Release roundup—March 17th, 2026

We’ve updated our color Color adjustment tools to make it easier to correct lighting and color, and to apply a consistent look across your footage.

The redesigned Color adjustments settings are now in the Properties panel instead of the Effects menu.

We've added Filter presets for quick adjustments:

This update also adds:

We've updated the underlying color model that powers Temperature and Tint. The previous Temperature slider used an incorrect red/blue range; the new model uses the correct yellow/blue range and is properly calibrated. If your project has Color Adjustments applied, you'll see a prompt to upgrade before you can edit those settings. Upgrading is reversible— you can undo it and return to the old behavior if you prefer to leave your settings as-is.

You can now generate media, add layers, and add layouts directly from the Scene editor panel when your current scene is blank - the new blank slate for any scene includes helpful a lightweight overlay with three quick actions:

Media generation now opens in one unified panel for both and generation. You can switch between and tabs in the same place, with separate prompt and history for each media type.

You will also see commonly used settings more prominently (for example, the model and aspect ratio), so you can adjust them without digging through advanced options.

Underlord now does a better job of linking from chat back into your project, so it’s easier to review what it changed or jump to what it found.

When Underlord references something in your project, it can now link you directly to specific places like:

This helps when you ask Underlord to make edits and want to quickly confirm the result without searching through your timeline.

We have made more upgrades to the lip sync. This update is designed to improve how closely mouth movements match the translated audio, and to reduce visual artifacts in the lip-synced video.

Descript has also rolled out a new AI model for Regenerate that better preserves natural intonation and pacing. When you use Regenerate to re-record a word or phrase, the replacement audio should now sound closer to your original speaking style.

You can now export

Scenes

directly. This gives you a straightforward way to save or share scenes outside of your project when you need to reuse them elsewhere, hand something off to someone else, or keep a copy.

When you generate images while creating a

custom avatar

, Descript will now automatically save those generated images to your . You can find them in Project panel → AI Assets folder → Generated Avatar Images

We made a set of contrast adjustments in dark mode to make text and controls easier to read, especially in lower-light environments.

If anything in dark mode is still hard to read, please let us know what screen you’re on and what you expected to see. We’ve also improved our highlight colors which were not well optimized for Dark mode.

When you upload audio or video to your Drive Media Library, Descript will now transcribe the file automatically.

AI model selectors are now grouped in a dedicated menu section, so you can choose and manage things like transcription, image generation, video generation, and other AI models in one consistent place instead of hunting through General Settings.

We’ve added a lightweight model picker to Home so you can quickly choose which AI model you want to use before starting a new creation flow. This makes it faster to switch models without digging through Settings, and keeps your choice consistent across your next actions from Home.

We spent four weeks focused entirely on making recording in Descript more reliable. The short version: recovery success rates improved dramatically, and several crash-causing bugs now have zero reported incidents.

Here's what changed: