Feature Requests

As we continue to refine the various editing surfaces in Descript, we're exploring how to better integrate Scenes in the Timeline. We're early in the development of this change, but are moving rapidly and would like to incorporate your feedback ASAP. We'll even throw a $20 gift card your way for taking the time to test it out. We invite anyone to test it out, regardless of your experience-level with Descript. We set it up so that you can test out the new timeline without needing to get on a live call with us. You'll just need to follow the instructions here to get started: https://greatquestion.co/descript/scene-timeline-umuxr

I think there are a number of ways that Descript can make crossfading easier. These would include making the little circle for manually creating one on the timeline bigger, creating a hotkey for auto-crossfading two clips together with a preset fade length, or automatically crossfading clips once filler words are removed. Crossfading is a key part of the editing process and is what I spend most of my time doing when I use Descript.

Currently I use 1 video with 2 seperate audio sources. It would be nice to be able to zoom in on my face and on the other speakers face and have it switch between people when they are speaking automatically. Multicam is very complicated at the moment.

Allow user ability to select multiple elements in timeline at once with shift or cmd or drag

In classic, we could easily and quickly scroll through the clips after a bulk “shorten word gaps” and just add transitions like a breeze. I don't know what's the reason of not including the clip inspector in the new version, but it's not a bright one. Bring it back, please.

I like being able to see the entire timeline, a traditional video editors offer this as a command. Shift-Z in FCP, \ in Premiere Pro Please a feature like this would be really welcome.

Make it so we can edit audio in multitrack sequences on the timeline and not just in (Edit sequence screen) So we can adjust volume and mute selected sections in the timeline. Bonus include the settings of audio into the scene (save) feature, so audio stays consistent across scenes. (SEE ATTACHMENT FOR VISUAL)

Scene/camera switches aren't currently included in timeline export. I want to use "create scenes by active speaker" to switch to whoever is speaking, and it works in descript, but when I do a timeline export and import into my video editor, all I see is every track stacked. The scene cuts are included, but I only see the top track obviously, so the speaker doesn't change. We've all seen what AutoPod can do, and adding this feature would give me the same functionality in my Descript -> Resolve workflow.

I'm not really sure how the Temperature slider works, sometimes the footages look more greenish on one end and more purple on the other rather than going more toward the yellow - blue. It feels like the Temperature slider changes the Tint also. Like all photo and video editors, a separate Tint slider would be ideal.

I find that I have to export my Descript files into Audition in order to smooth out the edits. Eg removing all the filler words is very helpful but creates abrupt, unnatural cuts that I then need to manually smooth over (by overlaying the tracks a little). The same applies to other edits. Failure to do this leaves the recording sounding unnatural and to my ears unusable.