Allow Layer Grouping
Autopilot
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Want to be able to group together different aspects and move them together.
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Ben Phillips
When I select a layer, one that gives me lower thirds, it gives me 4 different layers, rectangle, subtitle, title and gradient. Which is cool, and some are offset so that it comes in delayed, one from another, and not all at the same time. Its difficult when I want to move that around to another sectior or another scene. I want to be able to group all of them together, like how you can group layers together like in canva, or by linking like in Premeiere pro.
Gabe Michalski
[Telethon 2026] Tracked in Linear: https://linear.app/descript/issue/SUP-3058
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Amy
Why isn't this a feature yet? Coming from other editing programs, this is basic! Having someone's name and there job title (interview) have to be animated separately is annoying! It's SO hard to make them align time-wise. If they acted as one unit: easy-peasy!
Autopilot
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Animating Grouped Objects
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Daniel Schaeffer
It would be great if we had the ability to
- Group Objects / Layers
- Animate objects either - as separate layers - or, as a group - or, both as layers and having an applied animation to the group.
Note: Even just having the ability to group objects would be great
Autopilot
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GROUP Images/Elements - We need a GROUP option in the Right-click menu please.
Christopher
Every other editor I've used has the ability to GROUP Images/Elements - We need a GROUP option in the Right-click menu please. Example: Group multiple images and text together, so they can be resized, moved, layered, etc together each time one is selected.
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Avery Smith
WE NEED THIS PLEASE
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Rodney Roy Garcia
Grouping layers and making them into one layer (then drill down when double-clicked) will make the timeline cleaner. And so we can move stuff (such as titles) in one go!
Autopilot
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Group layers; custom animation for multiple layers all at once
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Scott Kim
I recently tried Canva Video for movie production. Generally Descript is better, especially because of its ability to edit video based on transcript, which Canva lacks, but Canva has one killer feature that I want — the ability to interpolate between two different arrangements (position, scale, rotation, transparency) of the same layers as a single operation, instead of animating each element individually. I think the best way to do this is to allow grouping of layers, which is desirable anyway, then be able to do a custom animation on a group. Once you have groups you can then apply other animations to whole groups of objects — Canva is very good at this.
BigChadP
Yes. Please add this. It would cleanup the timeline so much.
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Nick Flowers
This is from a year ago??
Maybe we're expected to create this stuff in a separate program, but that is really frustrating when everything I need is already in Descript as shapes and text and I just can't group them together for easy editing and animation.
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