Descript Tutorial for Beginners (January 2024 Tutorial)

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Every month we do a Descript tutorial. This one is a 20 minute workflow showing you how to create your first project, start the screen recorder, then edit your video, all the way through to publishing it.
Links to the course and previous tutorials:
💻 Descript Mastery Course: www.descriptmastery.com/cours...
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00:01 Introduction to Descript
00:05 Understanding the Descript Workspace
00:12 Starting a New Project
01:53 Recording and Transcribing
07:08 Editing and Refining Your Video
07:52 Adding Effects and Transitions
16:19 Working with Media Bin and Sound Effects
18:33 Publishing Your Project

[@DescriptMastery]

Here are the previous Descript tutorials: kzbin.info/aero/PLEVz4GQBK0WROS_w73UMOLfXHDcegFD3v

[@jilldaltonnyc7545]

I just signed up to descript and need to learn how to use that sucker. It looks like there are lots of useful shortcuts. Thanks for the video. I subscribed, and I watch more.

[@DescriptMastery]

Excellent! Welcome to Descript and to the channel. Feel free to drop any questions in the comments and I’ll help you there :) Descript has changed since I made this video so you may like my most recent tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHOme2asrL6bqrs

[@jilldaltonnyc7545]

@@DescriptMastery Thanks so much, Ross.

[@joybenoit566]

Probably a good idea to check out your 2hr tutorial. I'm new to Descript and not at all tech savvy. Editing and moving things around has been incredibly frustrating and strangely when I mimic things that I've learned from other tutorials it doesn't work or messes up other things. I "Undo" a LOT. Editing is my least favorite thing and I was REALLY hoping Descript was going to relieve the stress. Just impatient with learning the platform. Thank you for the help.

[@DescriptMastery]

My pleasure! My original motto was "Descript is amazing, but frustrating. We fix that" so I totally get it! I also do one-on-one tutoring if the tutorials aren't cutting it

[@PopRoxxRadio]

yes like every descprit video tutorial is made by folks from a place of knowing where it is assumed the viewer knows certain things. I would love to find one where it is assumed that the viewer knows nothing! I am on hour 3 of trying to figure how to do a split screen. Descipt seems more difficult than brain surgery or photoshop

[@DescriptMastery]

@@PopRoxxRadio I hear you! I just released almost the entirety of my old course if you want to check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3TdmpmFmayaic0 Are you talking about split screen for a reaction video or similar? You'll want to check out the part of the course on layers

[@GeekPsychology]

Learned some new things to make editing more efficient. Thank you.

[@DescriptMastery]

Happy to help!

[@benhaywood8175]

Very helpful thank you mate.

[@DescriptMastery]

Glad it helped!

[@TylerTheDrake]

This is great Ross, thank you!!

[@DescriptMastery]

Thanks for watching!

[@EricGranata]

I’m convinced millennial pause is caused by the trauma we’ve had recording only to find the first few seconds is lopped off due to buffering or something.

[@DescriptMastery]

Haha only explanation I’ve ever heard so I’ll buy it!

[@doreenyong1483]

Great tutorial, though I was hoping you'd talk about subtitles and how to unhide the timeline when hidden. I haven't quite mastered these features. Do you have any video on those?

[@DescriptMastery]

My most watched video is a 2.5 tutorial where i go much deeper into just about everything. I also recently did this livestream where I went deep on titles and captions: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4TZhYOIhcqSo5o Concerning unhiding timeline, its the button in the bottom left of the editing window. Is that what youre looking for or something more?

[@doreenyong1483]

@@DescriptMastery The timeline area just went blank after I tried to hide the timeline for a bit. There was no button anywhere to unhide,guess I'll try again. But thank you for your response. I'll watch your Livestream video to understand more.

[@DescriptMastery]

@@doreenyong1483 That sounds like a bug. The timeline should only have two properties: open and closed which you can toggle between with the icon in the bottom left (that says “show timeline”). Unless I’m misunderstanding, it sounds like something weird might be happening!

[@doreenyong1483]

@@DescriptMastery You're absolutely right, because it just worked now. I hope I find the captions just as easy. Thank you.

[@DescriptMastery]

@@doreenyong1483 Glad to hear it! 😊

[@sorjames-itsachoice]

Awsm work 😅 great flow ! Thanx Alot 🎉

[@DescriptMastery]

Thank you so much 😀

[@marywright4385]

Can you show us how you put in your metadata please?

[@DescriptMastery]

Are you asking about the metadata when exporting a project? I don't usually do anything with that. I usually publish directly to KZbin for most things, and you can't change the metadata in that case. But what do you want to do with the metadata? If you let me know a bit about what you're using it for, I could make a video on this topic :)

[@thepianocornertpc]

Can you explain how to record in English but have dutch subtitles please.

[@DescriptMastery]

Actually this just got added with the new version. I’ll need to play around with it a bit then can make a new video showing it.

[@thepianocornertpc]

@@DescriptMastery Thank you.

[@thepianocornertpc]

Can I connect a GoPro 9 to descript and use it to record? If so, please explain how to do.

[@DescriptMastery]

I can't speak from experience as I don't have a GoPro. But, I did a quick search and it appears it's possible. You'll need to connect it to you computer via USB then after hitting the record button, you need to choose the GoPro as your webcam. Hope this helps!