Release roundup—October 9th, 2025

For Creator and Business subscribers on our new plan types, top ups allow you to purchase additional media hours or AI credits when you're approaching your monthly limits. Now you can handle those busy production periods without changing your subscription plan.

You can find the new top ups by opening the Settings menu → Plan section, and clicking

Top ups are purchased at the drive level (not per seat) and unused top ups expire after 12 months. When you use resources, Descript will automatically deduct from your monthly quota first before using your top ups. You can learn all about top ups on our Help Center.

We’ve added the ability to import files from other projects directly from the Project panel in the Editor. This is a great way to transfer files that you use frequently without having to re-process them, skipping the need to use Media minutes (or transcription hours if you’re on a Legacy plan.)

You can access you full library of files from within any project, allowing you to find files and quickly locate that perfect clip, intro, B-roll, or sound effect you've used before.

No more downloading and re-uploading files or burning extra media or transcription minutes – simply find and reuse what you already have.

This is our first step toward comprehensive drive media and search functionality, with more improvements coming in future updates. We'd love to hear your feedback on how this feature enhances your editing workflow.

We’re updating the way that copy and paste works in relation to Scenes and Scene boundaries.

This update makes copy and paste behavior more intuitive by respecting where you've placed your playhead or what you've selected in the timeline. The new behavior gives you more precise control over where pasted content appears.

Don't worry, it's still easy to paste content at scene boundaries, as the playhead will automatically snap when approaching scene edges in the timeline.

It’s finally here, a long request feature for our recorders: You can now Cancel or Restart recordings, giving you more control over your workflow and making it easier to start over when you need to. This feature is available for both the editor recorder, and the screen recorder.

You can change your mind and resume from the confirmation panel with both cancel and restart options.

This highly requested feature helps streamline your recording process and ensures you can quickly recover from mistakes without disrupting your creative flow.

For users on our new plan types, we’ve added the model picker button directly to the AI tools panel when you select either Generate video, or Generate an image.

When using image or video generation in Descript, you'll now see a Cube icon that allows you to select different AI models for your generation tasks. This gives you the flexibility to choose the model that best suits your specific needs.

Different models offer different strengths:

The model picker puts more control in your hands. If you’re still on a Legacy plan, you’ll eventually be moved to a new plan type, or you can switch early to take advantage of the model picker, and our new top ups.