Descript Crash Course For Beginners (2024 Tutorial)

In this tutorial, you'll learn all the basics like adding media, recording yourself, cutting clips, and using layers and scenes.

00:00 September 2024 Descript Tutorial
00:05 Opening Descript & Intro to the Drive View
00:44 My Version of Descript - A Note on this Tutorial
01:35 Editing View Familiarization
03:34 What to Practice in this Tutorial
04:19 Using Descript's Recorder
04:36 How to Use the Recorder
06:18 Importing Video into Descript
08:10 Editing Audio
09:05 Recommended way to record Youtube videos
09:25 Making cuts to your video
10:19 Editing Audio + Applying Studio Sound
12:03 The Editing Process
13:16 Adjusting Volume
16:53 Setting Aspect Ratio
17:24 Changing the Size and Position of your video
20:52 Size & Position Properties
22:42 AI Features
24:01 Deleting vs ignoring words
25:20 Remove Filler Word
26:09 Remove Retakes
26:33 Shorten Word Gaps
27:34 Add Chapter
29:09 Adding Music and Sound Effects
31:46 Descript Status Page
35:13 Adding Videos, GIFs, and Images
37:47 Adding Captions
40:38 Adding Text, Shapes, and Annotations
45:22 Layers
47:15 Scenes
48:55 Publishing and Exporting
53:35 Next Steps & Further Learning

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I have watched EVERY video (including your prior ones), and have still had problems, especially with blade, range, and slip, but I think yours is by far the best. You. are through, speak well, and have good visuals. BRAVO!!

[vacationrentalformula]

Completely awesome video. Thank you so much. Your teaching style is excellent and I have gone on to purchase the course and book a 90 minute session with you.

[georgeaveling]

Thanks Ross. I really appreciate the clarity of your instructions. Great job!

[simonesteyn]

This was a brilliant tutorial. You are such a great teacher. I was overwhelmed when I first got my Descript subscription until I found you on YouTube and an hour later, I felt a lot more confident. Today I need to figure out the Chroma Key so that I can insert a background. Thank you Ross.

[SPX-Trading]

Great video Ross - as you may recall, I have done some 1-1 sessions with you in the past as well and love to follow your new videos. 1 question I have had that I have need addressed is that if I always record for the same purposes/use and want to always to the same things with a newly recorded video - is there any sort of a "Default Settings" that could be applied? For example, I always want 1440 resolution, I always remove filler words, I always to audio enhancement, but right now I need to select each of these items one a time on every new video I do - so I thought would see if you had any thoughts on this.

[kinshukjain]

Hello, lovely video. What camera gear are you using?