Feature Requests

I know the Record with Others feature is in Beta and the Squadcast recorder allowed for scheduling recording sessions. I would love to see that feature added to the Beta because having to send the link minutes before recording is problematic.

The files which I want to use with Descript are not stored on my computer, but on Google Drive and OneDrive. It would be a real timesaver if I can add audio and video files straight from those storage locations.

I would like an account wide setting added to the Advanced section of General Settings that allows me to TURN OFF "Auto-Gain Control" for recording. Currently I have to navigate to the settings and turn this off manually every time I record in Descript on a different computer or when the app updates etc. Any feature that adjusts the recording quality in any way should be turned off by default - but Descript seems to do the opposite. Allowing me to turn this setting OFF for my entire account would save me a lot of time and headaches. You can turn off "Automatic Volume Levels" in general settings - I would love to see the option to turn off "Auto-Gain Control" in this panel as well. TIA!

Quick Design recognizes chapters, add title card, put some onscreen text and insert or create B-roll. That's awesome. It does it only in the default Descript Black Layout pack. We would need it to do it with the Layout pack that we select to avoid having to change colors and font through the whole video. Thank you in advance

I just recorded my first interview in the new Descript Rooms. I noticed two things: In Squadcast, I always downloaded my audio to my computer and then uploaded it to Descript. I did this for a couple of important reasons: One was that I could cut out all the chatter and not pay for transcription minutes. (I don't make any money on my podcast for community radio!) The other is that, frankly, the plugins I have for processing the raw files to get rid of room sound and unwanted noises are SO much better than Studio Sound. Sorry, but Studio Sound is a "dumb tool" and I like smart ones. So please add back the ability to choose whether you want to download or transcribe immediately. Another option is to offer the ability to upload new sound files matched to the same transcription. That way I could download them from Descript, process them, then re-upload them without using 2x transcription minutes. When my guest's connection is not great, I have learned from bad experience that it's best to stop the interview halfway and upload before we continue. I did that today, but when I went into the Project, Descript had put the two conversations in the wrong order. How annoying! This is definitely a bug and should be fixed. Sometimes I have two shorter interviews in the same project and I would definitely want to see them in the Project in the order of timestamps. Apparently you've got it set as last-in first-transcribe, but it should be the opposite. Thanks. Otherwise I do like the redesign.

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Please give Descript Rooms the capability to schedule interviews and maintain a dashboard like Squadcast. Stop telling Squadcast users to “Consider Switching to Rooms” until Rooms meets or exceeds Squqdcast’s capabilities. I just wasted an hour trying to see how to schedule an interview with Rooms because I saw this message: "Warning: SquadCast has joined Descript and is no longer in active development. Consider switching to Rooms for a more reliable experience!" It’s not the first time I wasted time investigating Rooms. If you’re going to alarm people that they should switch, you should make it plainly visible in the same message that scheduling is not yet available for scheduling/dashboard. I had to have a long exchange with Underlord before it told me: “Rooms does not yet match all SquadCast features, like scheduling or a calendar. You can keep using SquadCast for now; it will remain available until Rooms meets or exceeds its capabilities. Descript encourages feedback—feature requests help shape Rooms’ future. There’s no set date for SquadCast’s shutdown, and you’ll get plenty of notice before any changes.”

For example, at the top of the screenshot, the duration is displaying as 1.0s, but on hover over, it shows the actual duration of 1.153 seconds. I'd be fine with rounding to nearest tenth of a second.

It would be great not to have to click through this message every time I reboot my computer (after having shut down the Descript app entirely before reboot).

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