What is your experience using Descript for editing your podcasts?

Life changing for me but I am not a tech pro and it’s the only one I have used, so I am not the best to ask. I am still trying to figure out the new update called story board. I spent lots of time at their booth at the conference learning from them and there is so much I still need to learn. It definitely has made my editing process so much easier. My videos can look choppy when I cut things but it makes the flow better and nobody has complained. I have learned to be careful not to automatically cut all of the filler words out (uh, umm) because sometimes it’s actually a needed mistranslated word like “I.”

Just make sure you double check names after if you're using it for show notes or transcripts. I was on a panel that became a podcast episode after. I know the host uses Descript for show notes and transcripts. Over half of the panel guests had their names spelled wrong.

It is really great when you know the Tip’s and tricks. It makes mistakes, some of them big by cutting off end of words. It is truly saving much time, but doesn’t replace manual editing 😇 I used descript for two years. My sound engineer is much better though! 😊 Nothing above humans. No matter how good AI is. I vote for humans! 😇

I use it for rough cuts in a professional capacity, but it needs to go through a proper audio editor for production afterwards. The automatic filler word removal works 90% of the time, but sometimes screws it up badly, so listen to all the edits and fix it when it breaks. It's also very glitchy and the constant mandatory updates are annoying. That said, overall it's an awesome tool for most podcasters and I'd thoroughly recommend it.

I imagine it's very useful for scripted, written presentations. Our is a looser, informal chat, but it still saves me time. We've started saying "Eggplant" when we realize as we record that a section needs cleanup, as a marker to search for later in Descript. That's way handy--I used to have to take careful notes as we recorded, and then scrub back and forth in the audio searching for where that thing happened... And editing it in words is usually faster than in audio, although when I don't like the result Descript produces, it's hard to make it do better. Cutting out the pre- and post-chat is way easy too. Overall I like it.

It should make things faster, but it actually takes longer. You have to upload all the material from your drive to the cloud, which if it's 4k video and you have a low upload speed it can take a LOT (if it remembers your login information and there is not an update, otherwise you have to fight with that first) wait for it to transcribe it (again more time), manually correct all the wrong uhms removal (if you use their automation, which is harmful in so many ways), deal with their clunky multitrack etc.. Also it's a big waste of time as it still doesn't support third party audio plugins, so for serious audio clean up you have to use another DAW anyway to run those, which again, adds another step and more time. So it's a colorful user friendly software for beginners that don't wanna do much with either audio or video. I personally only use it now for captioning highlight clips, that's it. For serious color correction, editing straight from SSD drive, advanced encoding settings, multitrack editing, graphics, multi clip export to render queue, hardware acceleration for rendering, running third party audio plugins etc.. I use Da Vinci Resolve. It is more powerful, and....free.

Completely different work method and datapoints. I DO like the new "Storyboard" aspect is where the game can really change - IF - you're willing to up-end all that you know and work with in those new/alien boundaries.

I've just started using it. It's so different from what I'm used to I find it has a bit of a learning curve but can see it's power and how it can help reduce the time to release. I've done some searching but if anyone has any links to videos of podcasters using this I'd like to understand settings and workflow better. Real world examples would help a lot. I can't seem to get the sound levels right, for example.

Really, really poor, but better than not I guess. Transcripts barely work, I've never got a usable one. Studio sound causes as many issues as it solves some times. Bugs, issues, feature changes. Filler removal doesn't work very well, gap removal doesn't work very well. The second a better option comes around Descript will die.

It's an extremely handy tool when it comes to editing out filler words, adding captions, but for sound editing, it's kind of like using a hatchet when you need a razor blade. One irritating thing is in classic, you can't crop video, but this might be available in the new Storyboard editor, which they are switching to eventually.