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Descript Project Workflow for Beginners

descript is amazing but frustrating I'm here to fix that in this video I'm going to go over a complete descript project workflow for the absolute beginner I'm going to go slowly and be very explicit as I go so it's going to be a long one go ahead use the chapter markers to skip around if you need and I recommend having this YouTube video open while you're going through a project alongside in descript so you can see the the technique or the feature and then do it on your own project the video on your screen right now is the one that I'll be editing today and I've left a link in the description of this video to this exact same video file so that you can download it yourself and edit it with me or even better use your own footage instead of this one if you want to use my video this one right here go into the description below and click on the link which will open the page that you see right here with this video called to edit this that you see is descript custom video player so from here find the download button in the top right it's this down pointing arrow with a flat surface below the arrow and you click on that and it'll open up the video in another page and'll automatically start playing now to download it to your computer there's one more step you have to to right click on it on the video itself or if you're on a laptop two fingers I recommend use a mouse if you have one and then you'll have the right click capability but again if you're on a laptop two two fingers so then when you right click and you have this open hit save video as it opens up this option and I'll just keep the name in there original that's fine and I'll hit save all right and now it's just going to take a moment to download it's already almost halfway done so so it goes quick no big deal there but while that's downloading I'll talk about best practices for using this tutorial as we go through it feel free to pause it rewind it go into full screen mode if you want go into 2x speed do whatever you need to do for your particular learning style in order to master the features that I'm going to show you today and if at any point you get stuck or you have any questions about anything that I cover feel free to drop them in the comments below and I'll resp respond to you there or check out my course where I go into a lot more detail about everything all the features in descript and that course is at descript mastery.com I also do one-on-one tutoring calls links to both services are in the description below okay it looks like our download is complete so let's get started when you open descript for the first time this is what you'll see this is your project workspace and for you if you are an absolute beginner you're not going to see anything here but eventually this is where all the projects that you create will go and each project each video project has a little thumbnail next to it if you hover your mouse over it you can see a frame of what that video is as well as the title of it the duration of it the size in megabytes or bytes or even gigabytes if it's really big like this one you have who the owner is if it's you or if it's somebody that you share the workspace with when it was created and the last time that it was viewed all of these can be sorted if you click on them you can sort from most to least in any of these categories you can also change the view by clicking on this button in the top right let me gr big make my window a little bigger here right now it's in list view you can change it to grid view by clicking on that button and once again you can sort by different parameters there it's up to you I'm going to go into list view because that's the default you can sort by your most recent or just recent projects in general right here downloaded meaning the videos are on your computer as opposed to just in drips Cloud whether they're owned by you or whether they're shared with you from somebody else so that at a high level is how to interpret all this there is a quick recordings tab this is for if you make a screen recording of yourself or a webcam recording and it's it's a a little different than a normal project we'll talk about that more later you have ai speakers this is how you create a text to speech AI voice where you can type something in and the AI will read it in your own voice we'll talk about that later there's templates templates are a way that you can take any setting that you make a lot basically any repetitive task that you find yourself doing in descript and you can make a template out of it so that you can apply it with the click of a button private workspace are things that are only on your own work that are only in your own drive as opposed to shared with other members of your drive so just like it sounds it's private you have your workspace down here which is just another view the projects are everything unorganized the workspace view down here is where you can set up folders and you can make things a little bit more organized and you can make folders right here here with this new folder button now you'll notice below my workspace I have three other options these are things that I have favorited and the way that you favorite something is you find this little star and then you hit it and now it's favorited that one was the YouTube shorts folder and you can now see it is under my easy access under my workspace view I'm going to go ahead and unfavorite that and it's gone and I showed you the the the thumbnail if you hover over a video if it's an audio only project it'll just have a little microphone right there and inside of our this view here the workspace view if you hover over to the left of your project you'll see this little check box there and that is so you can make a bulk action so you can select multiple projects and then you can go to the three dots and you can say move to and I can move all of those into a folder eventually they don't have this option yet but eventually there will probably be a way to bulk delete things bulk remove from your computer and so on okay so that is how to read all of the workspace options you also have if you have multiple drives or you're editing for clients there's a drop down here where you can go into other work other drives rather and you can go into your settings with this button right here you can add members to your drive add other editors with this add members button in the top left and lastly you have normal settings and things you can look at a help window where there's a debug option there's check for updates descript 78.1 point2 is the current version as I make this and all sorts of different resources here at the top okay without further Ado let's go ahead and make a project and we'll do that with the plus new button it's this big blue button in the top right go ahead and click on it and we have a drop down we can make a video project which is audio and video we have an audio project which is only audio we have quick recording which is a project but you're more limited in the editing features it's just a quick capture of your screen or of your webcam and we have remote recording which is squadcast which is another service that integrates with descript where you can make a recording of an interview with multiple people so let's go to video project it says retrieving project as it sets it up and the first Placer where your cursor is blinking is going to be the title of your project so let's go ahead and name this tutorial video and if you hit enter it now skips down to the next line and this is your transcript so when you add a video it's going to automatically transcribe it into text and that is going to be how we can read our video and edit our video there is an uploading it's letting us know that it is uploading my another Pro process I had going in the background it's uploading it to the back so anytime you see that spinning there's something something happening something processing in D scripts backend okay to familiarize you with the user interface here we're going to go over some key terms that you need to know so over here on the left is our scene thumbnail bar and this will make more sense once we add more scenes and have some video in here but basically this is going to be a preview of how our video is broken up so that we can quickly and easily navigate through it here once again is our transcript section and you can add files here you can split things into scenes you can record add recordings here and a lot of other things as well here moving over to the right one box is our canvas so it's got this light gray and then inside is a black box this is where our video we'll be able to see our video as we're editing it you can change the aspect ratio right here in the in the top left so right now it's in landscape mode which is the standard 16x9 that's the YouTube format the long form YouTube format as well as you know what a lot of things on your TV would be yeah just the general landscape format next you have a 1ex one aspect ratio which is a square equal sided square and you have portrait which is the vertical mode it's it's taller than it is long or 9 by 16 and you can go into advanced mode where you can set different aspect ratios I'm going to do 1080p don't need much more than that for this but I'm also going to return it to landscape and then you can get more granular it defaults to 1920 by 1080 but you can type in numbers here to make it something more custom by default those numbers are going to be linked meaning let me change this to 1921 and notice that the height went up with the width the reason is is they're linked so if I click on that they're now unlined let me return it to 1920 and now you see that this one did not change so I'm going to make it 1080 once again and hit return and it's telling me that that's full HD Ultra HD is 3840 by 2160 we don't need that for the sake of this video and consider what you need because if you go 4K is a very large file it's going to take up a lot of space it's going to be slow to edit so for all those reasons pick what you need and not more or less if you can get away with it now frame rate this is you can go from 23.98 frames per second all the way up to 60 frames per second the default is somewhere in the middle at 30 frames per second that's what I'm going to go with for the sake of this video if you have more questions about frame rate picking the right one Etc you can do it a Google search or a YouTube search about the best option there but I'm not going to waste time in this video going into detail on that okay let's go ahead and close out of that there is a option here in the top right to expand the canvas so by default this is kind of small you can click on that and it'll make it full screen once again in the top right shrink canvas and we're back to where we were here on the right is our properties bar it is open by default this is where we can make changes to our layers we can make changes to the duration all sorts of stuff that we're going to go into later this is where we're going to spend a lot of our time today is just right here in the properties bar you can close it by clicking on that in the top right and that makes your canvas a little bit bigger there turn it back on by clicking it once again right to the left of that is the comments section this is where you can leave comments with your teammates so you can leave specific comments at specific timestamps so that you can communicate about the project that you're editing together super useful okay once again back to our properties and with all of these you can put your mouse in the boundary between the two sections click and drag and you can resize things so this makes the transcript smaller and the canvas bigger or vice versa and then same same same thing with the scene thumbnail you can make that smaller bigger to an extent okay moving on the next thing we're going to do is add a file to our project and there's several ways we can do this one way is while you're inside of your transcript click add file and then you can drag and drop something in here or you can click add files and then find the file that you want to add select it and hit open that's one way I'm going to show you another way before I do that the other way is to just find the file on your computer on your desktop wherever it might be and just click it and drag it and release and now it's now it's there you'll see once again anytime you see this spinning something is processing if I hover over it it tells me that it is uploading it tells me the name of the file and it tells me how long it is and there's a little check mark next to it and that indicates that that is the file that I currently have previewed right here you can also play it and make sure it's the right video make sure it's what you were expecting there's three dots here where you can do different different settings I'm not going to go into those right now but we will talk about those later by default it inserts it into script or there's this little drop down here where you can add it as a new layer your script is what gets transcribed by descript you can think of it as your main layer your base layer everything above the script is a supporting layer so this is going to be our script layer this is our most important layer and this is what we're going to use and again back to the beginning of this video you can download this file to your own computer so that you can use it you can use the exact same file that I'm going to be using and we can edit together or feel free to use your own footage if that's better for you whatever you want this video is linked in the description okay insert into script I'm going to click it and the first thing that happens is it says set transcription Language by default descript will automatically transcribe your files in the selected language you can change this at any time in your app preferences so pick your language presumably it's English and you can toggle off if you don't want it to prompt you again but I'm going to leave it on Just for demonstration purposes and now all you can do is Click transcribe or if you don't want to transcribe you can hit this x at the top right button of this box now the reason you might not want to transcribe is if you're on the free plan or the Creator plan where you have a limited amount of time that you can transcribe per month on the free plan it is 1 hour and so if you're trying to transcribe your video don't need up your time and you can just close out there but if you want to transcribe go ahead and press the transcribe button and now you can see there's one more popup it says transcribing it's telling us the file is transcribing the number of speakers so if you have an interview here or you have multiple people on camera you can select that here in this case it's just me so I'm going to select one there's just I'm letting it know there's one speaker and it says detecting speakers so if it already knows or if it's already had videos before where you've identified this particular speaker it might be able to identify who it is it says it's found multiple speakers in this file so it didn't work perfectly well because it's just me but let's see what it what it found I'm going to hit get started and you can't hear it but it's it's playing a preview of me and it said who's speaking so I'm going to let it know it's me Ross and I'm already in there because I've trained an AI voice on myself so I'm going to click that and now it's playing a second preview and of course once again it's me so I'm going to select myself says that's it if you need to add if you need to adjust the speaker labels simply drag and drop I'll hit close and look at that our transcript is now in there and it's labeled at the top I could hit this x button to relabel it or rather to get rid of my label I can relabel it by clicking on the name and then there's this drop down you can choose yourself or you can go to stock AI speakers and these are like narrator voices or like deep or you know just typical narrator voices that are very professional sounding okay so our file is now transcribed look at this this this is my entire transcript a couple things to point out here is first of all this slash right here at the beginning that indicates that this is a scene scenes are how we break up our project into smaller units so that we can apply effects to smaller parts of the video versus applying it to everything and then you'll see some words are underlined in blue that's words like see right here I repeated the word what twice so so it underlined the first one in blue it's telling me that that might be a mistake and what these are are filler words these are words that don't add anything to what I'm saying and descript has a tool where we can get rid of these so the very first thing I'm going to do as part of my workflow once this has been transcribed is get rid of those filler words and if you see this actions button in the very top we can click on that there's several things here there's a new layer there's remove filler words shorten word gaps and we're going to do remove filler words so if you click on that it now highlighted all the filler words in yellow and it tells me it found 78 filler words if I click on this right here it tells me everything that it found so it found 32 um 16 o six so three likes 21 repeated words so I can get more granular if I want to change what it found the repeated words sometimes you want to keep those in us and ums are almost always you're want you're going to want to get rid of them the exception to that is if the um or a is really close to the following word and then it gets clipped by cutting it but we'll look at each of these individually they're also here on the right and you can see the word in context so right here it says I've done this just talk about an hour or just talk for about an hour so I can click on it done this um just talk for I can click on the next one mostly uh now that we have more people so it plays it in context it plays like a second before it plays the filler word and then it plays the second after and what I can do with this is I can click this x to remove the result basically saying this is fine this is a good filler word I'm going to keep it or I can hit remove and if you were paying attention to my transcri it's now gone and right where that was there's this vertical Gray Line and that's telling me that my video has been cut at that point that something is missing from what was originally there now let's do it again so here is the this one in Orange that's highlighted in Orange is where my current where it's currently looking so I can hit remove and it's gone talk about notice it was if and if was lowercase now it's capitalized because it's now at the beginning of that sentence now the other thing we can do is remove all if I know that I want to get rid of all of these they're all bad filler words I can do that with the click of a button I'm not going to do that just yet because I want to I want to change what I'm searching for here so I can unselect all and then I can just search for ums and O I know for sure I want to get rid of those so let's go back and see what it found okay 44 total and us and I could search through these on the right and just make sure I want to make the changes it also puts the timestamp of where that video or where that word was found so that one for example was found at 9 minutes and 7 seconds in my video but again I'm just going to get rid of all these and actually one second there's delete I want to go over some terms there's this there's delete by default there's delete and replace with gap which would just put a a video that has a black frame and is silent so it' get rid of my voice and it would get rid of my video there's ignore which will do a strikeout so let me show you how this looks so let me select this one right here um just talk for so I have this right here this orange one highlighted and if I hit remove no got gray out and there's a line through it that is gone now from my video but it remains here in the transcript so I can stay aware of it in case I want to bring it back and if I wanted to bring it back I could simply hit that restore button or I can hit delete which again removes it and now it's gone but okay with all of these us and ums I'm just going to go ahead and delete them I'm going to hit remove all and they're gone I get this little notification in the bottom middle deleted 43 selections and now I'm going to change my parameters once again ums and O are almost always I don't want them but some of these likes and SS and repeated words I'm going to get a little bit more granular with these just checking what what you're able to see and instead of delete I'm going to do ignore on these a best practice is to do ignore because then you can bring them back if you want so with these ones that I'm not as sure about I'm going to do that I'm going to hit remove all using the ignore option and you can see there it is okay enough about the filler word removal I'm going to do shorten word gaps this is the next thing to look for and with shorten word gaps you can look for big pauses in your video so right now it defaults to looking for 3 seconds or more so this is 3 seconds where it doesn't identify any speech in my video and 3 seconds is pretty long I'm going to bump this down to two two seconds two seconds or more and you hit enter and then you can choose what you want to shorten it to so right now it's set to shorten to 1 second I could make it zero I could make it just so there's no nothing there at all no Gap or I can make it 0.5 or anything I want so let's see it actually didn't find anything that was two seconds or more let's try one second or more okay there we go so now very similar to the filler word we can see different gaps of 1 second or greater and how long they are so this one's 1.1 once again we can click on it to play it in context got let me just verify and it plays one second before plays the Gap in a second after so I can make sure if that's really something that I want to remove and if it is I can hit this shorten button some templates and it just put that it just cut that 1.1 second Gap to half a second now we can find gaps on our transcript with these little but these little dots right there if you see those those light gray dots and I don't have a lot of big dots but if you had a really long long one you might have several lines of dots so it really depends on how long the Gap is and you can turn those off as well on the transcript so that you don't see them but for now they're there and then once again we can review these one by one we can click through the arrows the up and down arrows here to review them individually or we can just blank it shorten all I'm going to go ahead and do that I don't know if this is a good edit or not but that would be something to look into your individual project so shorten all there we go and then we get this notification in the bottom shortened 17 word gaps okay and the next thing I would do is just go through the project and start making my rough cut so maybe there's Parts where I repeated myself and actually descript just added a thing to do this so right here this remove retakes button let me let me show you that again so right here at the top there's your AI actions tab so go ahead and click on that right here at the very bottom is ask Ai and then there's this thing that says remove retakes and what this is is if you shoot a long video this is what I do when I'm making a video is I'll just shoot it in one take and I'll do a particular scene or a sentence and if I make a mistake I'll just start over and then I'll know to go back and edit it in post well descript uses AI to make this really easy you can just do remove retakes and it has this prompt in here which is detect and delete all the repeated takes from this recording I don't think it's going to find any because this was from a webinar that I did in November but I'm going to hit return and see what it finds and it says AI is thinking I can stop it okay so right here where it crossed out some things cross out things that it thinks are retakes and I could say apply edits to script in which case it would go ahead and remove those or I can say copy edits to new composition it would just take this edited version and copy it into a new composition I'm going to talk about compositions in a moment or I can hit start over to just run the process again I'm going to go ahead and apply edits to script and I can see my my video is now 10 minutes and 17 seconds long it was 10 minutes and 22 seconds so it got rid of about 5 Seconds it got rid of this line right here and I can tell that because it's crossed out and it's light gray if I wanted to bring it back I could simply hit the restore button or I could delete it if I decide I don't want it and hit delete descript is non-destructive so anything that you delete or ignore or get rid of in any other way you can always bring it back and we'll talk about that in a moment so first of all I mentioned compositions I want to go into what that is so your project you can think of your project as a folder a folder that holds compositions every project has at least one composition so this this video that I'm editing right now is a composition inside of a project and the project is called tutorial video if I click on it in the top left I get this dropdown and there's a button that says enable multiple compositions I'm going to go ahead and click on that and now I have a composition called tutorial video inside of a project also called tutorial video by default it gives it the same name as the first composition but again if you click on this one it you get a drop down this is a left click you get a drop down and it says comp compositions and then there's a check mark next to tutorial video this is the video that I'm currently in this is the composition that I'm currently in and I can hit new composition right here and now I'm in a second composition so this is an Untitled composition inside of the project called tutorial video Let's return to our first composition and now we're back in here and I can rename this project by clicking on it I get this drop down this is a left click and right here at the very top it says rame so I'm going to go ahead and click that and I'm going to change this to tutorial project and notice my video one is still called tutorial video so let me call this tutorial composition okay so hopefully that makes that a little clear there's project and there's composition every project has at least one composition now before I start chopping up my video into smaller scenes I'm going to go ahead and apply things that I want to apply to this entire video so that includes my sound editing and any special effects that I want to add so to do that to add your sound effects the typical ones that I would add to this project click on the layer click on the video and you'll see here in the properties bar there is an audio effects section and if you don't to see your properties bar again at the top right you can left click on this button here and that'll toggle your properties bar open and Clos so in your properties bar audio effects you go to this by default there is this thing that says Studio sound under it Studio sound is a really cool feature it uses artificial intelligence to touch up your audio so if you have dogs barking if you have traffic noise if you have anything going on this can make it sound it can get rid of those to make it sound like you're recording in a studio to turn it on all you do is hit this little toggle here click on that and now you can see it's working because there's this little spinning bar it says processing as well as this toast in the bottom right that says applying Studio sound to and then your video file name now Studio sound is really simple there's not much you can do with it the only thing you can do is change the intensity and these this little icon here that looks like dials if you hover over it it says effect settings and if you click on it you get this little drop down and there's only one thing you can do with Studio sound well really two things the first one is turn it on and off the second one is adjust intensity by default it goes to 100% intensity now why would you not want to use 100% intensity sometimes Studio sound if it's too intense can make your voice sound robotic it can take some of the tone out of your voice it can cover up things like laughs it it might detect your laugh as a background sound and so it just sounds like this awkward weird noise and it can make your voice sound robotic so for all those reasons you might consider turning this down with my particular setup with the mic that I use in the room that I use I find that about 85% works well so you simply click in there type in the number you want to adjust it to and then hit enter and now it's going to be at 85% Studio sound you can also click in there click on the blue bar hang on click in the intensity bar and drag to the left to lower it or drag to the right to raise it and I recommend just do some trial and error click in a setting play it which is to the course to my website and business see how it sounds if you like it stick with it if you don't like it raise it or lower it accordingly and you can get rid of Studio sound simply by clicking the toggle button once again and now it's off just like that and you can delete it all together with this minus button there and it's gone go back to the plus button and read it and the interesting thing about Studio sound is once it's been applied once it applies instantly so it it locks in that that setting and you can just immediately toggle it on and off see what you prefer right below that is ducking if I'm going to add background music or sound effects then this is when I would add ducking ducking what it does is let me go ahead and apply it and then go to the effect settings and you can see the amount of ducking is 10% what this does and it says in that black box to the left of it is other tracks will be reduced to this level except when a gap clip is playing on this track so what that means is if I have another track let's say it's my music track it'll be reduced to 10% so that that music track isn't overpowering my voice and then if there's Parts where I talking that music will smoothly increase in volume to its maximum level until I start talking again when it will drop back down to 10% so ducking is really useful if you have background layers like music I'm going to go ahead and close that the next thing I would apply I'm going to go back to the plus button I'm going to go into Dynamics and we have compressor and limiter I'm not going to talk about limiter because that's not as common but it's useful if you have a really loud background compressor is good for really loud or really quiet it lowers it compresses as the name implies the dynamic range of your audio so I'm going to go aad and click on that and we can now see it's automatically applied if I click on the effect settings icon I have all these settings if you know what you're doing here if you're a sound guy or a sound woman you can change the threshold change the ratio attack release and knee I'm not going to go into all those I usually just use a default which if you click on the word default you get this drop down and I always do podcasts and voiceovers so I find that the classic voiceover works really well I'm going to click on that and it has a default set for all of these numbers I'm just going to close on that and let's take a listen let's see how it sounds now and here it is this is the new sounds pretty good I'm happy with that there's also other things in here like creative you can do bitc Crusher Distortion flanger Reverb which kind of adds an echo effect to your voice so all of those things might make sense to do in different types of videos for this video I don't want those those are all going to distort my voice okay the next thing I might do is change the Audio Level by default descript will sometimes um adjust this automatically so if your voice is really loud like maybe you're really close to your microphone it might automatically lower the Audio Level here to a negative debel level mine's at plus 0.0 DB the video sound was good enough so I'm gonna let's let me just play it let me see how it sounds ending page for gript Mastery it's almost a little bit quiet so let me just bump this up let me do plus 2.5 see how that's sounds I've got and feel free to drop that's fine I'm gonna I'm going to stick with that I can click in there I can adjust it left and right or I can just click and then type in a number like I just did both options work to the right of that is a speaker icon it'll be on by default but if I click it it is now muted and you can see my audio effects everything disappeared along with that because it's going to mute this entire layer so let me turn that back on and now we're going to be able to hear it again there's this opacity here if I wanted right now it's at 100% meaning you can see it completely if I wanted to turn it down and make it kind of hazy I could do that where you can barely see it doesn't make sense right now but you could see how for other layers if you put something on top of this you might turn the opacity to something less than 100% as with the sound there is a button right to the right of the setting where if you click it it makes it completely zero opacity so you can't see it at all and it looks like a shut eye icon if I click it again it turns it on and you can see it okay the next thing I would do to this whole video before I start chopping it up into scenes is here under the effects section Now by default there's a green screen section thing or green screen feature open if I toggle that on it's going to process this for a moment you can see applying green screen to original. MP4 and this isn't going to work great because my image is so small in the top right I'm actually curious to see what it's going to do at the beginning it'll work great and you'll see in a moment when it's applied what it does but this is using AI to take out my background so while that's processing let me apply something else oops and I keep getting my my recording menu there on the right side so let me just make this a little bigger move it around let me hit this plus button and if you go down to this eye contact this is the next thing I'm going to apply this uses AI to make it look like I'm always looking at the camera even if I'm actually reading off of a teleprompter or looking somewhere else so super useful for video walkthroughs like I'm doing right now but it does tell us it's in beta so it may take a while to process and it may not be perfect but let's go ahead and apply it there we go and for some reason the green screen didn't actually do anything so that didn't actually work correctly it should have removed my background so there's just black behind me but that didn't work so I don't know why and I'm not going to troubleshoot that live but that should work like if you've ever used Zoom where you can take out your background it should do that effect when it's working apologize that it's not okay the other thing is chroma key if you have an actual green screen if you have a green background behind you you would use chroma key and chroma Key by default let me close these toasts so I can see it there's a setting so for example oh okay there we go the green screen just kicked in so let me let me close the chroma key before I talk about that so there's my green screen let's see how it looks once I start sharing my video I'm scrolling through my timeline you can scroll through your timeline if you have a mouse with a wheel by pressing shift and then scrolling up or down if you scroll down it'll scroll to the right on your timeline okay so notice because it didn't detect a person this is where I was sharing my screen it did the green screen effect on me on the top right but it also got rid of the screen I was sharing so that's why I was saying this doesn't really make sense to apply on this type of video so let me go ahead and select that layer and I'm going to turn green screen off by clicking the toggle a left click and it's off and now it's back to how it originally was but let me finish my discussion on the chroma key so if we go to our effects hit the plus button hit chroma key the way this works is again this is if you have a real green screen like a Green Sheet behind you you can set the color of the sheet which it defaults to this but I could also get rid of this yellow background for example and that did that that didn't do a good job because it also got rid of everything but then you can set the similarity so this is how similar the colors that it's getting rid of in pixels are and if I slowly bring it back so that's with 0% similarity and it's it got rid of the the wall but it also got rid of all the similar shades of yellow in my face in my clothing in the the carpet and wall around it so again not a good example but that is how you would use an actual green screen and let me just get rid of that by hitting the negative button and it's now back to how it was okay so the next thing I would do is if I had the green screen I could apply a background let's go a and do that actually just for fun so we can go into our media bin here in the top right or here in the top middle it's this media bin and it produces this drop down right here the first tab you'll be on when you open it is files I can go to videos I can go to gifts but I'm going to go to images for this particular instance and then if I come down here I can just find one that I like like this one looks nice looks peaceful it's just a little stream you can click click on it and it says loading media that's downloading that image from descript or whichever third-party stock footage service that they use and it's going to put it into my project in a moment okay while that's loading I'm going to show you some other things when you have a layer selected one very important thing in descript is where your mouse is and what you have selected or if for example if I have this layer selected this is my video layer I have all these options if I click into the canvas all those options go away but I have a different set of things that I can do like add transitions effects background color so notice when I clicked on that it made a white background I can click on this little white dot in the background section and I can make it any color I want like so and then I can hit this little x button to close or actually one other thing to show you is this eye dropper with this eyedropper you can select a specific pixel and you can replicate that color so here's this gray background boom and now it's all just gray that's a little confusing because it just Blends into the canvas but I think you get the idea of how that works so okay there's our background it finally finished loading and notice this is our introduction to layers that background is now a layer right here this blue one that I have selected and it's on top of my script layer again script layer is like your base layer so I now have something on top of that and I can adjust it by right clicking on it hit select layer correction one below that layer order and you can bring to front which it's already ran front it's on top of all my other layers I can bring forward which will just move it one layer forward if I had a bunch of layers I can hit send to back or cor correction send backward which moves it one layer back or I can hit send to back which moves it all the way to the back which is what I'm going to do because this is going to be my background so there we go that layer is now in my background and now with it still selected I can tell it's selected because the blue line around its perimeter it might be really hard to see in YouTube but it's there and on the corners there's these little white dots and if you notice when I move my mouse around it I have these this cursor turns into a double arrow and on the corner it turns into an angled Double Arrow so if I click that it'll change in proportion it'll change proportionately if I move on the sides I can just make it longer and then I can adjust that layer with my arrows so right now I'm clicking the up arrow and you can see it's slightly moving up and down or I can click and move it up and down left and right whatever I want I can adjust it to get it just right and I release and that layer is now in place and if I click into my canvas so that no layer is actively selected you can see my layers right here there's my script layer on top of the scenic layer and I can click these and adjust the order by clicking holding and dragging and now I put my Scenic evening View on top of my script layer so now my script layer is hidden I'm going to undo that by just clicking and dragging and there we go and now if I click on my script layer and you can tell your script layer because it has a purple box around it instead of a blue box so now that one is selected and same thing I can adjust it I can move it up and down left and right I can make it bigger the little white dots in the corner I can drag to make that bigger I can hit undo con command Z on a Mac control Z on a Windows or you can go into file correction edit and then undo like so and with a layer select did you got these things above it this little menu here you can hit fill screen which makes it as big as it can be inside of the canvas you can hit this circle which it made me expand and filled into a circle doesn't make much sense to do right here you can change it into landscape portrait you can crop it you can rotate it there I am upside down you can flip it there there I am opposite you can flip it horizontally correction that first one was horizontal the second one is flip vertical which will put me upside down like so and there's three dots where you can change the layer order we saw this before I can bring to front bring forward send backward send to back I can hit view media I can hit replace media which I could change this image into another image if I wanted I can change the source we can talk about all those later I don't want to confuse you just yet okay so now that we have an interesting looking video here let's talk about scenes it's time to finally talk about scenes and what scenes are is a way to break up our project our composition rather right now this whole composition is one scene and I can tell that because right here on the left is my scene thumbnail right now there's only one one scene thumbnail telling me there's only one scene and the scenes are noted in your transcript with this slash button or this slash symbol as well as down here on your timeline you see this this little thumbnail with the number one next to it that is indicating that this is scene number one now if I wanted to create scene number two I can move my cursor on the transcript to wherever I want to put it so right now right before the word if let's say I want to put my my next scene right there I can type a slash on my keyboard forward slash or right here to the left there's this ad scene button and if I click it I now I have a second scene and now there's scene one on my left scene thumbnails and there's scene two and by default the thumbnail that you see here is the first frame of scene two down here on my timeline I'm going to hit command and use my scroll on my mouse to zoom in again that's command while holding command scrolling or if you're on a laptop two fingers on the trackpad the other option for scrolling in is down here on this bar if you see the this little dot you can click on that your cursor turns into two arrows and you can scroll to the right to zoom out or you can scroll to the left to zoom in and now we have scene one denoted by a thumbnail and the number one and then right here to the right scene two with the thumbnail and the number two and then once again you got it on your your scene thumbnails on the left and your slash right there on the TR the transcript to get rid of a scene we can put our cursor right before that slash and simply hit delete on your keyboard like so and it's gone that scene is now gone but I'm going to add it back by pressing once again the slash button okay now we're back to two scenes okay so the reason that we break our project up into scenes is so that if we make a change to one scene it'll apply to only that scene so for example right now my playhead this vertical black line on the timeline is my playhead so right here where you see that it's telling me that's at 9 seconds. 74 that is the frame that appears right here in the canvas that exact moment in this video as well as right here in the transcript you can see that blue dark blue line with the blinking cursor that is where we're looking right now so it doesn't matter as long as I'm inside of scene one anywhere in scene one I can add something to it for example I could add an image again or I could add a video I could add a gift which are like these little memes these usually funny or there's something from a movie I'm not going to do any of those right now I'm going to instead do a title so up here in the top middle is this T that says say text when you hover over it if I click on it I can do title subtitle or text these are all going to be pretty similar and what these are are static so let me go ahead and add a title so it adds a big title right in the middle of the video and what I want to point out here is this is a new layer it's this blue layer here on the timeline it's on top of everything it's on top of the background of course and it's on top of my script and it just says the word title so in the preview it just says title down here but what's important to know is because I added it inside of scene one it filled the entire scene so it starts at the beginning of scene one and it ends at the end of scene one now I can adjust it if I put my mouse on the very end boundary of it you see how it turns into a bracket I can click and I can drag to the right and it extends now into scene two or I can click to the left and make it so it does not fill the entirety of scene one but by default it's going to fill the scene where you add it okay so clicking on that layer again and then clicking here onto the video I'm going to highlight those words and just change it so I can just type in there as if I'm editing a PowerPoint I think I think most people watching this are probably familiar with how that works so again that was a double click onto the scene itself or onto the the layer itself to allow me to change the title now if I click away and then I click and select that layer once again I can drag it around my canvas and let's move it down here so that it's not covering my face now the other thing is with it selected and if you see there's a blue border around it letting me know that it's selected I can resize it we're familiar with this by now the white dots in the corners or on the vertical and horizontal boundaries we can resize it like that but we can also look in our properties bar under the text section it is default to robato that is the font is robato if I click on that there's a number of options here I can select a different type of font like let's do lotto and it's so big that it goes into it just puts the last letter into a different line so let me just expand that so I just made it bigger so that it all fits into one line I can change the weight so the only option is black which is like a really bold heavy weight but you could do with other ones let me find another one let's do enter so with enter I can do black or I can do medium I can do thin extra thin light regular semi bold I can do anything I want with the weight next is the size of the font itself right now it's at 200 it's really big so let me let me bump this down to 120 I just clicked in that box it's a left click and then type on your keyboard whatever number you want to resize it to 1 two 0 and I hit enter and now it's a lot smaller moving on you have your alignment so right now it defaults to centered but I can make it left aligned I can make it right aligned I'm going to stick with Centered for the purposes of this you can also do your justification so you can make it top aligned correction I guess that's I guess it's also called align so top align which moves it to the top of your text box center aligned or bottom aligned I'm going to stick with bottom aligned I like that looks and then the last option in your text box is standard case also known as camel case this is where some letters are capitalized and some letters are lower case if you want to make it all capitals right to the right of that is this uppercase button and if you click on it look at that it's all caps now so pretty convenient the next thing after that that is the fill color it defaults to white but let's say I want to make it red I can click on this little white circle here and I get this drop down and I can just move my pixel to any color that I want I'm going to make it red so I'm going to go to the top right corner and I'm just going to close that box and now it's red our text color is red I can add a border to that with this plus button here click on it and by default it's a weight of 10 I can click in there and drag to the left to go all the way down to zero or I can go all the way to whatever I want to some ridiculous until it fills the entire screen I'm not going to do that of course but I can click in there and just type a number let me do 15 okay that looks good I can change the color of the border right now it's black I can make it a white border like so and and oops my descript recorder is in the way so I'm just going to cancel out of that I can get rid of the Border by clicking this negative sign or I can bring it back and it's back and it remembers our changes so I I had a white background and that weight it remembers the last setting that I had I can add a background to the text again we're only manipulating the text layer right now by hitting the plus button and added a black background I could do white background I'm going to do like a light like a dark gray close that you can add Shadows that makes it pop a little bit you can do the effects where you can change the intensity of the blur the color all sorts of different shadow effects right there you can also do Chrome a key color adjustments blur all sorts of different stuff I won't get into all that or this video will be even longer than it's already going to be so that was titles the next thing I'm going to show you is captions captions are different than titles because titles are static you type in what you want it to say and it stays that way captions are changing captions are based off of your transcript and they're synced in time with your transcript so if I go back to the T it's the same button that we added the title with and we go down to captions and simply click on that there we go it added a caption and now watch what happens when I play this and we're live welcome to the November edition of the dript Mastery webinar and there we go you can see it's moving with my words it's reading the transcript now as before as with everything in descript this is a layer so so right here it's just called captions and by default once again it only applies to the scene that I added it in so I recommend if you're going to add captions and you want it to cover your whole video add it before you start chopping your video up into scenes so let me add it into scene two because scene two is the entire rest of my video the scene one is only 25 seconds long scene two is everything from 25 through the end so once again I'm going to go to text captions and now that caption layer covers the entirety of my video I could also have taken this caption and just drag dragged it like clicked on the boundary and then just dragged it all the way to the end but that's a little tedious so that's why I recommend just add it from the beginning and have it set how you want before you start start chopping it up into scenes okay so with my captions layers selected as before I can move it around I can change the colors I can change the look I can do whatever I want to it right now it's a black italic I can make it black make it bold you get the idea I won't go into all the considerations with the look and feel of it I kind of like this with a yellow you can also add a like karaoke effect so here in the style tab this is new and unique to captions it's not something you can do with the title but with captions you can do classic which is just what you saw where it's just reading my transcript and it's simple karaoke makes it so that the current word I'm saying has a background and then the future words are a different color so let me show you what this looks like if I hit play or any of my services we can talk about that as well and and on that note so you can see it bounces the highlighted word as it uh goes forward in the script and you can change the color so there's the background that blue one I could change it to yellow and then the the active word has a white background I could change it to Red like so I'm not suggesting that this is a visually appealing but it's something you could do about the course or any of my services we can talk about that as well okay so that is captions captions are really useful and that brings up another point if you're going to be using captions it's important to have a really accurate transcript so let me go ahead and let's bounce back to talking about the transcript and correcting the transcript for a moment so I'm going to show you first of all entering correct mode so if you select on some words drag and highlight like let me take this whole sentence that says this is like the fifth month that I've done this so I've selected that whole sentence and when I release my mouse this box pops up over it there's a bunch of different options here you can do the ask AI tools you can add a layer which would be like adding another b roll or something you can hit replace but for our purposes we're going to do correct and it puts in that entire highlighted section in a text box and let's say descript AI oops I accidentally clicked something I didn't mean to let's say ai's uh drips AI messed up the transcript it it picked up the word fifth but it should have said fourth well I can select that word inside of that correct box and I can type in what I meant for it to be like so and then when I hit correct there it is it's now in my transcript it's now down here on the timeline the word fourth is right there and if I play it it'll be in my captions this is like the fifth month that I've done this now notice the audio didn't change I'm still saying this is like the fifth month even though the word say fourth because I manually changed it so be aware of that later we can talk about actually changing the audio as well with the AI speakers but uh we're not there yet so another way to get there is you can do the same thing you can highlight some words correction let me go back a step you can hold C on your keyboard and when you hold C like the first letter of correct on your keyboard you can see my cursor has a little pencil below it now and now if I click on a word it pops up my correct box immediately so if I say it says this but I meant to say that I could just make that change hit correct and now that changes in place so that was just one word I can also hold C again oops correction you don't even need to hold it you can just tap it and then you can select a whole line as I did before like so and then let's say I wanted fourth to be like the number fourth boom like that okay so that was the correct tool and then also getting there on your keyboard through the letter c the next thing is the letter X on your your keyboard like x-ray so if I hold X notice my cursor has a period and a comma after it so what I could do now is when I put my mouse over something it gets a light gray background behind it if I click on it notice this word this has a period behind it if I click now it has a comma if I click again it has no punctuation if I click again it has a period and notice when it adds a period the next word just is now capitalized and if I go back now it's a comma and the word just is lowercased and again I'm holding the letter X this whole time okay the last one the last keyboard shortcut for your transcript is the letter Z if I hold Z notice there is an uppercase and a lowercase a below my mouse and if I go to a word like welome which is currently capitalized I can click on it and now it's lowercase click Capital click lower and I can do that to any word like if I want to say the November Edition all caps I can do that okay so those are the ZX and C hot Keys very very useful for correcting your transcript so what I would recommend is if you're going to use captions it's important that your transcript is accurate so go through fix up the punctuation fix up the spelling and get everything looking exactly how you want it Okay so we've done captions we've done titles we've done some transcript correction we've done scenes the next thing we can talk about is adding audio so let me go into our media bin we have this drop down once again we can go to audio there are two headings under audio there's music and there's sound effects let's start with music under the music category there's all these are all the different song names you have the name and then over here on the right you have how long the song is and on the left a play button the play button allows you to have a preview of that song before you go ahead and add it to your project so let's just play this one that's called called little pastry [Music] instrumental very good you hit it again to pause it and then if you come over here to the the empty part with the name if you click anywhere in there a left click and it's going to add it now once again I'm inside of a layer or I'm inside of a scene I'm inside of scene one so it's only going to apply to this scene when I add it so let's go ahead and add it and it says loading media that's just letting us know gript does download everything when it adds it and then it'll add it as a layer which we'll see in a moment while that's loading I'm going to talk to you about one more way that you can add it which is back to your media bin you can go to files and then if you had a uh audio file on your computer that's your own audio a file not one of the D scripts like you have your own song then this is where you could add it you could go to add files browse through your computer or you could drag and drop it into here and then you'd be able to add it in that way okay it's kind of slow I don't know if dript servers are are a little sluggish today but it doesn't normally take this long the other thing we can do in audio is there's that music heading right next to it is sound effect and oh one other thing you can search these so let's say here in the music bar in the search music you want to find a certain genre so you could type in classic for example and it's going to find all the different classic music in its Library that's kind of cool so anyways next is the sound effects and it still has classic in the search bar so it found me some classic sound effects whatever those are but by default here's some interesting ones again play button to preview it I'm not able to hear those for some reason I think it's a little slow and I misspoke I said that this audio file would only fill the layer that I added it to it'll actually add the entire music file so this one is like 2 and a half minutes long so it added the entire thing even though crossed a scene boundary so the other thing I want to point out let's go ahead and play it fifth month that I've done this just talk for an hour about your questions mostly now that we have more people so it automatically made it negative you can see that I have that layer selected because it's dark blue so I have that's my music layer and it also has sound waves so as opposed to let me make this a little bigger as opposed to my captions layer or my background layer this this one has has sound waves that those black lines just like my script layer and if I click away from it it's it's a Green Layer audio is green everything else video captions images those are all going to be this blueish purple layer so audio green when you select it though it's blue dark blue and what I wanted to show you is here in the properties bar let me make this smaller again it made it 8 DB so descript automatically did that it made it so that it would be quieter while I'm talking it's not going to overpower my voice but if you remember let me select on my script layer once again I added this thing called ducking which lowers the background music to 10% so now that music layer is going to be 10% it's going to play at 10% of8 DB so it's not even audible I can't even hear it right now so I'm going to bump that up to like positive 6 which is pretty loud and you can see the sound waves are like it's almost completely black now it's filling that whole thing so that's going to be really loud but it's going to play at 10% of that because of ducking so let's play it let's go ahead and talk about the biggest update which is to the course to my website so just like that the next thing I'm going to show you is Fades so with any layer you can do something called fading and crossfading now to do that at the top Corner if you put your mouse on the timeline over any layer it can be your script layer it can be your music layer it can be your title this little white dot appears in the top left corner and if I hover my mouse over it it says Zer s click for more options if I click there's this fade F thing and it says the duration right now there's no fade so it's 0 seconds audio fade 0 seconds you can also do with the audio there's a cross fade option but we can't do that right now because it's the beginning of our video there's nothing to Cross Fade to at the back side of this there's another dot right there and right if I click on that one now I can do a cross fade and what the cross fade is is it'll fade out of the first clip and Fade Into the second clip so it's just a way to smooth out your transitions but I'm getting ahead of myself back to the white dot if I click on that you can simply slide it and that creates a fade in and you see the number that says plus 1.47 s that's telling me that this fade is going to start in black or whatever color I decide and it's going to take one 1.49 now seconds to reach full opacity so let me start this video over and this only applied to my script layer so me it's only applying to my head and so let's see how this looks I hit play and we're live welcome to the November Ed so that was a 1 and 1 half second fade in I can do the same thing on the Fade Out clicking I slide to the left and it adds the fade out I'm going to bring this out to 1. .5 1.51 there it is 1.5 and let me just jump forward a bit the blue line is my Play head once again that's the image that I see on the canvas I'm going to hit play like the fifth month that I've done this just talk so I I faded out for a second and a half there and then I can get rid of it by simply clicking the white dot again bringing it back to the line and now it's at 0 seconds that fade is gone and now I'm going to show you a cross fade so using this white dot instead of dragging to the left if I drag into the adjacent clip I'm now creating a cross fade you see how there's a big X and the fade goes into both directions it's now a 1.8 second cross fade let's see how this looks fifth month that I've done this just talk for an hour about so it kind of was a funky effect there this isn't a great clip to demonstrate it on but basically it fades out of one and Fades into the next one including the audio so there was kind of a weird overlap there of the audio files which it's not the ideal clip for cross fading but you at least know how to do it okay the next thing we're going to do is add shapes so we can add a shape by going to our top menu bar and this little icon with a square and a circle and it says shape when you have your mouse over it when you click on that you get a drop down and you can add a rectangle an ellipse a waveform a progress bar a line or an arrow once again when we add one of these it's going to become a layer that fills our entire scene right now I'm in the first scene so that's what it's going to do so let me add an arrow to start with so I click on it left click and it's now in my first first scene you see the blue on the timeline here our layer fills that entire first scene and here is what that layer looks like so it's got a DOT a white dot on the starting and a white dot on the end and I can click on those white dots and reposition them any way that I want to so let me just have this arrow pointing at our text box and if I click off of it you can see how it's it's it's really thin it's really narrow it's not very big so I'm going to click on that Arrow again to select it and now my properties bar looks a little different every layer is going to have different options in the properties bar hopefully you're picking up on that by now if it's an audio layer you're going to have audio settings if it's a captions layer you're going to have captions layers where you can add things like the karaoke effect you get the idea when I have a arrow this is what my properties layer looks like and if I go to layout I expand it with that little toggle icon I have two sets of X and Y coordinates the first set of x and y coordinate if you remember back to high school what was it algebra where you learn X and Y axises so we have our X and Y AIS for a start point and an end point for this arrow and you can click and here and you can adjust it adjust the X and Y AIS or you can click in there and type something 140 for example and then you can do the same thing for the end point hit enter and it locks that in you can set the border and the Border here being the arrow itself so a five is what it currently is that's the width and I can make it like a 15 and now look at that it's pretty big now you can see it a lot better and then right next to that that is this little ring and that's your fill color so I'm going to make it red I can do a preset let me just do let me do yellow to match the the captions so just like that I have my yellow arrow it's 15 15 in thickness let me do a 20 there we go I can add a shadow as before and all sorts of different things like that now I'm going to talk about animations but not just yet let's add another shape the other thing that I want to show you is for example a progress bar let's add a progress bar so once again it adds this shape it fills it adds a layer and it fills the entire scene that I added it to and the interesting thing about progress bar is it goes off of the current playhead and the current scene so this playhead or the scene is about 24 seconds long and the playhead is about halfway through and as such this white bar in the progress bar is indicating what's already been played the gray part is indicating what hasn't been played so for example if I play it pay attention to the progress bar questions mostly now that we have more people we can it moves in time as the scene progresses I can resize this so I can make it smaller or narrower rather and make it fit the whole scene and now let's see how it looks and do a lot more Q&A and with this once again our properties bar looks different we can round the corners or sorry this is for changing the angle of it so I can put it at an angle if that was something I wanted to do return it to zero I could make it so it's a different color the let's make it yellow everything's yellow so far I can make it right now it's a bar but I could make it a ring that that's kind of cool I can make it a ring so let's see how that looks and then talk about the updates of what's come out pretty cool I could make it a pie so similar to the ring but since the last time we did this now it looks kind of like Pacman pretty cool let's go back to the bar and let's make this fill the whole top you can set the start percentage so maybe you want it to start 25% of the way through and now look what happens at the start of my scene where the progress bar starts the progress bar starts at 25% because I told it to I could have it end by default it ends at 100% which is the very end of the layer but I could say I actually wanted to end at 75% I don't know I can't think of situations offand where you would do that but it's an option to you so let me reset that to zero and 100 you can add a border to the whole thing there's a black border now that adds by default black and 10 in width you can change the background color right now it's that light gray with 50% opacity but I could make it green for example now let's see how that looks and we're live welcome to the November Edition cool yeah different different options in there for you back to our shapes we have rectangle which I won't go as depth in as in depth as this one but as before you got X and Y you have height and width you have by now some of these things should be familiar to you we've talked about height and width we've talked about X and Y we've talked about the rotation this one is the one that if you type a number in there it'll tilt it certain degrees this one is new though actually this bottom right one in the layout section it's currently set to zero and this is your corner rounding so with the rectangle a zero is 90° Corners that's a sharp corner but I can bump this to let's say 50 and now look at that it's got a smoother rounder corner and you can put any number in here up until it becomes a circle I can put 200 and it's basically an oval 250 300 barely changing at this point it's almost completely a circle let me knock that back down to zero typing zero into the corner rounding box hit enter and it's a square again we have our fill I won't go into that we've already seen it border and effects so that should all be familiar at this point in the tutorial I'm going to go ahead and delete the layer by pressing delete on my keyboard while it's selected and it's gone then we have a waveform waveform mimic the audio in your script so if I play it D script Mastery webinar I do these every month this is like you can see the waves bounce with my voice and you can change this once again normal layout options you have lines you can change it to a circle the fifth month that you can change it to a ring I've done this just talk you can change it to wave or an hour about your question you can change it back to lines and you got color for the fill you got size Fidelity magnitude which is how big they are and mirror which will just flip it so pretty cool stuff you can do with that but the next thing I'm going to do I think we got a gist of all of these the line is just like an arrow without the tip of the arrow it's just a line that's all but the the properties are very similar to The Arrow so the next thing we're going to talk about is animation now animation when I say that people might think of special effects or you think of cartoons like a Disney Animation that's not what animations are in descript animations are moving layers so way to make something Zoom and pan is a default and the way I got here is in the properties bar with a layer selected I currently have the arrow selected you see this animation at the bottom of your properties bar hit the plus sign and there is a zoom in pan zoom in spin or custom so let's just apply a spin this is a default built into descript and it's going to apply it starting at where my playhead is so notice my playhead is about at the 13 second Mark and if I go ahead and click on spin you can see it added a little rectangle to the layer I had selected which again is the arrow and it added another one a couple seconds down the timeline so here's what happens this is the starting point of that layer it's a starting key frame and at that key frame it looks like this it hasn't changed at the ending key frame notice it's like off the screen so whatever happens between these two rectangles is what's going to be our animation let's see how your questions mostly now that we have more people we can do a lot more Q&A and then so it does like a pendulum it's swinging off the screen and it's pretty slow so if I the way I can change that is I click on my layer and now it has an animation one with a pencil and a minus sign if I had a bunch of animations they'd all be stacked down here animation 2 animation 3 Etc but we only have one animation one so if I click on the pencil I can edit it and it's got our rectangles again I can make that same the animation exactly as it was but I can make it quicker by moving the second key frame closer to the first let's see how that looks hit play questions mostly now that we have more people and now it's like just a second and a half versus like a 3se second animation let's change it again back to our our scene the arrow or rather our layer the arrow layer I have it selected we see our animations hit the pencil I can make it longer this would be like a 10c anation mostly now more people we can do a lot more pause that edit it once more and I'm going to go ahead and delete that so oops I deleted the whole layer so the best way to do it is to just hit this minus button and now that animation is gone if I add another one back to the plus button I can do again there's a zoom in option and zoom in pan I always do custom because this gives me the most control so by now you have a familiarity with how these two rectangles work so the first one once again is your starting key frame the second one is your ending key frame so what we can do is let me go to the starting key frame and I'm going to move this layer off the screen so now that starting key frame everything up to that point so from the start of this where this layer begins at the 0 second Mark to that point that layer is going to be off screen it's going to be out of our canvas out of our view and then by our second key frame by the second rectangle by the time our playhead hits that our arrow is going to be right here so it's going to animate smoothly to appear and we're live welcome to the November Edition like that and it's kind of slow so I'm going to adjust it I'm going to make it so that it's like a half of a second so let's go ahead and play that welcome to the November and there we go that Arrow slides in there and I could do that with any layer once again all the principles are the same once you learn how to do it so let me add an animation I clicked on the word tutorial our title that we added earlier I'm going to go to animation oops my descript recorder keeps popping in there hit the plus button hit custom if you want to do custom or you can do the preset I'm going to do at my starting key frame I'm going to have the tuto the word tutorial start off screen and by the time it reaches the second key frame it's going to be back where it was so let's go ahead and play that moving the timeline back hit play or you can hit space on your keyboard we're live welcome to the November there we go and that just adds some motion at the tutorial slides up and into view and the arrow slides right and into view so that is animations animations are a little tricky it's not super intuitive how to do all that but hopefully you have a Bas basic understanding of how to go ahead and add those now related to animations is transitions transitions are between what happens between scenes and the The Fading that I showed you earlier like the cross fade that we have here at the 10-second Mark that is is a transition but there's another way to add Transitions and to have even more options which is to right here on this section right here in the properties bar transitions but to be able to see that you have to make sure that you don't have a layer selected so click into the gray part of your canvas so that no layer is selected and then find the transition section hit the plus button and you have a drop down that has in and out and they have the same they're identical in what they show they have fade crossb cross Zoom cross fade dip to color directional wipe and star wipe fade is what we already did so we saw one way to add it this is a second way to add it and the way to interpret these is in is what happens at the start of the scene we are still in scene one so if I do a transition in this would be the effect that we start with and if I do a transition out this would be the effect that happens between scene one and scene two so I like this cross zoom and let me show you what happens when I do a cross Zoom so again this is what happens between the end of scene one and the start of scene two I'm going to hit play and this is the last time we did this if you have any questions about that so if you saw that it does a big zoom in and kind of a rotation around and it goes into the next scene so let me go back to my transition I have my cross Zoom I'm going to keep that and then there's this the effect settings I'm going to click on that transition out yeah it gives you yet another chance to change the effect it has the duration so it defaults to a 1 second Zoom which is pretty slow I usually knock this down to about Point 4.5 somewhere in that range hit enter to lock in that change and then there's a blur amount so the amount that you saw was a 200% blur let's just knock that down a little bit to 150 hit enter and that locks in that setting hit the close we'll close that box and let's hit play and see how it looks this if you have any questions about the course all right cool and that kind of just makes things a little more interesting between scenes now let's add a sound effect just for practice back to the media bin you have your files videos gifs images audio again music we're going to go to sound effects I really like this whip wisho for sound for transitions like so click on the word and it says loading media and there it is now I'm going to zoom in on my timeline again you can use the bar on the bottom or you can hold command and scroll wheel or two fingers on your laptop to zoom in and so what I'm going to do is this is my whip wisho effect this is the layer the blue one right here right where my mouse is and I'm going to just simply click it and drag it to move it to where I want it to be and you can see the the black sound waves on this sound effect I'm lining that up so it's right in the middle between the two scenes and it's going to try to lock into place if you see those red dotted lines it's trying to lock it into place so it starts the sound starts at the start of that scene but you got to kind of finesse it to make it so it doesn't click into place you got to just slide it over until it is positioned where you want it to be and now let's take a look if you have any questions about the if you have any questions about so notice I you probably can't hear the whoosh because remember we have ducking on and it's lowering everything to 10% of the volume so that whip wisho is at 7.3 and it's getting reduced further by the ducking effect so it's super quiet and I couldn't hear it at all I'm going to make that plus 10 and now let's see how it sounds if you have any questions about that okay I could hear it a little bit that time like very good so we have some transitions we have captions we have titles we have a background got all sorts of cool stuff going on let's add a gif the way we can add a gif is back to our media bin and then into our gifts section you got giy gifts which are these These are the default these are always changing based on I don't know what's popular what the algorithm serves up and then there's giy stickers which are more like animated type of gifts the giy gifts are more like clips from movies these are more like emojis and kind of animated type of things so I could add something like this dog so I just click on it and it says loading media so I'll just give it a moment to download that file and notice my entire it filled my entire video with this GIF because my second Scene goes from 24 seconds all the way to the end at 1017 so typically I'm not going to want it to to do that so what I can do is with that layer selected and it's a blue layer because it's not audio is right here in duration you can set how fast it plays 1X is just normal 2x would be double time and so on and it's telling me that it plays for 9 minutes and 52 seconds now I don't want that so what I can do is is right here where it says Loop right now it's saying that it's looping that gif until the end of the scene which happens to be the entire video or I can say once and now it just plays it one time and it's 5 Seconds long 5.8 seconds so let's see how that looks I'm going to hit play if you have any questions about the course or any of my services we can talk about that as well and on that cool now I can click on that dog that gif once again I have white dots where I can adjust it I can move it around the page and our dog is now positioned how we want it to be very good and one thing I can show you here is notice how this layer is on top of myself so my shoulder is behind it I can click on that layer go right that's a right click by the way right click I get this drop down two finger cck click on a laptop I come down to layer order and I can say send backward okay it sent one now if you look on my timeline the captions layer is on top of this GIF but my shoulder is still in front of it so it's not quite far enough back yet I'll right click again layer order send backwards now check it out my shoulder is in front of that dog it looks like that dog is just behind me pretty cool so you can manipulate layer order just like that you can also click into the canvas and once again here are our layers I could simply drag it so let's say I want to bring my dog up to the front again now it's in front let's say I want to bring it back now it's behind click drag now it's behind even my background so I can't see it at all so very important is understanding how to work with and understand the layers okay so that's GIFs now let's talk about recording so this whole video is recorded in descript all of my videos are recorded in descript and to create a recording you go right here at this record button and you have three options you can do Audio Only which will just do a audio track you can do camera which will do your audio and Camera oh there I am I'm playing with my hair you can see me and to start it you just hit the Red Dot and that would start the recording or you can close out of it with that X back to our recording button you can do the screen recording this will do your webcam your audio and your screen of your computer and then be below those three options you have more settings whether to play the computer audio or not so this is like let's say you're playing a video on your computer whether you want that audio to be heard or not you can toggle that on you have your camera if you have your built-in face FaceTime camera on a Mac or if you have an external camera this is where you would select that or you can turn it off camera disabled this is your display screen you can choose which screen to display or not to display a screen and then below that is your microphone you can use your built-in microphone in my case a MacBook Air microphone or your in in another case an external microphone you can select all those and when you're ready you hit record into script it'll prompt you for a transcription language this is the exact same box we had when we first transcribed our file and then you'd hit record to go ahead and start it and after that you'll get one more final prompt which is It'll ask you to select a portion of your screen in a screen capture that you want it to capture or you can hit space bar and it'll capture your entire screen if that's something you want to do and then you have recorder settings you can have it do a countdown where it'll on your screen there will appear a number three 2 1 recording so if that's useful to you you can toggle that on you can set your transcription language you can choose the resolution that you want to record at most webcams built into computers are 1080p if you have more than that you're welcome to go up to 4K Etc and I should mention I haven't been mentioning this throughout the video but if you are on the free plan you're going to be more limited and this is one example where you're not going to be able to record above 1080p if you're on the free plan and you won't be able to export above 720p if you're on the free plan so be aware of that you can have it highlight clicks when recording you've been seeing this throughout the whole video you see my mouse how every time I click there's that blue animation around it that is what that is the Highlight clicks when recording confirm the recording area that is the option where it lets you select the part of the screen that you want it to record if you turn that off it'll automatically just record your whole screen minimize the recording dock that is I don't know if you can see it on this recording but I have the doc pulled up right now it's a little thing on the side that shows how long I've been recording right now it's 26 minutes and 10 seconds on this take and then there's a stop button and a pause button and then the last thing is to hide descript when when starting screen recording and this is as soon as you start the recording your descript application itself will minimize so I don't have that on because I'm showing descript so I wanted it to be visible so that is the recording best practices for recording are as follows make sure that you have enough space on your hard drive if you have 20 GB or less descript might cut your D your recording off prematurely and that's never fun so especially if you're going to be doing a long recording make sure to have plenty of hard drive space additionally make sure that you only record on one screen if you have dual monitors and you try to record across screens that's not going to work it's going to glitch out I've tried to do that before and lastly I recommend this is just a best practice with screen recording on descript is is to break your video up if you're going to do a long video like I'm anticipating this video I'm making right now is going to be 2 to three hours long I've broken it up into 30 minute recordings and that way I'm not an hour and a half into my recording and then something glitches out it could be on descript end or it could be on my computer and then I lose everything so I recommend just general best practice just break up your recording into 15 20 minute pieces that way if something happens you don't lose everything okay so that is the screen recorder recording best practices and all of that type of thing let's jump back to the transcript we've talked about it a couple times in different places but there's another thing I haven't shown you and that is your AI speaker this is a very a favorite a fan favorite of dript and the way that we do that is we're going to have to go back so so go to your dmenu at the top go back to projects and we're now back in our workspace go to AI speakers on the left and if you created a speaker before this is where you would see it if you have not created a speaker before there will be a button right here in the middle that says create a new speaker and if you have created a speaker whether or not you have there's a button here that says new speaker click on that and you can label it by default it's already got my name in there so add your name hit confirm and now you're going to have to train and authorize the speaker and the way that you do that is you have to read this script exactly as it is read it word for word you'll hit record start speaking it and then you'll hit stop that'll send the script to descript and that becomes the training data on which you train your voice I'm not going to go into that here I've made separate videos about it it's fairly well explained so this shouldn't be too difficult to figure out but you can set your microphone here and you'll just read this and the way it works is you're providing this data to the AI you're training your data you're training it on the intonation of your voice the pacing of your voice your pronunciation your accent Etc so I recommend do this in the environment that you're going to record in the most because it will match room tone so if you're recording in a room with a bit of an echo it's going and and you always record in that environment then keep it consistent record there and when you read this script best practice is to read it with a little bit of an exaggerated tone and range read at a normal Pace the pace that you want to make your AI voice but give it a little bit of an exaggerated tone so that it can learn the full range of your voice alternatively if you don't do the recording you can upload a file so if you have a client or a family member or just you're making a file for somebody else that is how you would do that you would have to have them record the file on their own computer or device and then send it to you to upload and train the AI in that way so you could just screenshot this and then send that to whoever is going to make the video or make the AI speaker okay so let's goe and close out of that after you submit the voice it happens very quickly it takes about 20 to 30 seconds for the training to be complete this used to take a full day by the way but with the recent upgrade it now only takes a few seconds so I'll go back to my projects and the most recent video I had opened was the correction I opened one in between while I was looking for it but it's a tutorial project so I'm going to go ahead and open that one up retrieving project and we're back inside of our tutorial composition so now that we're back in our project you can label all of the speakers in your project presumably it's just you or you know maybe whoever you're interviewing and descript will automatically try to label it now that it knows your voice if you remember way back at the beginning when I first added this project it prompted me who is this in this project and I just said Ross that's me and the the reason that we do this is with the AI speaker that we just changed we can add we can change the words of things so for example if you remember we were messing with this word it was originally Fifth and I changed it to fourth so if I select that word again I just click on it highlight it so that it's blue like this this menu pops up and you remember we had our correct the thing we're going to use now is replace so right to the left of correct is replace click on it we have this drop down there's a record option so I could just record over it I could do a fresh recording in my own voice using drips recorder or I can do overdub now overdub I'm going to go ahead and click on it and it says overdub this looks just like the correct box but we can type anything in here so I could use fourth it'll probably recognize that but just in case I'm going to explicitly spell out fourth f o uur t h and as soon as I click overdub it's going to change that audio using my AI voice let's go ahead and click on it and you can see it's now a light gray and it's pulsing and it says generating it's only one word so this should be pretty quick if you have like an entire paragraph or like a few minutes of audio is going to take longer but one word should just be a few seconds in the meantime I can click this the left side of this box and it'll restore it to what I had before and now it's done and you can see down here on the timeline it looks a little bit differently there's like a small cross fade let me zoom in command and scrolling in on my cross wheel it created cross Fades on both sides of it this is to just smooth it out because it's going to use our AI voice and there's also this thing that says convert to audio I'll explain that in a moment so I'm going to zoom out I'm just going to put my timeline my playhead right before that part that we overdubbed I'm going to hit space to play like the fourth month that I've done this so it sounded okay it's not great it's clearly not original but here's the other thing that happened notice it got rid of my video the layer of me speaking is gone so be aware of that when you overdub something it's it's only changing the audio it won't do anything for the video and in certain cases you might change the words and if your video is still there the audio is going to be out of sync with how your mouth is moving but what we can do is if I like this change then I can hit convert to audio if I don't like it I can put my mouse over it and hit the restore I can do play to preview it I can do regenerate which will uses AI to do something else I'll explain it in a moment or I can hit keep to keep that change so I'm going to go ahead and do that keep and now this is an audio file and now my video is back you see that so I brought my video so I was just in preview while I took the video out but once I lock in that change by hitting keep it brings my video back but now like the fourth month that I've done that and there's some weird stuff going on because of all these cross Fades so so the in this case my mouth would still be saying fifth but the words are saying fourth and it's not that big of a deal in this situation but you could see how an entire sentence if I made it something entirely different it would get out of sync with my voice which is something I don't want and in that case you could add Boll Boll is anything that's not your primary video and this brings up something else that we can do so I showed you how to add you know I added the the background layer but let's say there's a specific area we want to add Boll 2 without adding new scenes there's a way we can do it without adding new scenes so if I want to add cover up this sentence I can just select that sentence from the word that to the word mostly I just clicked and dragged and now what I can do is go to insert this the box that pops up I find the three dots I go to insert and I can add a scene I can add a marker I can add all sorts of different things here I'm going to go ahead and add something from files I'm going to go to videos and I'm going to type in nature and just give it a moment to load they're just light gray screens with kind of a gradient on it and until they load the projects it does take a moment and dript does seem to be a little slower than normal today usually this is pretty Snappy let's see if images are any faster okay much faster so let me just take this this looks nice nice little Forest path I'm going to click on it and remember I have just one sentence highlighted so when I click on it it's loading media letting me know that it's loading what it'll do is it'll add that photo to just the selected words I had without me having to create another scene and without the remember if I don't have a portion of the transcript selected the layer that I add will by default add to the entire scene that I added in but in this case it added it automatically added added a scene two so remember I had this was my previous scene scene two now it's scene 3 and this one now right here make my mouse big is scene two so I now have four scenes in total and this Forest background fills up the part that I had selected on my transcript now that we have more people and let me go back to the start of scene to clicking in my scene thumbnail and if I play it this is like the fourth month that I've done this just talk for an hour so it covers up the imperfection in the video where I overdubbed it okay very good now in the transcript this is just a personal preference but you can see where that slash is that's the start of the scene two I like to just to keep things clean I like to put the start of each scene on its own line so I just put the cursor before the scene slash and I hit return on my keyboard and it starts the scene it starts the line with the start of that scene so yeah now our scene two has that nice little Forest background our audio is uninterrupted behind it and what I'm going to talk about next is how to organize our transcript so we we're pretty good we're pretty comfortable with the layers we know how all that works works the next thing is and I hope you're doing this along with me so that you're learning you know it's one thing to watch me do it but it's another to actually do it yourself and get the feel for where things are and then you know I I said this at the beginning but go ahead and pause the video make the changes on your side as needed and if you have comments or questions as we go please drop those in the in the comments okay with that out of the way let's talk about adding markers so markers are a way that we can add organization and a quick way to sort through things in our project so if you let me just hit another return here in my transcript and now I have this blank line where it says start writing what I'm going to do is add a marker with a hotkey which is the hashtag or pound sign and so if you hit shift and the number three on your keyboard that's the pound key it adds a marker and you see it's highlighted in blue and I can type in marker oops let me highlight it again marker number one and now it's bold so it's it's separated from the normal transcript but it doesn't show up in my video it's not going to be a caption it's just purely for my own internal organization and it also showed up here on my scene markers on my scene thumbnail so let me go through and add a few other markers right here once again the pound sign marker number two and let me do Marker number three and so on you get the idea if you had a really long video you could have hundreds of markers you know you could you could break it up by theme or whatever else is going on so I can click on these now in my scene thumbnail I can say take me to marker number one marker number two the other thing that's happened is here in the top right of my transcript section there's a new button this was not here before until we added markers it says jump to marker if I click on it I can hit tutorial composition which is the name of my composition takes me to the very top or I can hit marker number two it Scrolls me down in my transcript to marker number two I could hit marker number three and so on so this is a way to break up your project into chapters and once you've set a marker you can easily move it by putting your mouse to the left of it clicking and simply oops I'm going to have to scroll down clicking and dragging it to a new position like so and now our marker has changed position now again these won't affect your captions the captions will not read marker number two the only thing that this does besides allowing us to quickly sort through things is when you publish it if you publish this directly to YouTube these can become your timestamps in your video so that's a handy way to use markers you can also sort through them you can find them in the search so you could type in here like I could type in marker and then it automatically found jump to marker number one jump two marker number two and if I clicked on it it takes me there so a lot of different options to get to the same place okay we're two hours in just a reminder I do have a course so if this is useful but maybe you want to go a little bit deeper the course is great for that it's six hours of lessons so each feature is more of a deep dive onto like how it works and how to apply it in best practices versus just a tutorial like this but if that's useful to you check the links in the description it's the descript Mastery course the next thing we're going to talk about is collaborating with teammates so we've seen our properties bar up here and then right to the left of that is comments so backing up even a Step Beyond that to the left of comments is who can see the project so there's me you can add your photo and you can name yourself within your descript account and then to the left of that is your drive name so this is me as the editor and then the drive name and it's saying that members of my drive can edit this now if I wanted to add somebody to this project there's this plus button called project access if I click on it I can add somebody and you might be familiar with this adding people to like for example a Google sheet or a Word document anything like that that you've collaborated on you can simply enter the email address of your teammates your editor your client whoever it might be enter their email address here and then you can choose if they are an editor meaning they can obviously edit the video they can make changes to it or if you only want them to comment if you only want them to comment then that's all they can do they can only look at it and leave comments and then once you type that in there you would just click invite to project and they would have the access to be able to see it down here in the bottom left there is more further options where you can set anyone with the link to this project can comment on it or you can say anyone with the link can view it or the most restrictive is only people with project access can access it project access required so those are your choices and then once you have the one you want let's say anyone with the link can comment I can just hit copy link and that is what I would send to some somebody who I want to be able to comment on this project so you can either invite them through email or by sending them a link both options work so once somebody has received your invite to see your project to access your project they will then be able to comment on it and they can comment on it like let me show you how inside of the transcript they would select a section so let's say right here I just select this sentence and I get this familiar bar we've seen it a few times at this point there is the comment bubble the same one that we have in the top right you simply click on that and it highlights it in this orange color and then over here on the right it tells me that that comment starts at 1 minute and 45 seconds into my project and then there's a blinking cursor where I can add a comment I can say can you please remove this section maybe there's a line that I don't want in there and I could just communicate that to the editing team like so and I can hit send and now that comment has been saved and the editor on their side would be able to see this they can click on the comment so when they put their Mouse on it they click it the comment section pops up again on the right and then they can add a comment and they can say you know ask a question about it did you want the whole thing removed or just the section you know whatever related to the video they hit end or hit send and it's now been uploaded and so there it is it it starts this little thread of conversation about the section in question and now if let's say I address the comment everything's good everyone un satisfied there's this little check mark in the top right that says resolve and if I click on it the comment's gone and it says comment archived I can undo it or I can just close that notification and get it out of the way so it's only going to show comments here that are active if a comment has been archived AKA it's been marked resolved I can hit these effect sliders these little dials here and I can go to show archived comments and now there it is once again and if I want to bring it back like maybe I'm not satisfied with the edit or I changed my mind I can unresolve it by clicking that button and once again it's back so let me just bring that up again and if there was a bunch of comments here I could sort by timestamp so I could this would put it in the order of the video chronological order I could put it sort by oldest which would do the oldest comment sort by newest which which would put the newest comment first or I can just close out of that all together okay so that's how you collaborate with a teammate pretty pretty convenient now the next thing I haven't talked about as much in the UI is navigating the video itself so if you hit this back button that is this goes between markers so now that we have markers I forgot this is one more use for markers is this will skip between markers so previous next Etc and if there's no more markers remaining it'll jump to the end of the video or in the case of reversing it'll jump to the beginning of the video so you can just click those to scroll forward and backwards through your markers between those obviously is the play button this is like the fourth month that I've done this and if you click it again when it's playing it'll pause it the number on the left here in the dark in the in the black is is where the playhead is this blue line right here that tells you the exact second and frame that the video is at it's at 10 seconds on the first frame and out of the total length of the video the total video is 10 minutes and 17 seconds so it's letting me know that right to the right of those is your playback speed by default it's at 1X it's going to play at normal speed you can also slow it down you can play it in slow motion at half speed just talk for an hour about so if you're really examining something you want to see how something looks to you know if it's too fast to to see it in normal speed you can slow it down play it slower and really make sure it's all perfect moving beyond that you can play it faster if you're if you're comfortable with how everything looks you're just giving it um one last look over before you send it live the 2x could be used can and about and that plays it really fast and you can go all the way up to 3x speed and you can just toggle it you can decrease speed increase speed with these hotkeys J1 or uh shift J to decrease speed increase speed with shift l or reset the speed with shift K that'll put it back to 1x I'm going to go ahead and do that and it says playback speed change to one in this little toast right there so that is a playback speed just can make things a little bit faster as you're going through one very important thing I haven't oh on that note one last thing your arrows so if you do your left and right arrows I'm going to press the left arrow on my keyboard right now left left left left left left left left if you see my video it's slowly moving one frame at a time so that's really good for precision work if you're making really precise you know the point where you want it to transition or the exact moment you want Boll to start you can use the right Keys now I'm pressing the right right right right right right and you see my my playhead is moving as I'm pressing right quickly right right right right and it's also moving here and so you can make a really precise cut on the exact frame where you want to make a particular edit so another important thing is on the same plane there right all the way to the right on the right corner of your timeline are your timeline tools we have five timeline tools and this entire video I have been in select mode select mode is the default that is your cursor that we've seen throughout this whole video so far and you get to the select tool by either pressing right there or it's the leftmost tool and if you haven't changed it it's going to be in select mode or you press the letter A on your keyboard and you're in select mode select mode is what we have used to move layers around to change the position of things on the timeline and everything else that we've done so far one other really cool thing that the select tool can do is let me find for example right here on the timeline you see this Gap where there's no words before the word and I can simply click on the word and it s again this is with the select tool and I can drag it to the left and it shortens that Gap alternatively I can drag to the right and it creates a gap clip you see that little asterisk in the top left that tells me that there's no sound there it's just a gap clip it's a Frozen image of that frame where I started that Gap clip but let's click on the word and again and let's drag it to tighten up that gap or I could go to the word before it the word on and I can drag it over the word and and the word and is now gone now I mentioned earlier that descript is non-destructive so even though that word and is gone it's gone from my transcript it's gone from my timeline it's gone from my video I can bring it back by putting my cursor again in the select tool right where I got rid of that word and you notice my mouse turns into this bracket I can select that line and simply click and drag and that brings the word back or I can do the opposite I can click and drag and that word is now gone and notice my bracket is open to the left if I move my excuse me it's open to the right if I move my mouse slightly to the other side of that boundary to where I'm in the previous scene now the bracket is open to the left and if I click and drag to the right it'll expand it in that direction or if I drag to the left it'll get rid of it in that direction so that is a little bit more that you can do with the select tool beside that is the blade tool which is hotkey B on your keyboard I'm going to go ahead and select it and switch into it and now you see on our timeline we have something different you see that red like it looks like a razor blade my cursor is now a razor blade and wherever I click any layer that I click it's going to split it so right now this layer or this clip starts right where that basically everything that's in blue right now but let's say I wanted to make change something I can just click inside of this timeline and right where I clicked that clip is now split so I could then delete this small portion I I could using the bracket I could drag and make changes like we just learned about I could make a scene right where I just clipped I could do anything I want but that is the blade tool and it allows you to split clips into smaller ones next to that is the range tool it's going to be hotkey r on your keyboard or you can click it it's got two dots and connected by lines and the way we do what we can do with this is select a range in our timeline so if I click keep my mouse down left click and drag and release I've now selected this portion and I can do I could grab it and move it like look I just dragged it up and I made this a different layer I'm going to undo that command Z and now it's back I could just delete that portion I'm going to hit delete on my keyboard and it's gone on undo command z i could speed that up so let me go ahead and click and select that range again I'm going to open up my properties bar we got our properties bar here and right now that range is 2.3 seconds long that's the duration and it's at 1X but I could make this 2x I just typed in a two into the duration and now that part is going to play twice as fast I could copy it I could rightclick and I guess I can't right click I could hit command C to copy it or I could go into my edit and hit copy or cut if I cut it it's going to take it out and then I could paste it somewhere else into another project for example so all sorts of things that we can do with the range tool it's super useful or maybe I want to reposition something maybe I want to actually put this at the beginning of my script I just selected that as a range and I'm going to move it to the beginning of the scene rather and then if you see that purple line that's where it's going to get positioned I release and there it is I moved that small range to that portion of my video so all sorts of things you can do with the range tool next is the slip tool so right there to the right of the range tool is slip or letter Y on your keyboard that's the hotkey you can see the letter Y underneath the word slip and slip allows us to move a clip in place what I mean by that is notice when I put down in my timeline with my slip tool active I can see this thing above my cursor that says 45 48 that's telling me that this clip it's 3 seconds long and it's the 45 second to the 458 or correction the 45 to the 48 second part of that clip but what I can do without moving the boundaries of this without it's still a 3se second clip is I can click in there and change which 3 second portion gets played so I'm clicking and sliding to the right and it's basically dragging the portion of the clip that gets played so now I've slid to the right a few times it's going to play from the 38 second Mark to the 42 second Mark without changing the length of what's getting played it's still 3 seconds it's just changing what gets played so I can slide right I can slide left like so so super useful if something gets messed up and you just need to change what's getting played within a certain clip next to that is the hand tool it just looks like a little hand a little hand icon or you can press h on your keyboard go ahead and click it and I'm just going to reposition my window we are now in the hand tool if you see on the timeline there is a hand when I click it turns into a fist like it's grabbing something and if I click and slide to the right I'm moving through my project so the hand tool is navigational only this only moves through your project so if I click and and slide to the left the project slides to the left click and slide to the right the project slides to the right okay let's go ahead and go back to our select tool the select tool you're probably going to be in 90% of the time but these are useful for certain other uses all right so that is pretty much it for transcript timeline manipulation layer manipulation we've covered most of the most important stuff not too bad right we're at two and a half hours in the last thing to do is to publish and or export our video once we got everything looking perfect it's time to publish it and once again just a reminder I do tutoring on this so if there's something you would like to go deeper on or just uh pick my brain about YouTube or anything like that I offer tutoring packages where you can get a series of calls and I can help you learn all of this stuff in a lot more depth okay so to publish or export there is a publish button at the top right corner of our project click on that and you get this drop down and there's two things here export and publish export means that this file is going to get saved to your hard drive to your computer now within export you can export the video you can export audio you can export GIF timeline transcript or subtitles I'll talk about each of these the video is everything it's the audio it's the layers that we added and it's the video it's always going to be MP4 format you cannot change that it's just MP4 format there is inside of the export the first option you have here is markers this would be to to export the markers that we created everything that's inside of those markers you can export just the current scene which would be just our scene one here you can export current composition which would be the whole thing everything we've worked on you can do all compositions which if you remember we created two compositions so if we selected that it would export both compositions but we're just going to do current composition for our purposes the next thing you have is your resolution you can select at max resolution I made this video at 1080p so it does not allow me to go above that it defaults to the max but for the sake of time I'm just going to make this really small I'm going to do 480p you can do quality the quality relates to the quality of the audio it defaults to high but you can go medium or low I'm going to do low just to keep this smile fall this file small after that is audio you can do more audio settings like number of channels this this is more advanced and relates to if you have multiple mics or fancy mics you can set that stuff there you can toggle on whether to have metadata or not your metadata is things like the show title the episode title and a description as well as whether to include the markers as chapters I'm going to go ahead and close out of that but that is how you would turn all of that stuff on and when you're ready you just just simply hit export it asks you to save it to to make the name and then to choose where you want to save it and hit save and then you get this toast that says exporting video 0% currently it shouldn't take too long because it's a small file or I can hit cancel to go ahead and close that out or I can just dismiss that notification alog together with that x button and it's still going to be exporting in the background now if I don't want the video like let's say I made a podcast where there's a video portion for YouTube but there's also an audio portion that is going to become a podcast all on its own I can go to this audio tab once again there's export I can do all compositions or I can just do the current composition which is what I'm going to do I can do do a ACC audio which is a m4a I can do wve or I can do MP3 the differences between those are beyond the scope of this video but for most purposes MP3 is probably fine you can choose whether to have metadata once again or not and advanced audio settings and then when you're ready you hit export you can do a gif which is video without the audio so it's a smaller video file you can do that there if you want you can do timeline which is if you want to import your project into another software for example Pro Tools audition Final Cut Premier or Da Vinci so select the type of file that the format where you're going to import it to so XML I don't have a lot of experience with this but I assume that this is to it'll it'll retain the layers and all the different Transitions and things like that so that you can edit these edit your project in another software where maybe there's features that descript doesn't have or something else that you is useful in those other softwares for you now transcript this is to export just our transcript and I'm going to go ahead and show you this because this is really cool you can export it as an HTML as a markdown as a word doc as a txt and so on I'm going to do a word doc because that's probably the most common and then you can include how you want it to look so the word doc that gets created from your transcript do you want it to include the composition name if so toggle it on include the markers if so toggle it on include the ignored text this is another case where it's useful to have the ignored text so the the stricken out words will appear in your transcript if you want it to whether to include the speaker labels if you have multiple speakers then you could show them there and lastly is the time codes if you want it to have the time codes as it goes through the transcript you can add it there it defaults to 60 seconds but you can change it to anything you want and turn that on accordingly I'm going to go ahead and Export that you can title it it's going to default to the name of the composition do docx and I'm going to save it and it's pretty much instant I'm going to hit that open button and I'm just going to open it in my word processor one moment here while that opens and here it is so you can see in like a big big header it put my composition name there are my markers marker number two along with a timestamp and you can see this is my transcript this is exactly what came over from descript if IID added highlights or anything else those would all appear here in my transcript as well and the last thing is subtitles you have SRT or vtt these would once again take the transcript with the addition of their timing in sync with their time and then you could add that file to YouTube to give it super accurate transcripts versus YouTube does automatic AI ones that aren't quite as accurate so that is how those are all of your export functionalities moving on the other thing we can do besides export is publish publish is what allows us to push this video to YouTube or other podcast places or even descript Cloud by default it puts it to a web link which is drips cloud and let me go ahead and demo that so I have it set to web link and you get a chance to name it you can set a the frame that it uploads as this would be like think of this as your thumbnail so let me change the frame you can scroll through right here and for some reason my preview isn't loading it's finalizing video for playback but you would just click once you find the frame that you want to use as your thumbnail you'd hit use frame or you can upload your own right here click upload browse to your computer find the thumbnail you want to use and then hit use frame and it's not it hasn't loaded so it's not going to let me do that but so you set your web link this is descript web link it's going to create a URL for this video you set your resolution again defaults to Max but you can make it lower or higher access you can make it public meaning it can be found by a search engine or you can make it where only people with the link or only people in your project can access it and you have further settings whether or not it shows the transcript allow comments all that kind of good stuff I'm going to hit publish it takes just a moment and in a second we'll get a check mark to let us know it's done once it does that we're going to have a link where we can find this on the internet and there it is it's done so you can download it right here which is the same as exporting it'll just download it to your computer there is a link if you click on that and copy it it's now in my clipboard where I could copy and paste that and send it around to a friend or a editor or anything else and then that last button the one I just clicked it's a little globe with an arrow that is what will open it up in my browser which looks like this so this is my video on drips page this is my streamed video it tells me the date that it was last updated December 4th that's today my name the name of it the name of the drive descript Mastery up here and if you're not on the Pro Plan then if you're on the free plan it's just going to be descript logo in the top because that's a premium feature you have to pay for The Branding and is rendering so it's not quite ready yet if I try to play it it's not going to let me but you can see the first frame you can see that it's 10 minutes 13 seconds long and this should look pretty familiar you can you know change the audio you can change the playback you can turn on or off closed captions you can make it full screen or not full screen and then here's our transcript and that's going to play alongside our video you can search this is pretty cool if I search for like marker number three it's not going to let me search for markers but I could search for things inside of my transcript the part where I talk about the course there it is every time every instance of the course is right here I could click on one and go to it which by the way quick plug I do have a course where I go in depth more in depth than these tutorials and uh you can learn a lot more about descript through my course Link in the description you can also leave comments here if if you left comments inside of the descript you can select a portion and say please remove this or whatever you want your comment to be hit send oh and I'm not logged in on the browser so I'm not able to leave a comment you do in fact have to be logged in so you know who the comment's coming from but it works the same as what we saw inside of the app and there's an option here's the link where you could this is the copy and embed if you wanted to add that to your website here is just the link if you wanted to send that to somebody you could have it start at a specific timestamp so that's pretty cool and and lastly is your sign in in the top right or sign up if you don't have an account yet so that is drips player descript web player enough about that I'm going to go ahead and close out and Beyond the web link that I just showed you is YouTube if you want to publish to YouTube which is something I always do I always publish straight to Youtube you hit sign in and I'm I'm not going to go into all of this because it will open up my Google login page which I don't want to show right now I've done other videos about this in the past but you'd hit sign in you choose the channel that you want to upload it to maybe you only have one channel maybe you have multiple select the channel where you want your video to go and then oh sorry before that even you can set your thumbnail as we did before this will become your YouTube thumbnail you can set your description the title and now here is what I was talking about the markers that we made marker number one at 8 seconds this will become our Tim stamp on our YouTube video this will become our chapter where we can easily navigate through the videos using the markers that we made so pretty pretty cool capability there and then you can set your category you can set your tags it it defaults to descript I I might have set that I don't remember but you can set your tags there and then you can set your access whether this becomes a public video private or unlisted I recommend start off with private or unlisted that way you have a chance to review it before it goes live and then you can always change it inside of your YouTube Studio to make it public where anyone can watch it okay so once you got all that set you'll hit sign in it'll take you to the Google sign-in page you'll select the channel that you want to publish it to and then it'll bring you back to descript and this button will change to say publish and you'll have to hit it one more time and then it'll give you a little loading bar telling you that it's it's publishing and it'll take a few minutes and so just let it let it do its thing and it'll publish in the background and then you can go into your YouTube studio and fine-tune any of the settings if you want to change the title anything like that you can do that inside of YouTube below YouTube is everything else blueberry buzzsprout restream podcast.co all these different features that you can direct ly published to these are all podcast hosts or in the case of headliner this is a podcast like a basically a real Creator where it can create like an audiogram for you and so you just click on one of those when you hit publish it would take you to their page you would do the signin and then you'd hit publish and you can go directly to their platform okay two and a half hours later we are at the end of this video I hope you found it useful if you need to go over anything repetition is the mother of learning so go back review a particular feature or skill do it again do it on your own project and if it's still not making sense or you're still not it's still not clicking once again you can leave that in the comments as a question or book some time with me let's get on a call and I will walk you through it in real time and we can go as deep as you want this was like 80% of what you need to know to get started with d script if if you want to go even deeper I'll say it for the fifth time I have a course as well where you can find all of this in a lot more detail and you can really get become a professional really become a professional maybe you want to build the second income as an editor or start a podcast that you want to monetize whatever it is descript is the best way to do it and my training programs are the best way to get you up to speed okay that's it thanks for watching if you made it this far you're awesome bye