Feature Requests

Hello, I saw on Descript that the timeline has been changed, and that the previous one will disappear in the future. There is, of course, still the option to go on Settings, General, and Labs to toggle it on or off, but please keep that toggle there. Your previous timeline is much more easier to use, this new one is very confusing and counter-intuitive. Keep that toggle with the option for the previous timeline and the new timeline, for all users to use Descript how they prefer. This is coming from someone who loves using Descript, so please keep the toggle option there for the two timelines. Thank you!

The new timeline editor is so buggy, it's constantly refreshing between the old and new format as I edit, and I don't even think I'm using labs for the new feature set. Among the changes it keeps toggling back and forth, the removal of the scene sidebar seems like an out of touch mistake. I regularly rely on that timeline for easier navigation around my timeline (I'm regularly editing hour long videos) and utilize it often to implement edits across a video that only impact specific scenes. Removing it will actively make my work harder, more time consuming, and would ruin part of the appeal to use Descript's editor in the first place.

I often work on trains and in locations with poor connection. It would be great if there was a true capacity for offline editing like other video editing programs. Even if some AI features would not work until wifi is back. The ability to cut and adjust local files would be amasing.

For the first time I decided to use Descript for my Screen recording plus desktop audio recording, first problem is while you can choose a microphone source, you can't choose channels, so using an audio interface that has 18 channels, I can't just choose the one with my microphone, it defaults to the main outputs which means I need to record audio separately, which is fine but just not efficient. I was pretty happy about being able to adjust my camera position and move it independently other than using OBS or something so that's fine. Aligning the audio from my separate recording was a bit clunky but managed to get it lined up OK. However, you can't group the new audio with the existing scene, and when I try to slice the beginning of the video off, to keep the start, it completely mucks up the timing of the new audio, not ideal. The next problem comes when I try to film another section, so I filmed the first part yesterday, and wanted to continue today, so I press record, get everything set up, and again instead of adding to the end of the scene (which I couldn't crop nicely with the new audio either), it just stacks it on top, and is a complete mess in the timeline. When I moved the new footage over, it just cropped the end of it off for some reason? It's incredibly frustrating to use and I really don't know if this tool is saving me any time against using Davinci Resolve as simple things are almost impossible!

Please add an easy feature to "close gaps" on timeline (outside the current one that closes gaps by cutting video/audio). By that I mean, when selected, it would automatically close the gaps (the bits like 1.0s, 0.4s, 0.2s, 0.4s, 3.0s etc) by increasing the word immediately to the left of each gap to fill it (again, without cutting video/audio - just lengthen the caption). Would be awesome if there was an option to auto close gaps once timing amendments have been completed, as currently im going through and doing manually. I still need to keep entirety of the audio content as I still sync it back with other elements when i put back in premier.... hence meaning the captions only.

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

It would be great to copy and paste scene or layer effects and other properties between scenes or layers. I know we could ask Underlord to do it, but it is slower, and AI sometimes makes mistakes.

Currently, it's only possible to select one clip at a time in the Layer Lane. If you've gotten into a state where there are a huge number of clips in the Layer Lane that you need to remove, being able to select multiple clips at one time would help streamline removing them (instead of deleting them individually).

I opened the software up and the "skip left & skip right" buttons that were next to the Play button on the Timeline are gone. Please bring them back. 80% of my editing is in the Timeline, and having those buttons made my workflow TEN TIMES easier. Now I can't quickly go back to the beginning of the script while editing. So, if possible, please bring those buttons back. Thanks for your time.

Hi team, One thing I’m not loving about the new timeline is that you can no longer adjust where a scene change happens by simply dragging the scene marker at the top of the timeline. Previously, it was possible to slide the scene change point to fine-tune exactly where the transition occurs, which was really helpful for precise editing. Now, when I hover above a scene change at the top of the timeline, the only option is to add a transition. I don’t want to add a transition—I just want to accurately move the scene change marker itself. Could you please bring back (or add) the ability to drag scene change markers directly in the timeline? This was a really valuable feature for making quick, precise adjustments. Thanks!