24 Bit Recording/Exporting
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Mattajohnson
Descript is turning into an amazing app for voice over work, especially long form work like eLearning and audiobooks, but it’s missing 24 bit recording and exporting (a critical feature for professionals to ensure a low noise floor). 16 bit is fine for screencasts and videos/podcasts that are going to end up on the internet, but for professional/commercial work 24 bit recording/exporting is an absolute MUST. I can get around this by recording in my DAW, editing in Descript, and then exporting back to my DAW, but that workflow is cumbersome. Descript saves so much time in editing and quality checks, and so being able to record and export the final product all from Descript would save even more time.
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Support Team
Merged in a post:
24 bit exporting
Jose Fermoso
You should be able to set the audio bit rate of a .wav file to 24 bit. I’ve been working with a professional audio producer and when I told him you couldn’t do that on Descript, he dismissed as an amateur Unprofessional Piece of software. You gotta do this.
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Support Team
Merged in a post:
More WAV export options
Alan Spurlock
Can we get more WAV options during export?
ie:
Bit Rate: 8 kHz
Sampling: 16 bit
Robin Dean
I'll add a third request to this. Many of us in the production industry intend to master the audio after the fact. The base for audio mastering is 24-bit, 48khz.
Again, 24/48 ... because 16/44.1 is the final master output, followed by 320k/44.1 MP3 for mass web use.
Descript is part of production, not post-production, so the output config needs to be the SAME as the input.
Let entry/basic subscribers have this.
Jesse Gay
This feature is essential for professional use. At the very least 24bit, 48KHz uncompressed audio (and preferably the ability to set bit depth and sample rate (since some workflows will call for 16 bit and/or 44.1KHz).)
If you didn't want to add any toggles within Descript, one option would be to at least follow the audio settings in Audio MIDI Setup.app (on Mac.)
If these features are enabled, please make sure that the original recording uses the specified settings (as opposed to just recording at the current 16 bit level and then transcoding/resampling which wouldn't help.)
Matt Johnson
I want to second this, but add 24-bit recording. Having 24-bit support is a must for professional use.
Jose Fermoso if you have “Creator” or above level, you could get around this for the time being by importing a 24-bit, do transcription and/or edits, and then export as an Audition/Pro Tools/Logic/etc. Then you can open up in DAW and export as 24 bit with all edits preserved. It would be nice to have this built in to Descript, but this could help you work around for now.