Feature Requests

I just used descript for the first time. I organized clips by scene in premiere pro then I rendered them out in order and uploaded them to descript. Once finished, I found there were several duplicates and every piece of audio was out of order. I had to search over 40 minutes of text to remove and remember that it was a duplicate. A lot of time wasted. There should be a feature to delete duplicate media and then another to search via speaker. This can help determine if one speaker is getting too much time versus the others.

A real game changer to descript would be allowing for XML imports that references the source media. Not only would this significantly speed up workflow, it would also make descript indispensable in many creative professionals pipelines. Another application called Plotline already has this and they take it a step further by using AI to identify moments of high impact of comedic relief. Using this, their ai then arranges the story. It is primarily focused on weddings but this can be applied to many different levels of productions. Please add XML support. Current workaround is to cut up the media and re-export everything (essentially baking in the edit and losing RAW/high fidelity flexibility of the files) into descript then either use those media files if exported at a high enough quality or manually replace them with the originals.

I'm a graduate student at Purdue University, Indiana. I'm working on a project to build an automated video processing pipeline using n8n and would love to integrate Descript as the core tool for transcription, editing, and highlight extraction. Could you please provide access to Descript's API or let me know how I can apply for developer credentials (Client ID and Secret)? I’m specifically looking to automate video uploads and trigger transcription and editing from cloud storage. It will be very helpful and I really look forward to hearing from you.

I have a use case where another company does some work for me directly with my clients. I want to be able to directly import the cloud recording into Descript via a URL so I can save that meeting for my client.