Feature Requests

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.

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!

This just changed today and it's not fun! While editing from the timeline and scrubbing the audio to make sure it sounds smooth, you now have to click on the timeline to play from your chosen location rather than just moving and hovering the cursor at the location I want to playback from. Please allow the user to select if they want to click every time or just hover with the cursor to playback from the desired location.

We've been iterating on the new timeline based on community feedback and are now ready for your input on this second revision. Since this is a major redesign, we'd like to gather more feedback before releasing it to the general public. As a thank you for testing it out, we'll send you a $20 gift card. We welcome testers of all experience levels with Descript. We've made it easy to test the new timeline without requiring a live call. Simply follow these instructions to get started: https://greatquestion.co/descript/st-tk-2

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.

I often use green screen to block out my home office and replace the background. It would be nice to lock these two together. I run into trouble with shifting the layers around to fit a new layout.

I could be wrong, but it appears that the handy HOME & END buttons that take you to the beggining or the end of a composition respectively when timeline is selected, don't do the same when the script is selected. In the latter case, they appear to take you to the last or next clip, as opposed to the beggining or end of the composition. This seems to leave me with no one-tap way to play the whole thing from the beggining or jump to the end. PS: fwiw, I'm using the new timeline.

With a section of the audio timeline highlighted it would be nice if there was a right click function to fade in or fade out the selected audio. This is useful to remove zero crossing clicks at the start or end of audio clips.

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.

Being able to select an actual camera as the 'cutaway' would be super helpful in projects that are a typical of an in-person 3 camera podcast, where the 3rd camera is a wide 2-shot. This could be added to the Camera setup settings where you select the Cutaway camera to be either "split screen" or a track like the other camera option selector. Thanks!