r/Descript

Got the creator package, no experience in editing and thought: gonna upload al my raw takes, send the exact script and let underlord edit it into a nice video. What happened:

- “321 action” is still in a lot of scenes
- not cut at the right moment (a lottt of the times)
- didn’t get the right order of the clips, even though I send the script in text too.
- no automatic fancy and easy fade ins en outs or transitions between clips. Doesn’t think for itself.
- no automatic dynamic zoom in / zoom out
- the ChatGPT mcp works terrible. Gonna check it out with Claude too. Don’t have high hopes to be honest.

And I made 2 videos of 45 seconds and 75 seconds. Creator package : 50% of my ai credits are already gone!! Tf? Descript is advertising that you can do 180 clips of a minute a month. But I’m done in 4 minutes editing, that’s just bs.

But the whole idea and attraction (for me) was that I could edit easy, like a noob, text based and without the hassle of really editing. So going to look for another service. Just wanted to share this information for people who are considering descript.

On pause.

I've been a massive fan of Descript and have edited hundreds of podcasts on the platform...but today I decided to pause for 2 months. The competition is becoming more capable and Descript is becoming less reliable. I feel a sense of guilt and loss...as I've loved working with the team but can't justify the expense of retaining this and other apps; when I only went to the other apps as Descript became less stable.

I've argued for ages about the quality of transcriptions, and formatting of those. All to no avail. The new credits sytem means that I'm watching my balance instead of my editing timeline.

Sorry u/gabe and team...but today as I tried to generate an avatar and was told there was an image error, and the voice stock of British male voices was so limited,...I had to pay for another platform to do the work; and I just can't justify having duplication in the tech stack.

I've paused for 60 days in the hope that by then Descript will be back to it's former glory.

ps. I think the issue is the promise of underlord has not been fulfilled; and it's application has overshadowed the great 'text to video' edit of the earlier versions.

This will save so much time and headache and gigabytes each week of downloading from Drive and re-uploading.

I recorded today a two-person podcast episode in Descript Rooms. This was my first attempt, following a test. Everything seemed fine until I was editing. The gain levels varied dramatically, so I used the Sequence Editor to auto-level. After processing, the composition's length doubled. It added a full copy of the episode end-to-end. I then opened the Sequence Editor, clicked “Edit” but closed it without making any changes. It added another full length version of the episode to the end. I then did a "New composition from file" and opened and shut the editor with no changes. Same result. No change after quitting and restarting the program.

Descript v2.20.0, macOS.

I was able to complete my edits but want to figure out if this is a me issue or a bug for my next episode. TIA