boil down that 3-hour sync meeting into something more digestible, is your new production buddy.

Our AI Edit actions and are getting a quality of life update. After looking over suggested edits and applying them from or , we now offer an easy follow-up action labeled to quickly clean up your script by removing all ignored media.

We have resolved a problem that some users have encountered: if you sign in with the wrong email address, the app will treat it like a new user signup and you have to click through the onboarding steps including a plan level. This was confusing users who had already purchased a plan. While you could always select Free, then logout and log back in with the correct email address - we’ve added a Switch Account option to the drop-down in the upper right corner as an escape hatch if you end up signing in with a new email address by mistake.

As mentioned a few weeks ago, White Glove transcription has officially been disabled.

Our Stock Speaker library continues to grow, and this week we’re adding a new pal to the mix, Robert. We’ve labeled this voice as a Casual, Older, Masculine character.

Meet Robert:

We will continue growing the Stock Speaker collection throughout the year and have some other AI voice surprises in store so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Text layers can now have different properties between Scenes, so you can use a different font or styling between sections of your project. When you select a full layer with multiple properties, you’ll see the word Mixed in the Font and Style section, and you can select any scene to see its scene-specific properties.

You can select the properties for a layer within an individual scene by clicking the layer in the Canvas during the desired scene.

This update pairs well with the recent launch of the Timeline Redesign available with Descript Labs, which improves the visual clarity of the Timeline.

The Speaker Label menu has been improved with some changes the Replace Speaker option. We moved it to a button under the ellipses […] menu, with a popout to Create or Select a different speaker in the project. You no longer have to type into the Speaker Label box to reveal the option.

In addition, we collapsed the Speaker label color picker into the ellipses […] menu next to the Speaker name.

We’ve given AI Summarize a big boost and it can now handle compositions of length. If you ran into issues with Summarize failing on longer compositions, you should give it another try now.

We’ve caught a bug that causes MacOS Screen Time app to erroneously report the QR app as active when it’s just enabled in the background. We think the issue is with the Screen Time app, and have reached out to the developers to find a solution. We will post updates here when they are available.

The Quick Recorder is an easy-to-access and instant-to-use way to record a thought, send a video message, and generate content on the fly.

Starting today on MacOS () - the Quick Recorder has leveled up.

We have made improvements to:

There are two modes:

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

: In a recent update, we added a Default publishing privacy option to the Settings menu. We recommend choosing a setting due to the new features.

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There’s a new drop-down menu on the Sidebar that allows rounding all four corners separately with a different adjustable radius for each corner. When you have multiple corners adjusted but the dropdown is closed, it will show a Mixed status.

The canvas toolbar also has some new options to adjust the position of media in the frame, including a Top or Bottom, Left or Right, and a Fill Canvas option. This last option is great for layers that may have a slightly different aspect ratio than your main Script.

The AI Action to Add Chapters or Markers has been improved with a new “Add Timestamps” option. This will show the relevant timestamps of the Chapter markers so you can copy them to your clipboard for an easy way to export your chapter positions.

We’ve also made improvements to Remove Retakes, which should now be much more effective at finding retakes in your Script. If you had any issues with this action last week, we invite you to give it another try.

We added an option to Search → which will Duplicate your selections to an existing Composition folder.

Welcome to v78.2.1 of Descript

Normally, major updates are given a new unique version number, but for technical reasons, we had to release a patch with version number 78 earlier than expected. The standard versioning logic will go back to normal in v79.

This update includes several improvements to AI Actions, project workflows, and lots of bug fixes.

We’ve improved the AI Actions experience with some new features, and backend processing improvements.

You can now page through responses within a single AI Actions session. If you liked an older response better or just want to compare results between follow-ups you can review all responses so far or try a different approach for a previous response.

AI Actions applied to longer scripts have received a major boost, and you should expect to encounter fewer errors related to script length.

If your previous attempts have failed for this reason we highly encourage you to try again with this update.

We’ve added categories to the AI Actions menu for easier navigation and a clearer sense of what each action can do.

After a long session of recording, producing, and editing the last thing you want to do is spend time trying to find the best moments to market your content.

Find Good Clips hunts down the juiciest, most concise, and shareable delicacies from your project to streamline the creation of promotional video, YouTube shorts, or anything else for your highlight reel.

Sidestep the hours of manual editing and let the AI spotlight the best moments of your content.

Just click the Action Bar, Ask AI, and select Find Good Clips:

When the Action is complete, click Select in Script:

And finally, you can Duplicate them to a new composition:

With Find Good Clips creating captivating short clips has never been easier.

Additionally, for a more directed search, you can try to locate specific topics or themes in the project.

Welcome to Descript v77. This update comes with a few new quality-of-life features, some workflow improvements, and bug fixes. Keep reading for full details.

We’ve added tick boxes to Drive view so that you can move multiple projects at once. This has been a highly requested feature that makes Drive organization much easier.

You can now search for sections of text and duplicate them to a new Composition using Find and Copy. Using the “Include Surrounding Sentence” toggle makes for a quick way to pull clips straight from the search bar to a separate composition. This adds more flexibility to the existing “Find and Copy to clipboard” option in previous versions, and pairs well with some upcoming AI actions (stay tuned.)