Feature Requests

As it stands, elements placed on the timeline are fixed by timestamp, not to the script. If elements are installed and edits to the script are made later in the process, those elements will likely be out of sync with the video and will need to be shifted on the timeline to realign them with their relevant visual/audio cues (eg. an element placed at the 01:00 minute mark will not move if you delete 20 seconds of script ahead of it, putting it on a 20 second delay in the updated script.) This can be painful if the script is long and/or there are lots of visual elements when the editor realizes they need to delete sentence or a phrase from the script and then have to spend a long time shifting every element by a couple of seconds downstream. If we could have a setting to map elements to something in the script (the waveform? the words?), they would dynamically shift with edits made to the script rather than being static at a point in time.

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

the trendiest content cuts to the beat so this should be streamlined for editors using this platform tiktok has this feature, which means descript should have this ASAP

It would be SO helpful to have markers appear on the timeline, in addition to on the script. It would make the finer edits much smoother to make without having to reference the text documt.

Please make it so that each timeline layer (including the script and any additional layers) can be exported at the same length with identifiable metadata, etc. for use with other services like Auphonic or Audition. This can be filled in automatically with export, in the same way that gap clips and room tone fill the script upon export. Please also make sure that this also applies to Overdub and Regenerate clips! Thank you in advance.

Video files can have chapters embedded into them, and that's how Descript and other programs like DaVinci or Premiere export markers as chapters. It would be fantastic to import the chapters embedded in imported videos a Descript Markers. The use case is editing a video in DaVinci, exporting with "chapters from markers," then import into my Descript composition with the markers from DaVinci in Descript's timeline. Otherwise, markers have to be manually added again in Descript.

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).

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.

I want to fragment an m4a audio

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.