Allow pages to be private or password protected
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ishish
I love the ability to publish pages with video + transcription. But unfortunately I can't use this to make internal company training videos because those links are publically available on the web. If there is a way to publish or export an html page that i can post internally to say a wiki, this would be amazing. My hack now is to just export the .mp4 but I lose the transcription.
Andrew Mason
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Belle Liu
Andrew Mason: is this feature available now? Password protecting a published page?
Belle Liu
The lack of password protection is making the "web share link" insecure and not compliant with our IT policy. Adding hundreds of users to Descript just to view a video is not feasible.
Andrew Mason
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This is almost ready. You'll be able to make Pages either public (indexed by search engines), unlisted (anyone with the link can view but not indexed by search engines), or restrict access to members you specify.
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Elliot M
Andrew Mason: This is great news. Could we also have the ability to:
a) BATCH PUBLISH PAGES?
(I have a Pro account and can't seem to be able to select and publish multiple Pages at once)
b) have a way to link selected Pages together, so we can send collaborators / clients just a SINGLE LINK TO MULTIPLE PAGES from the same project?
(At the moment if we have say, three edited interviews as three separate Compositions, which we publish as three Pages, we'd have to email three links, one for each Page, which the recipient will keep having to refer back to. Be great if there was just a single link 'tree', or click-through links within the Pages).
Thanks!
Andrew Mason
Elliot M: why would you prefer that vs. sharing a comment only link to the project?
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Elliot M
Andrew Mason: Thanks for replying. Couple of reasons:
- Comment only link requires signing up to Descript and preferably downloading the app. Sending a Page link is much simpler, especially when there may be several people client-side who will be viewing, and who might either be uninterested in, not tech savvy enough, or not allowed by their company's policy to download, install or sign up to Descript. Even if they are interested and able, I/we might not have any direct contact with them so as to walk them through it, as we're dealing with only one client contact who is then forwarding work around their side.
At the moment for video sharing, I/we upload to Vimeo, then embed the edits into a single web page via our company website, and forward the transcripts as Word Documents for them to highlight. (Which is also why I've been pushing for this - highlight feature on Pages / Comment-Only Access:
- Additionally, granting Comment-Only Access also means large projects are then downloaded (which can take ages depending on project size and internet connection), and most significantly: means collaborators / clients can see the WHOLE of the project, not just the Compositions we want them to see. They can see all of the rough edits / works in progress, as well as all the raw footage. If they don't understand the process, and are used to just seeing polished final results, that can cause problems. It's also giving away our working practice / workflow / interview techniques, which we'd rather keep private.
Hope that makes sense!
Felippe
Andrew Mason: I was in this page at the exact time you marked it as "in progress" 🤩
1) When you say restricted access to members you specify, does it means they'd have to have a descript account?
2) And for the unlisted, will the player still have the "download" and "share" icons? Because if it does, it will not be of help as I want to use Descript player inside embeded course lesson and I don't want a button that encourages people to share a private video with others outside the course.
ishish
Andrew Mason: This is great news. We really love using Descript for recording training videos that we can use to onboard new software engineers/QA onto our team. You've lowered the barrier to video editing enough to make it easy and fast. And the transcription feature is great to be able to skip ahead to the sections you wants. With this addition we'll be able to create our own internal sessions similar to what Apple does publicly with WWDC.
Felippe
Andrew Mason: Any chance you can release a first version JUST without the "descript" link to the transcription and the share button on the top right corner?
This would allow me to start using descript while I wait for the complete privacy feature
Andrew Mason
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Andrew Mason
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Ed Blankenship
+1 to everyone here
Problem: Share an internal project update (to save having a meeting) but make sure we can still keep some collaboration going.
Workaround: My alternative approach to solve this problem is by posting an exported video from Descript to an internal Slack channel. It's very different than the Descript Page experience and loses out on some of the experiences the Descript Page got right. You miss out on reading the transcription (if you can't or don't like watching a video) and allowing other team members to comment in the context of when something is talked about in the video.
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Lucien Lu
Agreed, this would bring a lot of people over from Wistia!
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Amit Savyon
I second this desire. We've been looking for this exact experience for people watching recordings of our webinars, but we'd want to be able to restrict access
Felippe Nardi
I want to use the transcription page on my course, embedding it as an iframe, but it is both not possible (the page is blocked) but also I don't want to encourage download and sharing capabilities. And I also want to hide the descript.
Having a white label would do.
Madi Waggoner
Just wrote into support about this!
Is it possible to restrict access to published compositions? I like the idea of having a link, especially so my viewers can see the video and the transcription, but because it is internal training material on our platform, I'm very concerned about privacy.
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