Release round-up—August 5th, 2026

A solstice, a red moon, and a slew of new Descript features—early summer had it all. Now your jump cuts are smoother, you can schedule a recording Room in advance, edit an image just by drawing on it, and work with the latest, baddest AI models, including the fabled (sorry) Claude Fable 5.

Here's everything we released (and there's more to come).

The regenerate flow around jump cuts got a rebuild. When you delete words to make a cut, you get a cleaner modal and a toggle to regenerate video, audio, or both, so the seam between clips is less of a jolt. If you tried this before, you'd have hit an error—now it just works.

You asked for this one a lot. Now it's here. Set up a recording Room for a time in the future and drop it straight into a calendar invite. Guests get the link, and you get one less thing to spin up five minutes before you hit record. It currently supports Google Calendar and Outlook.

Fable 5 is now available as a premium model for paid self-serve and Enterprise. Open the model picker and choose it for Underlord and the AI tools when a job calls for the heavier model.

Pick an image on the canvas, hit , and draw over the part you want to change. Describe the swap (remove the coffee cup,” “replace the sky,” “take out the logo") and Descript repaints just that region and leaves the rest of the frame alone. No round trip to another editor.

Make a thumbnail without leaving your project. Run it as an AI action or just ask Underlord, and you get a thumbnail sized and framed for YouTube.

joins the picker for everyone, and is a new option for video generation. Different jobs want different models. Now there are more to reach for.

The "um" and "uh" cleanup now works in Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, and Italian, for everyone. Descript detects the spoken language and takes the filler out from there.

Captions now support gradient fills. It's a small thing on its own and the first piece of a larger captions refresh we're working toward.

We've improved how your media files are computed after import. In our testing that's meant 2–5× faster timeline navigation—scrolling, seeking, and playback. It's rolling out gradually, so it'll reach your drive over the next little while.