Suki Wessling
I just recorded my first interview in the new Descript Rooms. I noticed two things:
  1. In Squadcast, I always downloaded my audio to my computer and then uploaded it to Descript. I did this for a couple of important reasons:
One was that I could cut out all the chatter and not pay for transcription minutes. (I don't make any money on my podcast for community radio!)
The other is that, frankly, the plugins I have for processing the raw files to get rid of room sound and unwanted noises are SO much better than Studio Sound. Sorry, but Studio Sound is a "dumb tool" and I like smart ones. So please add back the ability to choose whether you want to download or transcribe immediately. Another option is to offer the ability to upload new sound files matched to the same transcription. That way I could download them from Descript, process them, then re-upload them without using 2x transcription minutes.
  1. When my guest's connection is not great, I have learned from bad experience that it's best to stop the interview halfway and upload before we continue. I did that today, but when I went into the Project, Descript had put the two conversations in the wrong order. How annoying! This is definitely a bug and should be fixed. Sometimes I have two shorter interviews in the same project and I would definitely want to see them in the Project in the order of timestamps. Apparently you've got it set as last-in first-transcribe, but it should be the opposite.
Thanks. Otherwise I do like the redesign.