Recording with Descript

A built-in editor. When you record in Descript, you’re recording directly into an editing tool—one that makes editing video as easy as editing text. So you can quickly edit out any parts of the video just by highlighting those parts in the transcript and tapping backspace. You can even remove your “ums,” “uhs,” and other filler words in a click, and add images, music, or any other media you need to make your screen recording more interesting. Want to slap on a branded layout as well? Go ahead; it’ll take all of about 15 seconds.

You sure can. Just click the Descript logo in the bottom of your screen on Windows, or the top menu bar on a Mac; it will open up Descript’s quick recorder. You’ll be able to get things set—choose your camera and mic, position your camera window, set up the screen you want to record, make sure you don’t have anything in your teeth—and start recording right away. Then you can use Descript’s intuitive, text-based editing and strange, powerful AI tools to quickly edit your video before sharing it (which is also easy, and hosted, in Descript).

A local recorder gives you more reliable, higher quality audio and video files. When you record using traditional virtual meeting software, like Zoom, you get whatever audio and video is being sent over the internet from your participants to you, including any network glitches or lags that come with it. A local recorder, by contrast, records directly from each person’s computer and uploads that file to a central host. That means an audio recorder and video recorder that doesn’t glitch, lag, or reduce in quality.

No. Descript keeps a built-in screen recorder at your fingertips. Anytime you need to make a screen recording or record a video message, you can fire up the screen recorder and fire off a link to your video in no time. Better yet: Descript is a full-featured editing tool—and unless you’re a person who always says everything perfectly every time you open your mouth, you’ll want to edit your videos. Even better: editing in Descript is as easy as editing a doc; so when the camera’s rolling you can relax, do as many takes as you need to get it right, and know you’ll be able to cut it down to a tight explanation that makes you way more articulate than you are.

Definitely. You can record, edit, and publish a podcast in Descript. You can use Descript’s AI tools to do all sorts of tedious audio-production tasks—adding chapter markers, writing show notes, making all the obvious edits—in seconds. When you’re done, you can make social clips to promote your new episode. Descript was originally built for audio podcasts, and audio editing remains an essential strand in Descript’s DNA. Descript’s text-based audio editing changed the podcasting world, and today pretty much any great podcast you can think of uses Descript to create its episodes.