Feature Requests

I often work on trains and in locations with poor connection. It would be great if there was a true capacity for offline editing like other video editing programs. Even if some AI features would not work until wifi is back. The ability to cut and adjust local files would be amasing.

I often use green screen to block out my home office and replace the background. It would be nice to lock these two together. I run into trouble with shifting the layers around to fit a new layout.

I could be wrong, but it appears that the handy HOME & END buttons that take you to the beggining or the end of a composition respectively when timeline is selected, don't do the same when the script is selected. In the latter case, they appear to take you to the last or next clip, as opposed to the beggining or end of the composition. This seems to leave me with no one-tap way to play the whole thing from the beggining or jump to the end. PS: fwiw, I'm using the new timeline.

With a section of the audio timeline highlighted it would be nice if there was a right click function to fade in or fade out the selected audio. This is useful to remove zero crossing clicks at the start or end of audio clips.

We've been iterating on the new timeline based on community feedback and are now ready for your input on this second revision. Since this is a major redesign, we'd like to gather more feedback before releasing it to the general public. As a thank you for testing it out, we'll send you a $20 gift card. We welcome testers of all experience levels with Descript. We've made it easy to test the new timeline without requiring a live call. Simply follow these instructions to get started: https://greatquestion.co/descript/st-tk-2

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.

Being able to select an actual camera as the 'cutaway' would be super helpful in projects that are a typical of an in-person 3 camera podcast, where the 3rd camera is a wide 2-shot. This could be added to the Camera setup settings where you select the Cutaway camera to be either "split screen" or a track like the other camera option selector. Thanks!

Currently, it's only possible to select one clip at a time in the Layer Lane. If you've gotten into a state where there are a huge number of clips in the Layer Lane that you need to remove, being able to select multiple clips at one time would help streamline removing them (instead of deleting them individually).

Be able to CTRL A (select) All clips on the timeline and then change the dimensions and position of all at once. Also being able to copy and paste attributes from one clip to another. Especially critical when repurposing a horizontal video to vertical.

This new starboard version no longer has the ability to zoom in and out via scroll wheel! This was my main navigating use! Please bring this back or at least let it be an option in the preferences! Having to press command - or + is so tedious and slow.