Feature Requests

Hi Descript Team, I hope you’re well. I wanted to share some feedback as a paying user who really enjoys the potential of your platform. While Descript has amazing promotional videos that showcase what the software can do, I’ve noticed that there aren’t many step-by-step, long-form tutorials that actually walk users through how to use the features in real projects. Most of the existing content explains the capabilities, but not the practical workflow. As a result, those of us who own the software sometimes struggle to fully unlock its power because we don’t have detailed guidance that goes beyond the highlights. I kindly request that you consider creating comprehensive tutorials—preferably long-form, structured, and example-based, to help users understand the full workflow from start to finish (e.g., editing a full video, podcast episode, advanced audio cleanup, captions, templates, multicam editing, etc.). This would make a huge difference, especially for creators who want to master the software instead of figuring things out by trial and error. Thank you for your time, and I truly hope you consider adding more in-depth educational content. Your software is powerful, now we just need powerful tutorials to match. Warm regards, Nathaniel

Why is the transcript text width fixed at such a narrow maximum? Please make it responsive (expand width to match pane width).

I am editing meditations and some video explanations. I use auphonic to clear the sound before upload to descript. The StudioSound from Descript are really not a good one for my needs! To continue to clear away noices that Auphonic dosent clean, I have started to split clip between the words where it is noices, and then mute those splitted off clips. sometimes it make extra problems with the words beeing to distant to each other on the Captions. When I have video, I do the same, aslo to remove the sound of Uh and Um between words, without making the video jump (if I should delete to much in between). I want a new feature where I can ask underlord to "listen" and do this muting for me on the whole soundtrack/video. Is it possible to ask for? My editing will take much quiker then!

I’m a heavy Descript user with 40+ custom saved layouts for a single client and over 50 fully edited videos in that series (each about 5–7 minutes long). Every video follows a consistent visual language: layouts, lower thirds, zooms, transitions, and pacing that I’ve already “taught” Descript through my past work. It would be game changing if Underlord (or a similar Agentic AI feature) could: -> Analyze my existing edited library -> Study my 50+ completed videos plus the 40+ saved layouts, scenes, and styling choices. -> Learn my recurring patterns: how I time jump cuts, how I use zooms/emphasis, and where I insert titles, overlays, etc. Auto-edit new videos “in my style” Take a new 5–7 minute recording and generate a first-pass edit that: Applies the right layouts from my saved set based on content and context. Proposes additional layout variations that match my visual style. Inserts titles, lower thirds, and transitions in the places I usually add them. Act like a layout-aware editing assistant, not just a clip trimmer Let me choose a “Style Profile” (e.g., Client A – YouTube Series) so Underlord knows which project/library to learn from and apply. Give me a preview timeline with clearly marked “AI decisions” so I can tweak or approve them AND over time, allow Underlord to refine its choices based on what I keep, move, or delete. This would turn Descript from an AI that helps with pieces of the edit into a true agentic co-editor that understands my visual system and applies it at scale. For creators and agencies producing dozens or hundreds of on-brand videos for the same client, this kind of layout-aware, style-learned automation would massively reduce edit time while keeping every video consistent with the brand’s look and feel.

Hi team! It would be a great little feature to have the ability to grab several audio level handles at once and move them together. I manually duck my podcast theme music under my guest's and my voices in the intro and extro. If I edit a bit of the podcast out after I have completed this ducking, the ducking stays in place while the voices and audio shift. If I could select the four audio handles as a group, I could move the whole ducking as a unit. Another option would be to have the ability to lock the ducking to the track so that it stayed with the audio. Thanks!

Please introduce a text box type of "variable" and let me define a variable in a composition, in addition to the dynamic text. Example: add a variable somewhere in the composition properties like "Guest Title" and then add a text box in layouts, scenes, throughout the episode, and have them show "Variable: Guest Title". Then change the variable value in one place, and it changes everywhere without changing manually.

Currently I use 1 video with 2 seperate audio sources. It would be nice to be able to zoom in on my face and on the other speakers face and have it switch between people when they are speaking automatically. Multicam is very complicated at the moment.

We need face smoothing effects, much like we can do on Zoom with Touch Up My Appearance. It can be very light, but it is still nice to have. Zoom has the best one I've seen so far, so I would love seeing at least that.

I use a tool called turboscribe.ai that does an amazing job of transcribing arabic words in romanized transliterated versions. Descript does a terrible job of this - I would love if Descript fixed this so that the transcriptions are much better. Right now, I have to do a lot of correction and if I want to use that transcript for captions in a long-form video I'm generating, I can't simply copy / paste the better transcription nor get yours to be more accurate. Either fix yours or allow us to fully put another transcript in and attach the audio.