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Descript FAQs
Descript has the Free basic version available. Other pricing plans include $12 per editor per month for the Creator account, $24 per editor per month for the Pro account, and Enterprises can contact Descript for a custom pricing plan when there are 10+ user teams. Pricing plans vary according to the number of user teams and available features.
How do I use Descript?
Is Descript free?
Yes, there is a free version of Descript. Other pricing plans include $12 per editor per month for the Creator account, $24 per editor per month for the Pro account, and Enterprises can contact Descript for a custom pricing plan when there are 10+ user teams. Pricing plans vary according to number of user teams and available features.
What can Descript do?
Does Descript work for video?
Can you record directly into Descript?
Descript product overview
What is Descript?
Descript is a transcription management and video editing software that is designed for businesses in multiple industries, such as marketing, sales, user research, online learning, and customer support. It helps team members collaborate on projects, send feedback, create shared folders, add comments, and track document versions.
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Value for money
4.7
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Descript features
Functionality
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4.8
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- Likelihood to recommend9.43/10
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Stu R.
Podcast Editor
Media Production, self-employed
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Stu: Hi, my name's Stu. I'm a podcast producer. I would rate Descript five out of five. And for more...
Cameron S.
Business Development Strategist
Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees
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Cameron: My name is Cameron, and I'm a podcast editor. I give Descript a five out of five. For more reviews...
Alice K.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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I'm not a video editor by any means. In fact, I've been using all sorts of different software over the past few years and I just didn't find anything that was really easy to use -- until Descript. As somebody who is a heavy content creator, I needed to start creating video content and it was really hard because I had to rely on others to edit the videos for me. Now with Descript I can do it myself...
It takes a LONG time to download high-quality videos.
Aemyn C.
Online Media, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall, using Descript is a super positive experience. We're able to preview episode scripts with clients which makes the approval process a better experience for them. Our scriptwriters are able to work directly with the audio and transcript at the same time and when they're done, we can export the raw project for cleanup and sound design in an external DAW which is awesome forethought from Descript. With other projects, editing and sound design and exporting can be done entirely in Descript and I'm really happy with the results. Despite its limitations and bugs, I still struggle not to recommend Descript to anyone making a podcast. Whatever you're doing, there is a good chance you will find a place for it in your process, just maybe not as much or as reliably as you would like.
Descript is a strong collection of audio tools that just weren't available when I started making podcasts. The ability to organise, collaborate and publish an audio project in the cloud with a friendly interface is great and used to be a huge pain to figure out. Editing audio with the transcript and the waveform at the same time allows you to skip a bunch of technicalities and focus on your creativity. Video capabilities expand the possibilities, and the overall suite of tools make me rethink entirely what podcast editing can or should be in a good way.
Stability is the biggest problem I have with this. After working on about a lot of different projects with different collaborators, I'm still coming up against things that make it freeze, make it crash, or break a project (usually salvageable at least), and end up needing to work around issues to keep things rolling. Also, while Descript has a lot of features, in comparison to any long-standing audio...
Nathan C.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, self-employed
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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The concept is amazing and could save hours on a podcast edit… but, it just doesn't work correctly or as you would expect a lot of the time. Once the automated transcription improves and the workflow stabilizes, this could potentially replace the various tools I use to edit audio and video.
The ability to edit an interview or podcast just by editing the text is incredible. The workflow is fairly straight forward – import audio file, choose how to transcribe, wait…, edit the transcript & audio in various ways, export or publish as needed.
The automated transcription is good, but not great. There are always little errors that seem obvious to a human – capitalize the first letter in a sentence, don't capitalize a word in the middle of a sentence, abbreviate doctor as Dr. when a name follows, etc. – and they seem to always show up, even when they've been corrected previously, so it's unclear whether the 'machine' is actually 'learning'. The...
Bryan G.
Apparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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It's been great. We started a podcast with no background in audio production and were doing fine with Audacity, but Descript just changed what we felt we could do, and how much time it takes to do it. I've recommended it to many people already and I expect I'll recommend it to many more.
It's very easy to use as a novice. There are lots of functionality buried within that I know I'm not utilizing, but I don't need it to get my job done. I love the ability to edit the audio by editing text and adding music onto my podcast voice files is straightforward. This is by far the easiest editing tool I've tried.
There are lots of features that I know exist but that I don't see or that I don't know how or when I should use them. This is on me to learn, but I do wish tools would provide access to mini-tutorials from within the main workspace so that when you are working you could better identify whether that functionality you've never used might help to solve your problem.
Amelia G.
Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for 6-12 months
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The ability to edit the transcript and audio and visual simultaneously saves HOURS of time, and allows me to pull off large-scale projects on a tight timeline without working over hours. SO easy to integrate into accessibility initiatives with the .srt exports directly from the transcripts. The automatic removal of filler words and inclusion of multiple speaker tags are fantastic features.
This software utilizes the experience of using a word processor, and harnesses it to help make an editing process that is intuitive, easy, and efficient. This makes it a time saver for me, and I have been able to teach non-design and non-tech colleagues how to use it in order to share the production work across various projects with ease.
Initially, the transcript and audio functions worked excellently, while the video was still a but rough. Now, though, Descript has spent several months upgrading and updating their platform so that the video editing is much more seamless and more can be done through the platform to produce great videos. The overdub is clever and helpful, but requires quite a bit of honing to get high-quality results.
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