When a project is created via the Descript MCP server's import_media tool, it ignores the default Project Settings I've configured in the desktop app (Project Settings → "Set as default for all new projects"). The new project is initialized with Descript's factory defaults instead.
This is most painful for "Perform automatic leveling on clips". The setting's own description says "Automatic leveling is done after import and record", so leveling is applied during the MCP import itself. By the time I can open the new project and toggle the option off, the clips are already leveled. Toggling it off post-hoc only governs future imports into that project; it cannot un-level the existing clips. The only workaround today is to re-create the project by dragging files in through the desktop UI, which defeats the purpose of automating ingest via MCP.
The other two toggles ("Add room tone to new gap clips" and "Show wordless media in script") are at least recoverable via post-import toggling, but they still require manual fixing on every MCP-created project.
Requested behavior: import_media should honor the authenticated user's default Project Settings, the same way a desktop-created project does. Ideally, also expose these settings as optional parameters on import_media so MCP clients can set them explicitly per project.
Impact: I produce courseware in batches and use the MCP to create many lesson projects per course. Auto-leveling being baked in irreversibly forces a choice between automating ingest (and losing leveling control) or doing manual UI imports (and losing the automation). Honoring my saved defaults would fix this without any API changes.