Three hidden Descript features that speed up video creation: add on-screen annotations to guide viewers, generate images from text prompts using built-in AI, and a money-saving stock media trick. Step-by-step walkthroughs show how to use each one.
Imagine your smartphone only being able to make calls. You'd be missing out on photos, payments, and, of course, endless Puppy videos. Descript is like your smartphone. It's an all in one tool. But if you only know about a fraction of its features, you're missing the full power of what it's capable of. In this video, I'll walk you through three powerful descript tools that will save you time and help you make better videos. I'll start by showing you how to add annotations to your videos. Then we'll look at how to use AI to generate stunning photos. And make sure to stick around for the last tip, because it might save you hundreds of dollars per year on stock media subscriptions. Your ability to have an impact on your viewer is directly related to your ability to clearly communicate your idea. And I'm not talking about the words you use or even how you present them. Think back to when you were in school. We all had that teacher whose board looked like this. My guess is you look like this. On the other hand, we had that teacher whose board looked like this. For those classes, you probably looked like this. When it comes to your videos, you want to be the second teacher. You want your videos to have visual elements that will guide the viewer's attention to what you're teaching. You want to make it easy for them to see and understand what. What's important on their screen. Left arrow to return to the beginning of my scene. You can see it's gone because that animation hasn't started yet at that particular keyframe. But as soon as I hit play, there it is. And so that draws the viewer's attention. If I'm saying that in my video, you can use descript to make amazing videos quickly and easily. I can have that underline play right as I'm saying it, and it'll draw the viewer's attention there and make it that much more effective. As another example, let's say you're making a software tutorial like I am right now. You've probably seen me using those curved arrows. Well, I'm going to show you how to do that. We're going to go back to elements. Scroll down again in the annotation section. And this is the arrow I've been using right here. So click on that element applied. And as before, we can't see it because it's on the very first frame of our video. But as soon as we hit play, it's going to look like this. And there we go. And now you can use that. If you say Click on that button and your viewer is not going to know what button you're talking about unless you give some sort of visual representation. So now you can say click on that button and then you have that arrow play and it looks like that. If you're an artist, look out, the robots are coming for your job. This next trick is like having your own photographer or graphic designer on staff. All you have to do is give it an instruction in plain English, but of what kind of image you want it to create. And it'll do it. And it won't just give you one, it'll give you four options to choose from and you can then pick one to put into your video. Here's how it works inside of your project. Come to this thing in the top right that says underlord. Click on that. And these are all grayed out because I have just a blank project. But you might see all these have stuff in them. Otherwise come down to this one that says generate an image. And here is where you can describe your image. And there's the the prompt that I used in my example at the beginning of this section. I typed in robot wearing a beret painting an image. Let's try something else. I have a husky. So I'm going to say husky sitting on a throne, wearing a crown and silky cape. And you can also give it detailed instructions like make it photorealistic, make it hand drawn, make it 3D, make it futuristic. So I'm going to say make it cute and anime style. And then I'm going to hit submit under Lord is thinking this could take a couple minutes. And there are my four images. So I can just pick my favorite one. Or if I don't like any of them, I can hit that little recycle looking button, the little circular arrows and that'll generate another variation. But if I like it, I can just click on it. I like this one right here. And there it is. That image is now inside of my project. And from here I can move it around. I could it reset.
