Creating and Copying Highlights in Descript

Descript lets you highlight your transcript and then copy those highlights into other compositions. So maybe you want to identify parts of your video, longer video that you want to make into social media clips. Highlighting is an excellent way to do that. So if there's a part that's like a standalone point or a little story that I really like, I could highlight it in the transcript by highlight clicking and dragging over those words. And then let me do it again. And then this little menu pops up. If you, if it doesn't work the first time like it just did for me, then try it again, click away and then highlight those words again. And then this, this menu should pop up and you'll see this little orange button right here. Or yellow, I guess it is. And when you click on it, it highlights that selection into yellow. If you click this little arrow, you can highlight it into any one of these other colors. And then what you can do with that is once you've gotten your whole video marked up how you want to, you've gotten the most important parts. You can go to underlord and type in copy and start typing copy highlights, and this will pop up the first option. Click on that, you can copy all highlights. So if I had a bunch of different colors, I could select everything at once, or I could just divvy it up by colors. So I only have a yellow one. So that's all that appears. I'll click on it and it says here, copied one yellow highlight. And now if I go to create a new composition. So this is just a blank composition and I hit paste. Oops, let me do. I'm gonna do command V on my keyboard cause the mouse isn't working. There we go. And I can just paste it in just like so. So that is how you can use highlights to quickly create other compositions or just identify certain interesting areas of your video.