Feature Requests

One of my roles is creating training videos for my clients and my YouTube channel. Since each video is unique with a set of objectives, a thumbnail image, and goes through content review, they are all individual Descript projects. Granted, some might have multiple compositions (more extensive video vs. a short or TikTok, for example.) I also run a weekly podcast and will frequently want to export them so I can get them up and running on my Podcast. Ideally, there is functionality to select the projects and the compositions to export and then select the output options for each. This same functionality could allow you to export transcriptions, audio only, video, and other export options. While a bulk publish may also be helpful, is the export more valuable now? I say this because many more manual steps are required before you can successfully publish to other services. I suggest highlighting how we do these things in audio and video products like Adobe. For example, I can send multiple projects to a render queue, specifically their Media Encoder product, which offloads the exports and allows you to select various options before rendering the material. The media encoder is fine-tuned to use hardware acceleration.

I want to download all the videos in the folder I create under 1 setting & not having to do them individually.

I would absolutely love being able to publish my video podcast directly to Spotify just like YouTube. At this time, the downloading via publishing feature will not upload the video properly into Spotify when uploaded manually. Spotify support says there are multiple sources.

Want to integrate descript into production workflow (i.e export from an API / trigger) so that we can automate the production of videos with subtitles.

Feature Request: Export/Report All Title Layer Texts Across Scenes I need a way to quickly view, copy, or export the text content from all layers named "title" (and ideally, any named text layer) across every scene in a project. The problem: Currently, to audit or repurpose on-screen text, I have to manually click into each scene, select the "title" layer, and copy the text one by one. This is extremely time-consuming for projects with many scenes. The solution I’m requesting: A feature that generates a list or export (CSV, text, or even a panel view) of all "title" layer texts, organized by scene and including the timestamp of when it appears. The export should include the scene number or name, timestamp and the exact text content of the "title" layer for each scene. Ideally, this could be extended to any named text layer (e.g., "subtitle", "quote", etc.), not just "title". This would make it easy to audit, proofread, translate, or repurpose all on-screen text in a project. Use cases: Quickly reviewing all on-screen titles for consistency and typos. Sharing all video titles with a collaborator or client for feedback. Exporting all on-screen text for translation or accessibility review. Repurposing slide or title content for other media/video-workbooks. This feature would save significant time and reduce errors for anyone working with multi-scene video projects in Descript. Thank you!

(re-posting here from the Discord post I made on 4/16/2024) I love the workflow syncing Descript projects out to services 👏🏻 Castopod is an open source podcast I'm using, and I'd love to sync directly to that: https://castopod.org/ What would it take to add this integration?

Latest update suddenly does not allow me to export audio from a video file. Clicking on the "audio" side of export nothing changes but shows only the same option on video side. No lossless wav, no mp3...this update is pretty bad. This is not helpful at all as now it would make me import a video file as an audio file and edit and repair all over again. Can we fix this please?

I record separate audio tracks per (host, guest 1, 2..). I'm trying out Sequences so that I can deal with crosstalk, etc while I'm editing the episode. However, I do still need to deal with some sound leveling, etc. outside of Descript. I have someone doing a final mix/leveling... for me along with combining in an Intro and outro which are recorded separately. However, I believe that you cannot export your composition into separate tracks per speaker. I THINK there's some way that I can save/export the sequence tracks but these won't have my edits from the composition/script so that's not helpful. I've seen people asking for something similar where they have a single track with multiple speakers that they would like to export as separate tracks. Although this is different since I already have separate tracks but I think it would also solve my issue potentially.

When exporting/downloading multiple files at once, it can be difficult to monitor progress and make sure everything is exporting + nothing has stalled. Sometimes I forget to export a file; sometimes I export the same file twice. This can be a real time-waster, especially without a button to "cancel download/export" (see also 'Cancel downloading project files').