Never edit alone

• You can have Underlord delete captions
  • “Don’t show captions on my title scene.”
• When Underlord adds media, it’ll replace the existing media layer (if there is one)
  • “Try different stock media.”
  • “Replace all media placeholders with generated images of fruit.”
• Now Underlord can target any specific scene for adding a layer, instead of adding layers to the current scene
  • “Add one giphy sticker on each scene.”

• Have Underlord regenerate parts of your recording, so it sounds like you said the right thing the first time
  • “Can you replace all the times I said literally with figuratively?”
  • “Edit this down to 3 minutes—feel free to use Regenerate to make the language flow a bit smoother”
• Tell it to update background colors
  • “Make everything in this video - background, text, layers - adhere to my brand colors [attached photo]”
  • “Rotate the background color for every scene, using a different pastel color”
• It can reliably add captions to all your scenes without messing up your layouts
  • “Add captions to every scene in hot pink cursive”
• Have it apply video effects (including pixelate, film grain, shadow, chroma key)
  • “Add a shadow to all of the camera layers”
  • “Can you use video effects to make me look sort of spooky?”
  • “Pixelate the video to anonymize the interview subject”

• Use the agent to insert generated images into your video
  • “Can you generate images to make this story come to life? Do it in sort of a collage style.”
• Improvements to script annotations, including the highlight tool and chapters tool (which can now add, update, and delete chapters).
  • “Delete the first three chapters in this project”
  • “Update the blue highlights to only cover parts when I’m talking about my new book”
• Improvements to AI-powered visual editing (sadly background color updates still missing here)
  • “Update all of the text and layer properties to give it a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom vibe”
  • “Can you edit this to feel like a [insert Youtuber of your choice] video?”
• Improvements to using text-to-speech and user recorded context together, in the same project
  • “Can you insert an ad break for Descript into the script at about the 5 minute mark, at a natural break point? Feel free to improv on the copy, but be sure to mention that Descript sponsors the ‘cast.”
• Bug fixes for updating speakers, adding a text layer, and routing for export video
• Bug fixes when inserting scratch text or text-to-speech

• Improved stock media search
  • "Add stock video of a car chase”
• It can change layer properties, relative to the current properties
  • “Make the title bigger and a darker green!”
• Its ability to rewrite the script has improved
  • “Make the script punchier and more engaging”
• It’s better at replacing recorded text with text-to-speech
  • “Make my voiceover Ursula”
• It’s more reliable when adding and changing chapter markers
  • “Add chapters for the intro and wrap-up”
• Bug fixes when inserting scratch text or text-to-speech

• It can add and change an avatar
  • "Can you add an avatar of a man with short hair?”
• It can do more when editing layer properties, including fill color, background color, rounded corners, rotation, opacity, border width, and border color
  • “Make this rectangle #ffc3c7, with rounded corners, 50% opacity, and a purple border at 5px thickness.”
• Tell it to export your video when you’re done
  • “Export this file in 4k.”
• It can add a text layer, to one scene or many of them at once
  • “Add a text layer to every scene that says ‘DO NOT SHARE!’”
• It can blur background
  • “Blur the background of Samantha’s camera.”
• It can apply eye contact
  • “Apply eye contact.”
• It can apply green screen
  • “Apply green screen.”
• It can apply studio sound
  • “Apply studio sound.”

• Underlord can now select stock music and sound effects for you (but we haven’t optimized this yet)
  • "Can you use an upbeat ukelele song as background music?”
  • Put a “ping” sound effect at the beginning of scenes 9-15
• Underlord can now automatically resize text to fit the size of its text box
• Underlord makes better decisions about how to apply layouts, and is more responsive to your directions about which layouts to use

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the script text was not inserting into the composition, but instead was only populating in the chat box
  • Fixed an issue where adding TTS could mess up a recording in your script track
  • Fixed an issue where inserting stock b-roll was resulting in errors
  • Fixed an issue where artifacts of previous script generations were sticking around after editing
  • Fixed an issue where chat would sometimes reference context from a previous composition after the user changed compositions

Creating, editing, and translating your script

• Generate a script and edit it
  • [Wikipedia screenshot] "Can you write a script about this?”
• Edit a recording you gave it
  • “Edit this down to 2 minutes - focusing on when I talked about Freud”
  • “Remove filler words, long pauses, and retakes”
• Write in any language Descript supports
  • “Create a video about the Russo-Prussian war. Write it in German, please.”

Designing and directing your videos

• Add and change layouts
  • “Break this video into scenes and add layouts and stock media”
  • “Add camera layouts every time I reference our new dashboard feature”
  • “Add lower thirds whenever a new person starts speaking”
• Make the video more interesting
  • “Can you highlight areas that might benefit from b-roll?”
  • “Add stock video to scene three - preferably of a dude looking sad scrolling his phone”
  • “Add stock media to all of the media placeholders”
• Take your media and add it to scenes
  • [Attach photos from your trip to Dubai] “Can you add these to different scenes in this video?”
• Cover jump cuts with zoom shots
  • “Hide my jumpcuts by adding zooms”
• Edit text properties
  • “Make the title bigger, shorter, funnier, and use #22f015”
• Show and hide layers
  • “Only show the script layer when I'm talking”

Repurposing your stuff to make more videos

• Copy clips to new compositions
  • “Copy all of the parts where Laura is talking into a new composition”
  • “Highlight all the times my friend and I talk about our upcoming patent for the Sleep Snorkel?”
• Convert the aspect ratio
  • “Create version of this for Instagram feed, Youtube Shorts, and Youtube”