Feature Requests

Hooks & Virality Score. Use Ai to automatically generate short form video (30-90 seconds) that has the highest chance of views.

There should be a way to simply restore the original video in a selected area, regardless of who made changes to it and regardless of what changes were made to it. It's not like Descript doesn't have the original video! I had a terrible user experience today when Underlord screwed something up and I had to unravel several other unrelated edits to restore the original video in that section and fix it.

The federal government recently postponed a rule requiring public entities and universities to comply with WCAG 2.1 Level AA under the ADA which includes Audio Description requirements for Video by (now) April 24, 2027. This process can many hours to do manually for even simple videos, and is practically or operationally impossible for many workflows or content types Audio Descriptions allow low vision users to hear a spoken description of the visual content and action happening on sc either during the natural pauses between dialogue (standard), or through pausing the video to allow the visual content to be spoken (extended). AI models have only very recently reached the technical capability of analyzing video frames and accurately summarizing the content over time. When paired with speech-to-text or speech generation models, the descriptions can be largely automated, compared to manually review, scripting, voicing, and editing. Ideal features would include: Auto-generated editable and time-aware text descriptions of on screen visual content Generation of speech audio based on said description, that adapts to updates to edits Ability to detect non-dialogue portions of a video for possible AD audio insertion Automatic insertion of a freeze frame and ripple edit of generated audio Customization of timbre timing and phonetic pronunciation for non-standard words or phrases (think company names, uncommon person names, industry jargon and acronyms) Custom voice selection and cloning. Ability for human review, editing, and customization throughout the process. As a video editing platform on the cutting of integrating AI media tools into real production environments, Descript already has many of the tools in place to help significantly speed up the AD generation for hundreds of thousands of hours of video content in public entities' backlog in addition to new content generated every year while. Very few effective commercial solutions currently exist otherwise. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/20/2026-07663/extension-of-compliance-dates-for-nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-disability-accessibility-of-web

When I use AI to shorten word gaps, it goes overboard. It truncates laughter, crosstalk and, often, actual dialogue that, for some reason, Descript didn't transcribe (usually the last word or two of someone speaking). Then I have to play back the entire composition and manually re-extend the shortenings that cut off too early. At the end of it, I don't save any time with this tool. This tool should be changed to just be "shorten gaps" rather than "shorten WORD gaps."

I am disappointed to see that there is no more this feature where I can edit in one composition and than select all media - video, audio, captions, transitions, then click ctrl+A, copy and past it all in another composition. It was very useful, easy to do feature in my every day work while editing videos! If it's possible bring it back! I believe a lot of people find that useful!

Mariage: Love it or hate it?

I know Descript can add words to the transcription glossary based on corrections (which it uses correctly sometimes but not always). But I'd like to see it incorporate more editorial corrections into future transcripts. For example, one of the SUPER-annoying things it's been doing for a while (more so with the Lab engine than with Rev, but both do it) is to transcribe partial words and stumbles like this (for my verbatim legal transcription): "I dec-- Well, I eventually d-decided to w-withdraw my, my nomination." I would like that transcribed as: "I -- well, I eventually decided to withdraw my -- my nomination. In other words, ALWAYS a space before the double dashes, never a capitalized next word if it's the same speaker after a dash, and never, ever, ever the single-letter stumbles crammed together as in the example (e.g., "d-decided"). Those scenarios are plentiful in every transcript, and if the proceeding is four to six hours, as they can be, it takes an eternity to correct the bazillion instances of those scenarios. I don't edit my entire transcript in Descript, of course, but I'd like to be able to find maybe five or ten instances of a consistent formatting/style/transcription issue and correct it in the project and have it figure out that, "Ah, I see. You corrected the same thing ten times or more. I'll follow your lead for future projects." Thank you! Karen :)

The ability to instantly send my recording for SquadCast to DropBox was THE PRIMARY feature I switched to Squadcast for. PLEASE keep if for Rooms! It makes my entire teams workflow so easy. Without it, I have to manually download and upload files to get it into the place where all the automations take off (DropBox).I know Descript is an editing platform and I used it for years, but now we have professional editors that all work on different software. A longtime customer and heavy user.

Hi! When I make a clip in Descript and then export it to Premiere, the cropping is lost as well as the captions. It would be handy to have it keep both of those things. Mr. Underlord says it's not possible right now.

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