Hi. The implementation of layers is really clunky in Descript. If I drop video into a project, this sits permanently at the top of the timeline window. If I then put text or graphics over this video, these assets sit below the video timeline. It doesn't make sense to have text and stills sitting below the video in the timeline, but appearing on top of the video in the actual video. Whatever is at the top of the timeline should be the top layer in the video. Audio sequencers or other video editors use multiple tracks, making it easy to cut, drag and re-order clips/assets front (top track on-screen) to back (bottom track on-screen.)

I find that once assets have been dropped in to the Descript timeline, it is impossible to re-order them. I have a project with video, text and images, and I can't seem to drag & drop any of these assets to re-order them from front to back.

Having a dedicated track for text means you can drop some text in once and re-size it to preference, across the whole video for example (as you would for a channel logo or name). Whereas in Descript you have to drop text into one scene, and then copy paste it into every scene, if you want it to appear throughout the video. It works, but it's clunky.

Personally I would have the timeline work more like other sequencers where you can create tracks of different types (video, audio, text) and drop assets into these tracks, cut, re-size, lay out these assets/clips on their individual tracks, and re-order tracks so that whichever track is highest in the sequencer window, this layer appears at the front in the video.

I'm a new user, so perhaps I can do all these things in Descript right now, but I am finding it difficult and not at all intuitive.

Also, trimming the end of a video scene using the ] tool is really easy and intuitive, but trimming the start of a scene using the [ tool is impossible, because the contents of the clip slide, rather than just being able to drag the start of the clip to, say, the start of the word you want to line it up with. Hope that makes sense. Basically, keep the contents of the clip stationary, and allow the cursor to move the start of the clip left or right to line it up with the transcript.

Hope this feedback helps.