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.

Templates are battle-tested workflows crafted by our engineering and video teams for popular video types. Instead of struggling to craft the perfect prompt, simply choose a template that matches your needs, and Underlord will guide you through creating your custom video.

You can find our templates are prominently featured on Descript's home screen for easy access. You'll also find them by opening Underlord in an empty project.

Just pick a template from the gallery that matches your project needs. Underlord will run through all of the prompts automatically.

Underlord will then follow-up with questions about your assets, goals, and style preferences to customize your video.

Our template library includes options for a variety of use cases:

Templates eliminate blank-page panic and endless prompt-tweaking. They're your shortcut to:

Templates are available to all users. Try them today and transform how you create videos with Descript!

Power up your scene design with multi-select – our most-requested editing feature for visual compositions in Descript. Now you can select multiple objects at once to manipulate them simultaneously, making your visual editing workflow significantly faster and more efficient.

Multi-select allows you to select and edit multiple layers at the same time in the scene editor. This streamlines your workflow when working with complex layouts by letting you:

To use multi-select hold Shift and click on individual layers to add them to your selection, or click and drag to create a selection area that captures multiple objects.

Then, you can manipulate your selection:

This update adds some updates to the interface to be aware of:

While multi-select greatly improves your workflow, there are some current limitations to be aware of:

This highly-requested feature significantly improves the creation of educational videos and visual projects where you need to arrange multiple elements in a composition. No more tedious object-by-object adjustments – just select, edit, and create with newfound efficiency.

You can now review the prompts that were used on generated media like video and images by opening the file with View Media and clicking the Info button.

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.

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:

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 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.

We're excited to introduce a new Home screen in Drive view, making it easier than ever to start your next project. When you open Descript, you'll find a streamlined landing page with quick-start options for all your creation needs - whether you want to edit a video, make a podcast, create social clips, transcribe a file, clean up audio, or remove backgrounds.

The new Home screen is designed to help you find what you need faster, including a Recent projects view. You'll also discover our popular features front and center, including Translation & dubbing capabilities. These will rotate over time as new features are introduced.

The hope with this update is to remove the uncertainty of a blank page project and putting the full power of Descript at your fingertips from the moment you open the app. The new Home screen is rolling out to all users in version 112.

A few weeks back we created a new AI Video maker in the ChatGPT store. This tool automatically generates a video explainer on a topic of your choosing, with customizable style and tone. Now, we’ve brought this experience into the app, available from the new Home screen, so you can create narrated, illustrated video with just a few clicks. It’s a great way to experiment with the tools Descript has to offer, or make a quick piece of content for easy sharing.

We're introducing a redesigned Editor recorder experience in version 112. The recorder now lives in the play dock instead of the sidebar, making it more accessible within your workflow. When recording with an empty script, the recorder takes up your full screen for better focus. If there's content in your script, you can see it while recording - the recorder will only occupy the Scene Editor area. The redesign aims to make recording more intuitive and accessible, integrating seamlessly with your workflow while maintaining visibility of important content during recording sessions.

Stable frame is a new feature that intelligently positions the playhead to show the most representative frame when selecting scenes or layers. When clicking on scenes from the scene rail or script boundary, or layers from the canvas, the system accounts for animations and scene transitions to display the most stable and useful frame (i.e. one that is not in the middle of animating.)

These stable frames will also be used for the Scene thumbnail to make scene rail more useful as a visual representation of the storyboard or through line of your project.

This enhancement addresses a common user pain point where the playhead might land mid-animation, resulting in a confusing or unclear view of the scene.

We’ve added two new placeholder layer types to the Elements panel for Camera and Screen video. These will to help you keep your project organized as you’re assembling layouts, and make it easier to remember where you will eventually place your content.

The three placeholder layer types are now labeled:

You can adjust these layers like any other Scene element, applying animations or transitions. Once you're ready to add your media, you can do so from the Scene-editor → Add media.

Here's what's new in Rooms:

There is a new Record button accessible from Drive view. This will open a project with the recorder open, or take you to Rooms when you select Record with others. We added this to make it easier to find our recording capabilities and give users an even faster way to get started.

We’re reposting this from version 109 as we have ramped this change up to 100% of users. A few of the details have also changed so it is worth taking a quick review:

The "Publish" button has been renamed to Export and the selection panel has been rearranged. All of the available options work as they did before but the names are slightly different, for reference:

We unfortunately had to remove the Import from YouTube option due to changes on Google's end. We are not yet sure if we will be able to bring this feature back but we will keep you updated when we know more.

Rooms, our new collaborative recording experience is out of Beta and ready for general use.

And we’ve added nice new features including more control for hosts and a network health indicator.

Here are the updates we made to collaborative recording with Rooms in v110.

We will soon require all users to verify their email address in order to continue using Descript. This should not effect as vast majority of users, who have already verified their email address. However, if you have not yet verified, you’ll receive a banner warning asking you to verify your email address. Please do so a quickly as possible to prevent any interruption when we do eventually enforce this requirement.

Many users have already been moved to an upgraded version of the Desktop application. This newer version provides a host of benefits that improve performance and playback speed. It also completely eliminates the need to store project files locally.

When the upgraded version is downloaded, any files that haven’t finished uploading will be stored for you in a local folder so you can retrieve them as needed.

Descript Version 109 features two important changes to terminology that coincide with polish we've added since launching our new Layout picker in the last update. Here's what you need to know:

We’ve renamed the main visual editing space in Descript from “Canvas” to Scene editor. This relabeling is to help illustrate the relationship between:

While the term Canvas may be somewhat common in video editing — we’re asking you once again to rewire your brain a tiny bit: Scenes are like different sets in a play, and the Scene editor is where you stage them up.

Only the wording has changed, this will not effect any existing workflows but it’s an important change to be aware of for navigating the app.

Some users will notice that the "Publish" button has been renamed to Export and the selection panel has been rearranged. All of the available options work as they did before but the names are slightly different, for reference:

This change will be rolling out slowly. As of now, 50% of users will see the new button, and increase over the next few weeks. If you’re not seeing it just yet, keep any eye out.