I understand that the scene rail (which is on the left) may be being removed from Descript in favor of "storyboard." I want to make sure that the left rail remains as an option for those of us who are using Descript for long form videos. I use it when I am creating videos and often have 30+ scenes to work with.

The option to put these in the middle in "Storyboard view", toggling between the timeline and the video viewing area is not good from a UI perspective. Along the left, the scenes are in sequential order, and I can see where the scene is in context of the video and the script in the center of the scene and the wavefile at the bottom. It's important that it's all in view.

Trying to toggle between the view of the wavefile, and the scene is very clunky. It stops me from seeing where in the wavefile I'm editing, and the larger sequential context of what I'm doing. I think the current style is very useful, and intuitive.

If it's on the left, and I can toggle it on and off, it keeps it out of the way. I'm often copying the format of scenes depending on who is speaking, and this new way seems very limiting. I also add specific graphics based on the scene, and want to see how that works in the context of the scene, functionality which seems to be being nerfed.

For Descript to continue to support long (and short) form videos, you need this left rail option. Most videos have multiple fast cuts to be competitive on YouTube. Please don't remove this just because those who are doing simpler projects don't like it, or don't like seeing it.