Complete Beginners Guide To Descript 2026 🔥

automatically transcribe your video, edit your video from that transcription like a Word document, and use AI to do the most tedious editing tasks for you, like removing filler words. This is Descript, and it's the best way to edit a video or podcast in 2026. And this video that you're watching right now is the best way to learn how to use Descript. So let's get into it. When you first log into Descript, this is the page you see. This is called your home view. And by the way, I am on a paid version of Descript. I pay for this product. So there's some features that I might show you, particularly AI features that you might not have access to if you're still on the free plan. But just to familiarize you with this view, over on the left side are different things we can do inside of Descript. So we're on the homepage, which I'll talk about in a moment. You have projects where all of your projects live in a list. You have Brand Studio where you can save certain fonts and colors and things like that, that you use a lot. AI speakers where you can train your AI voice to do text-to-speech layout packs, which are effectively templates. Workspace is another place to store and organize your projects. And then down here I have starred folders, which are different ways that I organize my projects, 'cause I have thousands of projects inside of Descript at this point. To familiarize you with the home view here, you can start from a text prompt. So you can upload, you can upload a file in here. Or you can talk to the AI and tell it what you want to make. As well as there's different starting points like edit a video, create an avatar, et cetera, and popular features that they want you to use. And then a list of your recent projects if you've made anything yet. But I'm going to start completely from scratch. So what we're going to do is come up to the top right corner where it says new project, click on that and click on video project. Click on that. And here I am inside of a blank new project. Now you can click on this button right here and you can browse through your computer to bring things in. You can bring things in from YouTube. You can even record directly into Descript. For the sake of this, I'm going to bring in two videos off of my computer. So I'm going to bring in this one and this one from a recent trip I took to Colombia. I'm going to drag them in. And I drop them in. And you can see my video is already popping in there and a bunch of stuff is starting to happen. It's going to upload these videos to Descript's cloud and it's going to transcribe these videos, which I'll show you in a moment when these are done. Okay, now my videos are transcribed. So over here on the left side, you can see that what I was saying in this video is now in text. What makes Descript unique is we can actually edit this video like a Word doc. So I could highlight text on here and I could just press delete and it'll be gone. So let me just demonstrate that. I can hit play right here. Okay. So that first word, okay, I can just highlight it because I don't need that. So I just highlighted in the transcript and notice down here, this is called the timeline. And if you're not seeing it, you got to put your mouse on this little up arrow right there and drag it up. And this is another way to see our video. So that word, okay, that I selected, you see how it's highlighted in purple down here. This is representing the part of the video that I'm currently manipulating. So if I hit delete and now it's gone from my video, and if I hit play again, okay, I got it. Bueno, it starts a lot quicker than it did before. So that is the first way to edit your videos. Just simply highlight the text and press delete. Now, a general note about good editing. With all things in editing, it's all about making a change, see if you like it. So back up a couple seconds, play it, see if you like the change you made, If you do, keep it. If you don't, then redo it until you get it right. But moving on, let's see how this looks. Okay, I got it. Bueno. Okay, very good. Now the other thing I can do is looking down on the timeline, again, you have to open up using this middle, this line here in the middle that says resize timeline, drag that up and you'll be able to see this. The words are transcribed down here as well. So where I say, okay, I got buñuelos. You can see those words written here, and then you can also see gaps. So where I'm not speaking, there's a 0.4-second gap between that word and the next word. And what I can do is I can grab words down here. So I can grab the word "there," I can click it, and I can slide it to the left, and you can see that number is decreasing, and that's going to get rid of that gap. Those, they're like these balls. And now I can make it move a little bit quicker. And notice my text, my words are these green sound waves, and the parts where it's just background noise is this light gray. And you can see these little spikes right there. That's some of the, the mic clicking a little bit. It's, it's background noises that I, I don't necessarily want. So I'm going to grab the word filled and I'm going to slide it to the left to get rid of that gray area. And you can also do that to delete words. So right here, if I want to get rid of the words "and like," I can grab the next word, which is "fried." I can click it and slide it to the left until those words are gone. And it's now gone from the transcript and it's been deleted from my video. Now in Descript, nothing is permanent. You can always restore, you can always undo. And one of the best ways to do that is to find this line down here. You see this gray line right here? That's where those words I just deleted are hidden. So I can put my mouse there and I get this bracket. When it— the bracket is open to the left, so the open part of the square bracket is open to the left, I'm affecting the clip on the left side. So if I click and I slide to the right, I'm restoring what I cut out. And conversely, I can trim it again. I can click and I can slide to the left and I'm deleting those words again. So no matter what cuts you make to the video in the timeline down here, the underlying source video, the raw video underlying this, is still there in the background. You just sort of, you can think of it as unveiling it or covering it up when you're trimming it or restoring like that. Now, another thing that's gonna relieve a lot of anxiety for you is up here in the top left corner, check out this button right here, the little back arrow, that is an undo button. And this will undo, if you click it once, it just said undo extend clip 'cause that was my immediate last action. And I can keep clicking that. I can click it unlimited amount of times to undo all of my previous actions. Now note, it's only my previous actions in this session. So if I close Descript and I come back later, then the undo button will be reset. It's only the changes that I've made in this section. On top of that, if I click on this dropdown right here and I come to file, version history. Over here on the right side is a log with timestamps of all the changes I've made to this video. So there's when I set up this video, November 21st at 1:44 PM, and I can click view and it says you're viewing an old version from 28, 28 minutes ago. To edit this project, return to the latest version. So I can click there to go back to the, the version I currently was working on. Or I can click restore and it's going to go back to how this project looked at that moment in time. So this is all to say nothing in Descript is permanent. You can always go back, you can always restore, and everything is getting saved as you go. You never have to click a save button. So right here in the top left corner, there's a little check mark. As long as that is checked and super light gray, but as long as it says synced, then all of your changes are being saved to Descript's cloud as you go. So the next thing we're going to do, now that you know how to make some basic cuts, is let's talk about properties. So if you click on a clip, so you select anywhere in your video, and then you come over to the right side to where it says properties, right here you have duration. So this is how fast the clip plays. So this clip that I have selected is 22 seconds long. And it's playing at normal speed, 1x speed. If I wanted to play faster, I could say 2x, for example, or I could say 1.5. I can go all the way up to 30x to play it faster. Or I could slow it down. I could play it in slow motion, and I could type 0.5, period 5. And now if I play it, mozzarella and it plays in slow motion, but I'm going to return it back to 1x. And then below the duration section, you have audio. So Descript, when you bring in your video, it's going to automatically set an audio level. So if it's really loud, it's going to make it a little bit quieter. And if your audio is really quiet, it's going to make it a little bit louder. It's going to automatically do that for you. But if you want to manually override it, this is where you would do that. So you can set in a different number there. So if I'll make it louder, I'll type in a number bigger than 79%, and there we go. You can also slide it using this black dot right here and sliding left and right. And if I want to mute it completely, I can click on the little speaker. And now that clip, again, my, when I say clip, I'm talking about just what is selected in purple. That part is going to be completely muted now that I've clicked on that. Below that you have opacity. 100% opacity means it's fully visible, but if I dial this down, you see my visual is starting to disappear. All the way to 0% opacity means there's going to be no visual at all. It's not showing at all. It's just the black background. And then size and position. If you remember back to high school algebra, you have your x and y coordinates on a graph. So if you change these numbers, that's gonna change where my video's located on the x-axis or the y-axis accordingly. In addition to typing in the numbers here, you can also grab the image on the editor. This is the easier way to do it and just drag it around. And just move it around. And later you can have layers, so you could have multiple videos showing at once and you could reposition them so that multiple videos fit into here at the same time. Below that you have W and H, that's width and height, and these are the size, the width in pixels. So for a standard 4K video, which this is, it has 3,840 pixels. If you don't know what you're doing with these, I would just leave those as they are for now. But once again, we can click on the video itself and let's say I don't need all this sky behind me, I just need to focus on myself. So what I can do is grab a corner and you see my mouse turns into this arrow and I can slide it like so. And that's making me fill more of the scene so I'm not getting as much sky in there. And then now my head's getting cut off a little bit, so I can drag it down. And there we go, that looks pretty good. I'm centered up. And in addition to grabbing the corners like I just did, you can grab the edges like so and just drag in and out. And you can do the same thing with the bottom and the top. And note my top is so far out of my screen that I can't even grab it right now. I'd have to move my whole image down just to be able to see the top and slide it like that. But let me put myself back in the middle. And also notice that red line that snapped in the middle. Descript will automatically snap your video so that it's centered. And so that's what's happening with that is I'm on the vertical center of my video. For the sake of time, I don't have time to go into every single possible feature because, well, I have a whole course for that, which you can check out in the description. But you could add borders, you can add different audio effects. And one really cool audio effect here, if you click on the plus button, is Studio Sound. So I was recording this video outside near a train station. It was loud. There was a lot of people, a lot of cars. And what Studio Sound will do is it'll take out your background noise to focus on your speaking, to make it sound like you're recording in a studio. So let me start over with that. Under audio effects, hit the plus button and then click Studio Sound, and that's going to apply it to your project. And then next to Studio Sound, there's only one thing you can do with it, which is you click on effect settings. And you can change the intensity. Now, the reason you might want to do that is 100% can be too intense. It can sound— make your voice sound robotic and flat. So what I often do is I'll dial this down to like 75, 80, somewhere in that range. And then again, my general editing advice is once you make a change, back up a couple of seconds, play it, see if you like it. And if you do, keep it. If you don't, keep adjusting. So with Studio Sound, if it sounds weird, if it sounds unnatural, keep adjusting this number until you find something that sounds really, really good. So let me go ahead and play that. Good. So I still have a subtle bit of background noise with like some birds chirping and stuff like that. So I like that. I'm going to keep that in. Next are visual effects. These are things like adding blurs, adding a film grain, making it pixelated, different things to sort of artistic touches for your video. Again, I'm not going to cover that here today for the sake of time, but you can check out my course if you want to go into those. Animations, these are how you can make it so that your video, for example, slides in or slides out or adding some sort of movement to your video so that it looks nice. That's a bit advan— more advanced. So check out my other videos on this channel if you want to go into that. So the next thing that's really amazing about Descript is the AI tools. So if you come up to AI tools on the right side here, these are all the different tools built in that can help you edit really, really fast compared to legacy editing softwares. Edit for clarity. I don't personally like this one because it tries to do too much. It's kind of like a jack of all trades, but master of none. So I'm gonna skip that one. Studio sound, I already showed you. This is just another way to apply it. The way we did it before was properties. This is just an alternative way to do it. With everything in Descript, there's multiple ways to do it. There's no right or wrong. It's just the one that makes more sense to you. Below that, remove filler words. So this is going to find all the ums and uhs and likes and you knows, and it's going to help me identify those. And if I want, I can remove them with the click of a button. So because I'm doing a taste test, I'm saying, um, a lot. That's the only filler word that it detected. But over here on the left side, you can see it said all filler words. It found 4 of them. And I can click on this and I can sort which filler words I want it to find. So as I said, it can find I guesses, I suppose, kind of. What I like to do is unselect all and only select ums and uhs, which it didn't find any of those, so I'm not able to demonstrate that, but some projects it'll find hundreds of ums and uhs, and you can remove them one at a time with the remove button, or you can click remove all and it's going to remove every single filler word in your project. Now, do note, it'll sound good, it'll remove the ums and uhs, but your video might be choppy. You might have what's called a jump cut where your head's in one position and then after the cut your head is in a different position and it can look jarring. So just be careful with this tool. It, it's very helpful, but it's not perfect. And if you come to AI tools again, there's this thing called remove retakes. This will help you identify parts where you repeated yourself or maybe went into a tangent or things like that, and it'll help you remove a lot of fluff from your video. Next is shorten gaps. If I click on that, If I come over here to the left side, I currently have it looking for gaps, that is moments where I'm not speaking, of 2 seconds or more. And I can change this number. I could say 4 seconds or more, and it found 9 of them, 9 instances where I'm not speaking for 4 seconds or more. Below that, I can shorten it. So I can shorten it to 1 second, for example. And I could just click, simply click on this shorten all button. And now all of those long pauses are gone from my video, but I'm gonna undo that. Let's go back to where we were. Below that, back to our AI tools, we have a look good category. So everything we just talked about was sound good. Below that is look good. You can have eye contact where it'll use AI to make it look like you're looking straight at the camera even when you're not. Green screen, which will remove your background for you even if you don't have an actual physical green screen. Automatic multicam is for podcasts where you have multiple cameras. Generating an image and a video, you can actually generate AI images and videos inside of Descript. It's included with your account if you're paying for it. And you can blur the background, so it'll identify you as the speaker or whoever the speaker is, and it'll blur everything that's not a human in the video. Beyond that, there's a repurpose section, so you can take your long video and you can have Descript identify clips. So if you got a 2-hour video and you wanted to find 10 short clips for TikTok and YouTube, then it can do that for you. Highlight reel will create one longer highlight reel out of your longer video. And translate, you can translate your entire video into 25 different languages. The publish section is all about the post-production. So you can have it come up with titles for you. You can have it draft show notes if it's a podcast, you can have it draft a YouTube description and so on using AI. And then the bottom stuff is all mostly for before you even start making your video. It's for writing a script, for brainstorming ideas, writing an outline, things like that. AI is a necessity in today's day and age. Highly recommend diving into those tools, but let's get back into the nuts and bolts of editing. Over here on the right side is a tab called Elements. Elements are things like text layers. So you can add text, subtitles, and titles, and they're different sizes. These are just different starting points. So for example, if I add the biggest one here, it added this title right in the middle and it's highlighted in blue. That's letting me know that it's editable so I can change it and say, type in there, my video. With it highlighted, I can also come into this menu that pops up over the words. I can change the font. I can change if it's bold, regular, light, et cetera. I can change the size. I can type in a number there. It's currently size 200, but I could make it 100, and now it's significantly smaller. I can change the color. It's currently white. and you can also make it left aligned, right aligned, center aligned, et cetera. And if we open up our timeline again, I want to point out down here, this is a layer. This is the text layer that we just added. So very important concept in video editing. Anything that you add to your video, if you add another image or a text layer or another video, it becomes a layer stacked on top of your main layer. The, the bottom layer down here is called the script layer. That's our base video. And then everything else is going to become a layer on top of that. So that's our first layer, is that text layer. And you can see it takes on the name that I gave it, my video. As with our primary video, if I click on this layer so it's selected in blue and I come over to properties I can change the properties of this currently selected element here. So I can change the size and position. I can change the font, the fill color, all that kind of stuff. And these properties will look different based on what I currently have selected. So because I have a text layer selected, these are the options I see. But if I switch to clicking on my video, then I see specific properties related to my video. Now, if we go back to the Elements tab, in addition to the text layers, you also have shapes. So you can add things like triangles, hollow triangles, filled-in triangles, arrows, lines, etc. You can add placeholders. These are objects that are basically blank, but they allow you to replace them with an image later. So maybe you don't have a certain video shot yet, you can drop in a placeholder to remind yourself that something needs to go in there, but you just don't have it ready yet. The rest of these get a little bit more complicated, so I'm not going to go into those in this video. But again, check out my course. I go into all of this. In captions, if I click on a captions layer here, let me just click on this top one. These are different starting points, but again, you can customize them however you want. Notice the words from my video are on my video. As I talk, the words pop up onto the screen in the style that I specified. And these words come off of the transcript. I didn't write those in. Those didn't take any effort on my part. It's just reading exactly what's here on the transcript. So where it says good crunch on the outside, it's reading it right here off of the transcript. If you need to correct the transcript, so for example, maybe there's some spelling wrong, like let's say instead of good, it's actually supposed to say bad. Well, I can highlight that word good, and in this menu that pops up, click correct, and then type in the correct word, and you can click correct, which will correct just this one instance. Or if I say correct all, it's going to find every single time the word good is in this project and replace it with the word bad. But I'm just going to replace this one. I'm going to click correct. And there it is. It's replaced there. And it's replaced in the captions. Now, do note that's not changing the audio. It's only changing the transcript, which therefore is changing the captions. If I did want to change the audio, there's a way to do that with AI. I can click on regenerate and then I can type in the word I want to change it to, and I can hit regenerate, but that's a lesson for another time as well. Next, there is this media tab and Descript includes a generous amount of stock media. So they have a giant library with thousands of stock videos. Giphy GIFs, images, backgrounds, et cetera. And these are all indexed. So for example, there's a search bar up here at the top. I could type in office and I get a bunch of different images of, in this case, The Office, or just stock photos of offices, stock videos. And you can use these in your projects. You're paying for them through Descript, so you can use them in your project, with some exceptions. I'm not a lawyer, so look into whether or not you can use these. By the way, Giphy GIFs have a different set of copyright considerations than the videos do, so just be aware of that. And you can find documentation on Descript's website. So those are visuals. If I want to find audio, I can switch tabs here to audio, and there's a music section. And because I still have office typed in, it's finding corporate songs, things that are indexed as office music. Below that is sound effects. So probably just background noise of offices, elevators, things like that that you might hear in an office. And to add one of these to your video, you can hit this plus button to add it. And now that sound effect has been added to my video and I can back up a few seconds and play it to listen to it to see if I like it. Good crunch on the outside. And it was too short to even hear it, but let me extend it a bit. And just like with our text layer that we added, we now have an audio layer, and notice it's green instead of gray like our captions layer. But I'm going to back up and let's see if we can hear it. Good crunch on the outside and nice and soft and doughy on the inside. So it's got some ambient office noise, phones ringing and printers running and stuff like that. So that is using stock media. The very bottom tab in the bottom right corner is Underlord. A bizarre name, I know, but this is all the AI tools. The internal joke that Descript has is that instead of your AI overlord, it's your AI underlord. And so you can ask it to edit stuff for you. Now I'm not going to spend any time on this because it's notoriously unreliable and it's very much in beta, as it says there. So personally, I recommend, you know, play around with it, have fun with it, but don't think that this is going to be editing your videos for you yet. 6 months from now, that advice might be different. Next, I'm going to tell you about just navigating the user interface. This dot right here is where in this video you are. So if I hover over it, it says 1:08. I'm a minute and 8 seconds into this entire video. I can click on it and I can scroll to a different part. And when I do that, this number is changing. So this thing that says 27.5 means my playhead, this gray line right here, this is the moment in time that we're seeing reflected right here in the video. So right now we're looking at 27.5 out of— everything to the right of this slash is the total video length— 2 minutes, 23 seconds, 0.7. So anywhere I click, that number's going to change, this is going to change, and the playhead's going to change. And of course my video is going to show whatever it looks like at that moment in time. This left arrow right here is going to jump you to the previous previous scene, or in this case, because I haven't made any scenes yet, it takes me to the very start of the project. I'll talk about scenes later. If I click right, that's gonna jump me forward one scene at a time. This button is markers, so you can add markers that break up your project and organize it into easy to navigate to sections. So if I click right here, and I type a pound sign, also known as an octothorpe, also known as a hashtag, and it's a Shift 3 on a US keyboard, then you get this blue thing with the bold words that say "marker," and I can type in there "mozzarella" because I was about to talk about mozzarella, and you can see it's bolder than the rest of the text of the transcript. So this does not show up in my video. It's purely navigational. And if I come down here, well, first of all, you see that little purple flag? If I hover over it, it says mozzarella, the name of my tag. And if I click on this, there it is, mozzarella. And I dropped it at 1 minute 17 seconds. So that's the timestamp of where that marker happened. There's also always a marker for the beginning of the composition and the end of the composition. So if you wanna quickly jump to the end, you click on that. And if I wanna return to my mozzarella marker, I click on that and boom, there I am. If I want to move a marker I've created, I can hover next to it, left of it, and my cursor turns into this hand and I can drag it over a word. So there's the word mozzarella and I release it. And markers always go on their own line. So notice that it pushed mozzarella down below. And the previous word up above. But again, it's not affecting my video. This is purely for my own organization and navigation. Now, if I export this to YouTube, these markers automatically become timestamp chapters in YouTube for the viewer to skip around. The same ones that you see on my video right now, those were created using markers in Descript. Moving on, this is a record button. Alternatively to dragging videos into Descript, you can record directly into Descript. The YouTube video you're watching, this tutorial, was recorded directly into Descript using this feature. So you click on record. You can record just your camera. You can record your screen and your camera. You can record audio only, or you can do a group call using something called Descript Rooms, which is sort of like a Zoom call. but is more professional for making podcasts. This play button is to play back your video to see how it looks. This button right here is to change the playback speed. So right now it's on 1x. You can slow it down to 0.5x all the way up to 3x. And note, this is not going to change the video itself. So if you put this on YouTube, if you have it on 2x here, The video in YouTube will not be 2x. This is purely how it plays back inside of Descript in editing mode. So very important distinction there. The next one is the split button. So notice where my playhead is right before the word mozzarella. If I click split, it just split my video. It didn't delete anything. It just made it so that these are two separate clips so that I can do some editing on either side of. That split. Moving on, this is how zoomed in or zoomed out your timeline is. So it's currently at 159%. If I click the minus button, it's zooming out so that I see more of my timeline. So notice that over here on the left side, if I hover over that number, that little number, it says 59 seconds. That is the furthest left part, closest part to the beginning of my video. That I'm seeing in the timeline. And if I come all the way to the right, I'm over at a minute 45. So I'm seeing about a 45-second chunk of my video right here. And if I hit the minus sign, I'm going to continue zooming out all the way to the point where I can see my entire video in one view. That's at 50%. If I hit the plus button, I zoom in and I can see way more detail all the way to the point where I'm seeing every single individual frame. Of my video. Next to that are different tools. This entire video so far, I've only shown you the Select tool, but there's also something called the Hand tool, which allows you to click into the timeline and drag and slide left and right. So this is how you can move your view left and right. If we come back to the tools, Blade is similar to Split. So if I click somewhere it splits my video right where I clicked. Going back, range tool allows you to select a specific part of your video. So for example, I see a big pause right here where there's no speaking. I can click and drag and I select that entire silent part and click delete and now it's gone. And then going back, The last one is Slip Tool. That one's a little more advanced, a little bit more abstract, so I'm not going to go into that in this video. The next button is— you're already on it. This is the Timeline View. Next to that is the Storyboard View. So if you click on that, these are the scenes that make up your video. So scenes are a very important concept in Descript and in video editing in general. Right now my video has 5 scenes. These came when I split, these scenes were automatically created. But if you haven't split anything yet, your entire video will be one scene. You use a scene every time that the visual is changing. So notice I added text, and what happened is that text layer filled the scene that I put it into. So I didn't— it didn't go into the scene before. So notice the captions are just down here on this scene, but if I click into the previous scene, there's no captions. If I click into the last scene, there's no captions. So scenes are a way to like isolate and chunk up your video so that you can make certain changes in certain areas without affecting the whole video. And additionally, in this view, you can change the order of things. So here's my last scene. I could click it and drag it in front of the previous scene, and now I've just changed the order of my video. But let's go back to the timeline. I already showed you the, the numbers down here. Below those numbers, this bar right here is called the scene rail. And these little frames, these are frames of the video. So it's what little previews of what my video looks like at that moment in time. So if I'm looking for where I'm looking away, I can click right there where I see that little thumbnail, and I see in the video it corresponds to that thumbnail down there. This is also representing the scene So if I click on this whole thing, I'm going to select— let me switch back to the select tool. I'm going to be selecting this whole scene, and I could delete it. For example, I just press delete, and now it's gone. I'm going to undo that. So there's different ways, different things you can do to the scene as a whole in this view. And between scenes, if you see right here, there's a number 5. That's telling me that this is my 5th scene. Everything to the left of that is my 4th. Scene tells you how long it is on the right side of each scene. And then between scenes, there's this little black icon, and that is for editing a transition. So this is things like fading out of one scene and into the next, or doing a big swooping motion, things like that. Those are called transitions. So if you click on that, you can add— there's a default called a smart transition, which are great. I usually use those. but you can also do blur, different types of wipes, et cetera. And then you can change how fast those take, if they fade or not, or you can remove it. Up above that, there's a little plus button that says insert scene. So if you click on that, it inserts 5 seconds of blank scene. It's just, it's black background with no audio at all. It's a 5 seconds of blank scene, and you can insert new videos into there. New images, whatever you want. It's a very convenient way to make additions to your project. But I'm gonna click on the scene and click delete. Next, right now you notice I have a black background on my video. If I want to change that, right below it, there is the background option. So you click on that and you have a swatch here where you can change to any color. And now I have a red background or I could change it to blue, any color I want using that feature. So you now know what you need to know to make a very basic first video. Now, of course, there's lots of other layers and features and things that go into, but again, those are covered in other videos on this channel and in my course. So check those out. But what we're going to do next is finish this video by exporting it. So if you come up to the top right corner, there's this black export button. Click on that, and you have different tabs here. So you can export it as a video if it is in fact a video. If it's not, if it's audio only, then you won't see that option. But even if it is a video, you can choose to export it as audio only with the audio tab. You can choose to export it as a timeline, meaning you can take it out of Descript and put it into another video editing software like Premiere. You can export the transcript. And take all those transcribed words and put it into a Word document, a text file, et cetera. Or you can export subtitles. These are time-synced subtitles to the audio in the video that you could put onto YouTube or another platform. Typically you don't have to do this anymore because YouTube does it automatically for you. But let's go back to video. This is where most of you are going to spend most of your time. And you can give the, the video a name. So let's call this Buñuelos. And you can see how long the video is. You can see how big the file is. And destination, it defaults to Descript web link. This is going to create a unique URL just for this video that you could share, or you could leave it on private just for you to see, or you could even embed it on your website. I recommend to start with the Descript web link and click publish because this is going to be the fastest way to do anything with your video. I'll talk more about that in a second. So the resolution is right now it's on 1080p, but the video is actually in 4K. So I can go all the way up to 4K and note whatever camera you used, it's gonna say max, the maximum resolution of the camera that you shot the video in. So I always recommend just go to the max quality because why not get the best video you can. Below that is the access. So this is where you can set if it's public, meaning it's searchable on Google, if anyone with the link can see it, or if you have to strictly invite them to the project in order to see it. Because I made a change, the button changed to say update. So I'm going to click on that to update this. Now what's happening is this video is rendering and processing on Descript's servers. So this is the fastest way that you can do something with your video. And you can click on this button right here to see the share page. And this is what it looks like. So it has its own share.descript.com URL and is currently rendering. So it's going to take a little bit to finish, but you can see the transcript is already over there and you could share this with a client or with a collaborator or whatever. And they can comment on it from here. They can download it. They can send it around, all sorts of things that somebody could do if you're sharing this with them. But let's go back to Descript, back to the export button. This button right here is what you could use to put this video onto your website. Once it's finished rendering, you would just copy a bit of code, paste it into your website, and boom, your video's there. And then publish settings. You can, you can customize how it looks on that page I just showed you. Or you can click this download button and that's going to download this video straight to your computer's hard drive. Okay. But let's change the destination. So in addition to web link, you have lots of other choices here, including local export. That's effectively the same as what I just showed you with the download button. But instead of getting all the processing from Descript servers, it's going to happen locally on your computer, which is probably going to be slower. So that's why I don't necessarily recommend that. This is going to be your, your fastest way, but below local export is YouTube. So you can connect your Descript account with your Google account and you can export a video directly to youtube.com and you can set a title. So how is it right now? It has the same title that I gave it in Descript, but you can change the title here for a unique Descript title. And then remember the markers I showed you? Here they are. So those automatically go into the description of the YouTube video and become clickable timestamps inside of YouTube. As well as you can type in a description here, but personally I don't touch this because this will go into YouTube Studio and you can change it there, which is easier. It's just a cleaner way to do it. You can add tags here if you want, and you can set an access level. I recommend leave it on private. That way you have a chance to review the video, make sure everything looks how you expect before you make it public for the entire world to see. But you can change that here if you want to. And then you'll click sign in to YouTube, link it with your Google account, and then publish it. You'll have to come back to Descript and hit export one more time, and then that'll publish it to your YouTube channel. We just spent a whole bunch of time together and you just learned about half of what you need to know to create amazing videos. If you wanna learn the other half and get really good with this tool, check out the link in the description to find my program where I teach you how to use Descript. There's a 10-day trial so you can see for yourself just how valuable it is without needing to buy anything. During your trial, you'll have access to the course, which has over 150 lessons on every single feature in Descript. You also have access to the 3 times per week live group sessions where we talk about whatever you're stuck on. We talk about how to make better videos. We talk about what's new, and it's a really supportive and engaging community, and it's the fastest way to get started with video because you don't wanna figure it all out on your own. Again, link is in the description below.