Release roundup—August 21st, 2025

Introducing Templates—Your shortcut to professional videos with Underlord

Templates are battle-tested workflows crafted by our engineering and video teams for popular video types. Instead of struggling to craft the perfect prompt, simply choose a template that matches your needs, and Underlord will guide you through creating your custom video.

You can find our templates are prominently featured on Descript's home screen for easy access. You'll also find them by opening Underlord in an empty project.

Just pick a template from the gallery that matches your project needs. Underlord will run through all of the prompts automatically.

Underlord will then follow-up with questions about your assets, goals, and style preferences to customize your video.

Available templates

Our template library includes options for a variety of use cases:

Edit a video
Create social clips
Edit a video podcast
Generate an avatar video
Make a social ad
Create an explainer video
Create introduction videos
And more!

Why Use Templates?

Templates eliminate blank-page panic and endless prompt-tweaking. They're your shortcut to:

Discover what's possible with Underlord and Descript
Start projects confidently with proven workflows
Create consistent, high-quality videos without being a video editing expert
Save time by following guided, step-by-step processes

Templates are available to all users. Try them today and transform how you create videos with Descript!

New in Editor—Control Multiple Layers at Once

Power up your scene design with multi-select – our most-requested editing feature for visual compositions in Descript. Now you can select multiple objects at once to manipulate them simultaneously, making your visual editing workflow significantly faster and more efficient.

Multi-select allows you to select and edit multiple layers at the same time in the scene editor. This streamlines your workflow when working with complex layouts by letting you:

Move, resize, or align multiple elements simultaneously
Make bulk property changes across your selection
Copy and paste multiple objects at once

To use multi-select hold Shift and click on individual layers to add them to your selection, or click and drag to create a selection area that captures multiple objects.

Then, you can manipulate your selection:

Move all selected objects by dragging them or using arrow keys
Resize all selected objects by dragging the handles of the bounding box
Edit shared properties through the properties panel or toolbar
Hold Shift and click on a selected object to remove it

Note: This is still being rolled out, so if you don't see it yet, check back later today.

Interface updates

This update adds some updates to the interface to be aware of:

Selected objects show a dashed outline, with a bounding box surrounding all selected items
Only displays properties that are common to all selected objects
When selected objects have different values for the same property, it will display as "Mixed"
The outer edges of your selection will snap to guides, canvas borders, and other objects

While multi-select greatly improves your workflow, there are some current limitations to be aware of:

Text layers don't scale in the same way as other layers when resized
You cannot select layers that don't share a scene or don't overlap in time
Bulk rotation of multiple objects is not supported in this initial release
You cannot change media or cropping for multiple layers at once

This highly-requested feature significantly improves the creation of educational videos and visual projects where you need to arrange multiple elements in a composition. No more tedious object-by-object adjustments – just select, edit, and create with newfound efficiency.

Other editor updates:

You can now review the prompts that were used on generated media like video and images by opening the file with View Media and clicking the Info button.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug causing users to get logged out when switching drives.
Fixed a bug causing an recordings to result in a “something went wrong” error in projects.
Fixed a bug resulting in no video appearing from a Rooms recording.
Fixed a bug preventing some recordings from uploading.