Being able to select multiple elements and make changes to all
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Would also be good if we could select multiple non consecutive scenes. Perhaps to apply the same layout and tweak a few elements to apply consistently to just to those scenes all at once. Or to duplicate just those scenes all at once into a new composition.
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Abhirama Tejas
I should be able to easily adjust the audio properties for one speaker.
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Katarina Galat
Just adding on, since this is something that’s been on my wish list too!
I think a “grouping” feature would work well here. Where you’re temporarily able to group elements together (like shapes or images) in order to apply changes across the board in one click. And then ungroup if you want to edit separately again after.
For example, let’s say I have a rectangle shape with some text on it and a small picture below. I want to animate all three elements to leave the scene simultaneously in the same way. Currently, I would need to apply the animation to each element separately, making sure all the settings (animation type and length) are the same.
Steve Folland
Katarina Galat Yep - agree - grouping would really help as well.
It'd be amazing to click multiple elements - copy and then paste to another composition. You can almost do this, but it doesn't quite work.
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Rachel Gristock
Yes at the moment - I just tell Underlord to do it, which feels like a waste of AI brain power!
Gabe Michalski
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Hi Steve Folland,
Thanks for posting!
We do currently have the Current Scenes / All Scenes toggle for Captions.
Are you thinking of situations where there are multiple Captions layers, or multiple text layers where you'd want to adjust parameters for all of them at once?
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Gabe Michalski my interpretation was to be able to adjust parameters to multiple text layers all at once. Same to images, for example, being able to apply a blur transition to 15 images all at once.
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Gabe Michalski I think the key here is this: It would be very helpful to be able to select multiple items in the timeline (like multiple images) at once, and then do something like copy them at once and paste them together somewhere else.
Steve Folland
Gabe Michalski Yeah, so I make the most of the fact Descript gives a lot of freedom with captions - it' not fixed to the whole project in terms of placement and size, colour etc. Brilliant.
So the caption layer in my timeline is often chunked up across scenes. Logically my head thinks I should click all of the ones I want to change whilst holding shift for example, and then make a change to all of those elements.
As others have said, same with other layers/elements.
It just doesn't seem to work this way so becomes very manual.
Gabe Michalski
Steve Folland: Thanks for the clarification. I may end up marking this as "out of scope" for the telethon, but my understanding is that this is on the roadmap either way. Leaving this open until I get further updates internally however.