Descript Live Q&A (Powerful Tips!)

Foreign. Okay. And we're live. So live. I thought I would start with just answering a couple commonly asked questions that I've gotten throughout the week here on this YouTube channel. And I'm just going to do that to fill time. So please feel free to drop your questions in the chat. I see we already got a couple viewers joining on different channels, and so, yeah, as always, open line, open line. Friday, drop your questions in the chat and I'll respond to those. But until I get questions, I'm going to run through some of these commonly asked, or some of them are commonly asked. Some of them I got for the first time this week. But let's start with can descript be used for podcast editing? So, yes, absolutely. I Show video 99% of the time on this channel, but it's great for podcast editing. In fact, that's descripts. That's where descript shines, is podcast editing. And to this project I have pulled up right now is a video project, but I can convert it to audio only. And when the questioner is asking, can you make podcasts? I'm assuming they're talking about just audio without the visual component. And if that's the case, then what you can do is switch to set composition to audio only. And when you click on that, boom, the visual part goes away. The canvas and everything else works pretty much the same. The big difference is if you're in audio only, there's no scenes. So it's just, you just have the, the script layer, and then you have. You still have different layers. So you can add sound effects, you can add music, but you just can't add images or video. And there's no scenes. So it's just working with one continuous thing. And for me, coming from doing 99% of my editing and video, that's. That gets a little confusing. I'm like, where's my scenes? How am I supposed to figure out where to put this, this other layer here? But yeah. So to answer your question, yes, descript can be used for podcast editing. And my argument is it's the best for that. Descript, I'll be straightforward saying descript is not the best at a lot of things, but for spoken word stuff, descript is great. Okay, how does descript handle multi track editing? So, okay, multi track editing, you need to do something called a sequence. You have to add a sequence which allows you to stack multiple layers, multiple tracks. And if you bring in a interview from something like squadcast, it'll automatically do this. So if you have let's say just for simplicity, two guests, two people talking about. When you hit the Edit and descript button from squadcast, it'll automatically bring it in as two different tracks and each of those tracks will have a visual component and an audio component, thus being a video. And the sequence is. I don't have a way to show it right now without building one. But the other way to get to a sequence is in your project files. Let me turn on my screen cursor thing here so you can see this a little better. There we go. So project files over here on the right, and when you open that up, this is where all of your projects that, all of your files that compose your project live. If you click on these three dots, you can do this create sequence. And again, this will happen automatically if you're bringing it in from something like squadcast. But to start from, from scratch, this is how you do it. And so you'd have track one here and then you could have track two, track three, et cetera, as many tracks as you want. And what this does, what a sequence is, is like a container of these tracks. So if I were to have three different tracks, I got three different speakers going, I can match them all up. So they're all synced, all their voices are in time and they're, they're responding in the right order. When I go to edit in my timeline, it'll just appear as one track and if I make a cut, it'll cut all three of the tracks inside of that sequence proportionally so that they stay in sync. Alternatively, if you didn't use a sequence and you had those as three separate layers in your timeline, you'd have to cut every single layer together and then you'd have to make sure that they're all cut at the same places, otherwise the whole thing's going to get out of sync. So yeah, to answer your question, that's how descript handles multi track editing. And from inside of your sequence, you can do things like mute a track. You could delete a certain section of a track if there's crosstalk, for example, if some people are talking over each other, then you can cut out the spots where that's happening and clean it up in that way. So yeah, multitrack editing, sequence editing is an essential skill if you're recording with more than one person on more than one track. Somebody asked what is overdub and how does it work in descript? So overdub is kind of a deprecated, out of date term. I think they still let Me just write something in here. It's now called a speaker, but there's still a place where it says overdub. So let me, let me use underlord. Actually for this I'm going to, I clicked on under underlord. I'm going to say write a script. Starting point. Write a script about overdub in descript. Doesn't matter what it's about because I'm just going to demonstrate this and it generated my script and for some. Okay, there it is. Add to script. There it is. So now if I click on, if I highlight some words, I click on this menu above it that says replace, you can see right here. And it's not an option right now. It's grayed out, but there's overdub. So they still use the word overdub. And what overdub is, is it'll take the, it'll allow you to input text and then convert it to speech, spoken speech. So, and it uses a voice that you've trained or one of descripts stock voices. And if I were to add a speaker, this add speaker is always above every paragraph in descript. If I click on it, these AI speakers here are the ones that I've trained. So I have Ross Ross 2.0 and then there's down here, browse stock speakers. And these are the ones that ship with descript. They're just generic, like British accent, some of them, they say what they are, so British announcer, adult feminine. And it sounds like this life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the next. Hopefully you can hear that through the live stream. But it's just a generic built in one. And so you could apply those, those are the AI speakers. But the important thing is if you need to correct something, then you can go to Overdub and then it'll, it'll allow you to change what's being said, basically using the voice that you've labeled it as. So that should answer your question. That's what overdub is. And that's how it works in descript. The next question is the opposite of the first question. Is descript suitable for video editing? Yes, it is. So it's good that I'm already in an audio only project because if I go to the composition name or the project name here at the top, once again, where before it said set composition to audio, I can do set composition to video and I'll return to video. And even if I already had something in here, for example, if I had A stock video in here. And I'm just. I just clicked on it to add it. I went to Media, clicked on the first thing that was in that list and that's going to add it to my project. Oh. And added it to my. To what I had selected, which was just those three words. I'll talk about that in a moment. So it's now a video. It's got video in it. If I change it back to audio the same way, then it gets rid of the video. But when I bring it back again, the video is still there. So all that data of the video part of it is still there in the background. So yeah, I just point that out that it's. It's instant to convert between the two and yeah, it's. It doesn't matter. It also doesn't matter because if you go to Publish, even though this is a video, I can choose to export it as an audio file by clicking on that audio tab. And then I could choose to export it as WAV, MP3, M4A, etc. And so functionally, when I export as one of those, it's an audio only file. So just multiple different ways to get to the same result. Next question. Does descript offer collaborative features? Yes, it does. So there's several ways to collaborate in a descript project. The I'm trying to think how to tackle this. The simplest is if you share it as a web link. So this thing right here under the publish button, and then there's this thing that says web link and then you hit publish. What that does, once you've published it to a web link is it generates a web link. And if you click on this globe right here, it opens another page, which is this video, obviously. And it's going to take a little bit to render. Shouldn't take too long. This is actually the fastest way to process your videos. But you can see that it's got the transcript down here. And then it's just a normal. You can play pause, et cetera. So you could share this with a client. If you're doing professional editing or doing marketing for somebody, you could. However, this makes sense. If you have editors you're working with, then you. Then you could, you could communicate with them here. And the way you do that is by highlighting some words. And then this little comment bubble pops up and you can click on that and then you can see it's timestamp. So it says 20 seconds. And then you could say, this is my comment. Oops. You got to actually click that button and Then there's your time, there's your comment. And you could respond to that comment or if it's your client leaving you feedback, for example, on an edit, they're saying cut this scene or something like that. Then you could, once you've done it, you could just hit that little, that little check mark to mark it done. And you can set up your notifications so that you get an email every time a comment is left. And there's all sorts of settings associated with that. But that is. This is the most user friendly way to communicate. Now the way to edit together, like let's say you're working with a team of editors. It's you and some VAs that you hired or whatever doesn't. Whatever your situation is. Then the easiest way is within a project to click on this Project access button. And I actually did a video about this, I think it was yesterday, about how to add somebody here, which is really simple. All you do is just enter their email address. That's the email address for their descript account. And then you assign them a permission level. So either they can edit or they can leave comments and that's it. Those are the, those are the two options. Then you click Invite to Project. It sends them an email with a link to then join your project and then from there they can edit it. And this doesn't generate an editor seat. An editor seat is when you're actually paying another. A seat is another membership. So you don't have to pay when you do this option through the Project access and then. But they are. There are other limitations. If they're on a free plan, they won't be able to access certain features and things like that. But to get full access, you'd have to have your editors on their own editor seats, which I'll talk about in a moment. And then you can set the access level. So project access required means you have to explicitly send them the email invite. Using this thing above, anyone with the link can view means you could post this on publicly and anyone could join. Anyone with the link can. Or sorry, yeah, yeah, anyone with the link. So if the link is available, they could join. They could view it. This other one is anyone can comment and then you could copy that link and then you could send it out to a group or whatever it is that you want to do with it. So that's project access. The other way would be to go into your settings and add someone here. This would add a member. So this is different than adding a editor to an individual project. This will add Somebody to the entire drop drive, they'd be able to see all my folders, all of my projects, everything that's inside of this drive. And then you can invite them by email once again. And of course, that's their descript account email. And here's the thing about inviting someone to a drive is you have to pay for an editor seat for them, which will be the same editor seat that or the same level of access that you have. So if you're on the hobbyist plan, which is until a week ago was the creator plan. If you're on the hobbyist plan, it'll be $144 a year. If you're on the what's now called the creator plan, it'll be $288 a year. And then you can, you can either give them editor access, which would require buying a seat, or you can do basic access, which is like a free level editor. And so they're basically just all the limitations of being on a free descript account. Like, you are very limited on the stock media, one hour of transcription a month, and it's, it's very limited in what you can do with it. Okay, so hopefully that makes sense. I know it's, it's confusing the delineation between like project access and, and drive access, but. And there's a lot of gray area, like what happens when a team member leaves, who gets access to who, who controls the account? And there's all these different gray areas that, that happen, but that's the high level. Okay, let's see what's next in the chat. And please feel free to keep the questions coming. Drop them in the chat as we go. Otherwise I'll just keep reading off of these ones that have, that I've built up over the last week. Okay, this question goes in line with what I was just talking about. How much does descript cost? And this is timely for another reason because this all just changed on July 2nd, three days ago. There's still. Well, there's four plans now. So there's the free plan, which is very limited, and it's gotten more limited. There's the hobbyist plan, which until three days ago was called the creator plan. There's the creator plan, which until three days ago is called the pro plan. And then there's a new one called business. And these are all displaying the annual rate, so $12, $24 and $40 respectively. And you can toggle over to monthly. And these have gone up actually from what they used to be 19, 35 and 50 respectively. And so that's a big difference. That's. Yeah, that's going to. Makes it much more enticing to get the annual plan, which is, of course what they want. So the biggest difference now is that there's limitations on the AI use. If you're on the Hobbyist plan, you only get 20 uses per month of the AI suite, which is the filler, word removal, studio, sound, social posts, create clips, all this stuff in the underlord tab, you get unlimited with the creator and the business plan. And then there's also limitations on the AI speech, 30 minutes on hobbyist, 120 minutes on creator, and 300 minutes on the business plan. And that's the. I talked about this when I answered the overdub question. But the AI speech is when you type in text and then convert that to, to speech using the, using the AI system. So, yeah, and then there's also limitations. You can only export it 1080p on the hobbyist plan, 7:20p on the free plan, as well as there's watermarks on the free plan, 4k and above on, or 4k on creator and above, and then the big one. And I, I did a video about this as well a couple days ago. So if that's of interest, you can go watch that whole thing. But the big thing for me is, well, remote, remote recording, if you're gonna be doing a lot of SquadCast calls, you only get 10 hours on hobbyist, 30 hours on creator, and 40 on business. But the big limitation for a lot of people, I think, is the cloud storage. So you get 100 gigabytes on hobbyist, you get, you get 1 terabyte on creator, and you get 5 terabytes on business. So that's a pretty big incentive. If you're doing a lot of video, that's a significant amount of cloud storage, and that is probably the biggest differentiator between these two. So. Oh, and there's also a limitation on file size. I've, I've hit this before, so actually that would be a good reason to bump up to business. If you're recording at 4K and you have just massive, massive file size, that, that's pretty important. Okay, so that's pricing. Let me know if you have any more questions about that. I can go into it and let's see here, what else is on the list? What are the main advantages of using descript over traditional editing software? So, yeah, this is a interesting question. By traditional editing software, I'm assuming you're talking about simple stuff like iMovie as well as like Premiere Pro. And the big innovation of Descript, I don't know if they were the pioneer of this or they're. At least the whole system is focused around it. Is, is the transcript talking about the words right here that automatically get put on the page when you add a file. And they're trying to make it as easy as editing a word doc where you can just select things, delete it, change it while it's highlighted, that kind of stuff. So the main advantage of using descript over another software, quite simply is is that editing it from the transcript before with some things like Audacity, I used Audacity back in the day, you would have to use the sound waves to like identify an um or to figure out where to make a cut. And that's hard. That's a lot of work. It requires a lot of backing up, a couple of seconds, playing it, finding the sound waves, cutting it. It's. It's time intensive. So to be able to just say like, okay, I want to get rid of this whole first paragraph, highlight it, boom, delete, it's gone. It's. It's the best out there for that. Let me know if you have any more specific questions or use cases about that or maybe what editing software you're coming from and I can tell you what makes it different. Let's see what else is in the questions talked about. Multitrack editing. And please, anyone else, feel free to drop more questions in the chat, otherwise I'm going to keep going off of this list. How does Descript Transcription feature work? So I don't know the technical details of how it works, but I can tell you the process of how it works, which is that when you add a file to descript, for example, you drag and drop a file in or you go into project files, which again is where all of the files that make up your Descript project will live. You can drag and drop in here, or you can do an upload. You can do a browse through your computer. As soon as you add that file, a dialog box will pop up that says do you want to transcribe this? And you can turn that off in your settings where it'll automatically do it, but by default it'll ask you and then you can identify speakers and maybe I'll just do it. It'll be easier to demonstrate. Let's do. These ones are things that didn't make the cut. They didn't recordings that failed. So this is what it looks like. As soon as I Drag and drop that video into this project. This transcribing box popped up, says your transcript will be ready in a few minutes. The name of the file and then you can identify the number of speakers. It's just me, so I'd leave it at one, but if you had like multiple speakers, that's where you could put that in. And then you can choose the name of the speaker. So if you saw earlier when I was talking about speakers, this is how you do the text to speech. And so it's always advantageous to label the speaker in case you're going to use that feature. But not only that, it helps with organization. You can see it'll label different speakers as different colored sound waves. So you could have a green sound wave and a purple sound wave and helps you keep track of who's talking and if you have to cut out any crosstalk, things like that. So yeah, so that's where you label your speaker. You can set the language. This is in English and you can say always ask before detecting speakers. Or you could turn that off if you wanted. And then you hit done. And it was super short. That's the thing right there, that's the transcription. It's just a couple sentences, but that's how it looks, that's how it works and hopefully that answers your question. The next thing is that's it. Actually, I went through the whole list. So let me know if you have any questions, drop them in the chat and we'll, we'll go from there. And otherwise I need more ideas of what to talk about. Let's see, I ran a couple polls this week asking people. The people were saying they want to see more of the quick tips which I've been doing just like 1 minute to 2 minute walkthroughs of a very specific feature. And oh, I thought of one question I got this week. Somebody asked, how do you save your project in descript? And the answer is you don't. There's no save button. It's not like a traditional software in that sense. It's cloud based. So everything's backing up to the cloud constantly. And if you make a change, you see this little, this little dot at the top if I hover over it. Hang on. So that thing that says synced and it tells me how long ago it synced, that's telling me that all the changes I made to this project have been backed up to Descript Cloud. And if I make a change, like let me just delete a word, that's not enough. But if it's processing something like you're applying an effect. You'll see it processing, and then that check will appear as soon as it's successfully backed up. And as long as you're connected to the Internet, you don't have to worry about things getting lost. So question in the chat is, what does it look like when you import one video with two or three speakers? So, good question. Let me think if I have any examples I could pull in. Let me take a look at my files here. I don't have any files here, so there's a. I'll talk through it. There's a. Another tool called Detect Speakers, and I can kind of show it it's grayed out if you click on the name of the file. If it doesn't automatically do this, this is how you can manually prompt it. You click on these three dots and then click on Detect speakers. And that'll take you through the Detect speaker wizard, for lack of a better word. And the. It'll play a clip from each unique voice that it detects. And sometimes it fails. It'll detect the same person as different. Different speakers, but it's in fact the same person. But usually it does a pretty good job. And then right next, right under where it plays that clip of that person, you label them and then you click save and it goes to the next one. It automatically goes through all the unique speakers that it found in that video file. Hopefully that helps. How do you use markers in your video? So good question. Very good question. Markers are added with the pound sign, the hashtag signed. So Shift three on a US keyboard. And you can see this thing that just popped up says marker. And if you start typing, I could call this. It's already called marker. So here I'm gonna add another one. Shift three. I'm gonna call this sample one. As soon as I added a marker. First of all, you can see it's. It's bold. It looks a little different. It's got this thing next to it, so you could move it around, change the position of it. It's also right here. So that's. That's a link where if I click on it, notice I'm. Let me scroll to the very bottom and I click on that. It scrolls me to that point in the video. And it also added this tab. This tab didn't exist until I added a marker. So now there's one there. And then there's. There's always a default one at zero, which will be the start of your. Or the name of your project. And the other big thing about markers, and to answer your question, if I use markers in my workflow, yes, they're, I love markers, they're super useful. And on a very short thing, like this is only a minute and a half, they don't make much sense. But on like a hour long, two hour long podcast, they're essential to be able to just like quickly go to a certain point in the video. But the other thing that I use markers for is because I'm making videos for YouTube all the time. If you go to publish and you go to publish to YouTube, check this out. That marker is a timestamp and that automatically becomes a chapter inside of YouTube. And one step beyond that, if you go to underlord, you can do this thing that says add chapters and says divide into chapters and add markers. You can pop in a number there, like two, or you can even write auto and it'll decide how many markers you hit submit. And it created two markers. I hit add to script. There's one and there's the other one. And you can see they're over here, they're over here. And they'll be in my YouTube description. So, yeah, markers are awesome. Definitely use them. Okay. Yes. So the question in the chat, how do you edit a video with two or more speakers? So at the beginning of this live stream, assume you probably weren't here. I talked about this. Sequences are like containers with all the different layers. So it's all on one layer, not different layers. Yeah. So inside of the sequence is multiple layers. And I'll show I actually made one. In this project file, it creates a folder called sequences. And then here's the sequence that I created. There's nothing in it because I was just demoing it, but if I hit edit sequence, there's track one, track two, track three. So if you had different people in your interview, they all had separate mics, separate cameras. This is how you could keep everything in sync. And so you, you just sync it up in here inside of the sequence view. Once they're all in sync, you hit done. And then you would insert it into your script and then it just becomes your, it's just your script layer. And whenever you make a cut to that sequence, it'll cut all the tracks inside of it proportionally to keep everything in sync. So you have to, you have to use them if you're gonna be editing multi track stuff. And the question in the chat, how do you take a two person interview in which you've been using multicam feature to switch between Two speakers in one template to the active speaker on a new template. How do you do that efficiently? Let me make sure I'm understanding the question which you're using all the computers. Okay. If I'm understanding right, you're asking about having two different templates breaks into 100 scenes that I'm currently going to. Yeah, okay. Okay. And then the next part of the question is currently it breaks it out into like a hundred scenes that I'm currently going one by one to apply. So the, that's what the multi speaker does is it'll automatically break it up to every time that one of the tracks is detected, one of the speakers is detected, it'll make that person's video full screen. Thus the active speaker. And, and the thing that I do for two person interviews is I'll do the multicam and let me think if I can show this. I want to show I have one that I can show. Ah, that's not a good sample. So I'll come back to that. I don't want to waste too much time looking for it on this live stream, but basically you have the, the full, full scene views and you can make one that is like essentially your template for where you have two people and I don't know if this is quite answering your question, but it should help with I think what you're looking to do. So let's say that these are two speakers and let me even just add media here like podcast, I don't know. So let's say that speaker A and speaker B and importing video. Just take a moment here. Basically what we're going to do is right click on the scene. So create essentially like a scene how you want it to look. So if I take this one, make her like over here I have my other still importing. Like let's say this becomes my sort of template within my project for how I want the, the two speakers to look. I can copy this scene and let me shrink this down so it could look like this. I can hit copy layout right here. Right click copy layout. I can go to another scene and say paste layout and it pastes that exact thing and I can get rid of that background. It pastes the exact layout from the one that I copied without pasting the content. It's just the, the layout of those two speakers cameras. It's not a, not a perfect example, but hopefully that kind of makes sense. I think what you're looking for is the copy layout feature and templates. If you, you could also apply templates to an entire set of layers if you wanted. I tried creating a sequence, but I couldn't edit the sequence. When I inserted into the video, I had seven voices talking at the same time. And when I played the video. So the. For editing the sequence, it's. Let me just insert the one that I made. If I go to project sequence insert into script. Oh, and there's. It's just empty. So let me actually add something here. Say add media. These are. I'm totally making up examples with ad hoc stuff here. This isn't like proper because it's not. There's nothing to line up here. But let me just add a new track. So now I got two tracks and inside of my sequence, if you're getting seven voices talking at once, they're not in sync. So I'm just going to give this a moment to load so that we can see the sound waves. But you're going to need to get all of them in sync. And again, that was going to the edit, Edit. Sorry, I got distracted by the chat. Edit the sequence and then moving them so the sound waves so that everything's proportional or everything's in sync to how the actual interview is conducted. And let me just close this, see if I can get the sound waves sequence. There they are. So let's pretend that this isn't the same track. And speaker A. Let's call this speaker A and speaker B. Let's say that they're like. Speaker A is asking a question. Speaker B responds, you. You line them up proportional to each other so that they're in sync. And then once that's set, then. Then that's. Then you're set. You can hit done and then it'll all be in sync in that container. That sequence is done. Unless you need to make further changes which to do that you can right click on it and then hit where. That's my. Oh no, that's not my sequence. Okay, so yeah, so the edit sequence question in the chat is the edit sequence. Couldn't find it. Right here in your project files, there's a sequence folder that gets created and then any sequences that you've made will be under it. And you can hit this. 3 dots hit Edit sequence. Yeah. So there's that. And then the other way I'm going to show you is let's say this is already in my script. So this is my sequence right here. I can right click on it and then edit sequence just like you said. And then that pulls up the sequence screen. Yeah. So and then the other question in the chat is back to the copy and paste layout. Go through each of the hundred slides and one by one copy paste layout, depending on if it's one person talking versus both. So yes, for what I showed you, like the thing that's showing both of them, that would be how you do like the side by side view. There's. Let me think about this. There, there would be a way to apply it to all of the active speakers. But let me think about this. If I apply. You've stumped me. I don't know, I'm. I'm blanking right now. Public, public, public math. There is a way, There is a way where you can apply it to the active, the multicam feature where it'll apply that template and then that's probably what you're looking for is from the start to have it all applied throughout the whole video. It's a good question. I'll make a, I'll make a video about that later when I'm not remembering how to do it on the spot. Anything else related to that and you could apply a template. So for example, you could apply something from the gallery, like let's say maybe this will jog my memory when I do it. Like let's say I apply this and supplying layout. And by the way, that was scene. And then choose template and then you just pick something from the gallery. The gallery is all of descripts built in stuff, all their built in templates. And then you could tweak it from here, you could change what they have and then let me change the order of these so they're not hidden. Where's the other one? There she is. And then you copy and paste this view so that's not even a sequence so that this template didn't work correctly. But you could, you could do a multi cam if it was a sequence, could do captions. But the same principle here you do copy layout and then just to demonstrate it, you could do paste layout and then you can see it put in that background, it put in the text layer, it put in the rectangle and made for random purposes and such for one speaker versus two. Yeah. So question in the chat is they have custom templates made for branding purposes for one speaker versus two. So, so one person is on the video at all time is what I'm understanding. Um, what you could do, I don't. It would depend how you have it set up. Here's what's tricky about templates is the way that I, I teach this is there's two types of templates there's templates that affect the size and position of layouts. So if I click on my scene one, I go to the scene and I click on, like, for example, one of these layers, some of the templates will affect the size and position. So, like, the X and Y coordinates and the height and width. Some templates add layers and some templates do both. So this template added this rectangle layer, this title layer, this template layer, and et cetera. So if your template, your custom template is captions, then the easiest way to make that fill the whole project. And I can just demonstrate this. Like, let's say I add templates or add captions to scene two. So I go to my scene, I choose a template, I choose this one that's called Captions. It's applying layout. There's this captions layer, but it's only in scene two. So what I could do is just simply drag that, that caption layer to fill the whole project. So I could just click on it and drag it to extend it to the end of the project, like so. So that's. That's the easiest way, if that's what your templates are. But if they're size and position templates, that gets a little bit more complicated. And by the way, this is like people always, if I'm in a tutoring call and I teach somebody this, they're like, that made the whole thing worth it. Thank you. Zooming in on the timeline like I just did is holding command on a Mac and Control on a Windows and then scrolling up and down with your mouse. So that'll zoom in and out on your timeline and then shift and scrolling up and down will scroll left and right on your timeline. So that's navigational. And then somebody said, I tried using a template. Templates are confusing. Yes, they are. There's a lot of nuance to them and every situation is different. But, but. And then the. The question is, what is a placeholder? So this placeholder layer that appeared right here, the reason that's there is this template was looking for a sequence, which we've talked about. Sequences are a container of multiple layers, but there's no sequence here. So it creates a placeholder for the layer that it can't find. The two layers that it can't find, there's placeholder one, placeholder two, and it's nothing. It's like a empty rectangle. Like, you see, I have it selected right now on my canvas. There's nothing there. It's literally like. It sounds like a placeholder. If I go to layer, there's nothing. There's no color, there's nothing. So that's why it's, it's a, it's a weird thing of templates if, if you're trying to apply a template to a, a layer that isn't completely compatible with it. Question in the chat is also how do you move a track or caption or title from one layer to another? To reduce the hundred layers in my project. Track or caption or title from one layer to another. Okay, so I think you're asking about layer order, which, if it's, if it's a track, an audio track, then it doesn't really matter except visually. But with the other things it does matter because it'll affect the order that you see it in. So for example, this. Let's do, let's do right here. So this podcaster on the left is getting covered up by these pill looking things, these shapes. So to change the layer order and it'll go, it goes in the order from top to bottom. So top is going to be the most visible. So this caption layer being at the top, other than this placeholder, I'm going to delete that placeholder. My caption layer is going to be in front of everything else. It's going to be the most visible. If I want to change that, I can right click on it and I can go to layer order and I can say bring to front, which it already is. So that wouldn't do anything. Bring forward would bring it one layer at a time forward, but again it's already in the front. Send backward will move it backward one layer at a time. So if I click on that, it's now behind this thing called image 11, which is I think that thing right there. But it's, they're not overlapping anyways, so nothing changed as far as we're concerned. But if I click on it again and I could say layer order, send to back will send it all the way to the back, it'll be the behind everything. So notice it's disappeared. But if I go to my, my timeline, it's now at the very bottom. And yeah, that's layer order. I think probably understand that if you go to layer, you can go hit this back arrow and then you have all your layers right here. So I could drag the captions up as well. And now my captions are back on top. And there's one other thing I was going to point out with captions, you can lock it right there so that now I can't even select it at all. It's like it's stuck in place. Is there something else? Yeah. So I think. Does that answer your question? Is that what you were looking forward, like layer order, I think was the feature you're asking about. Oh, I remember what I was gonna say. The other part with layers is this thing below it. And this is new as of the latest version of descript. But when you make a change, be careful to note whether you have current scene selected or all scenes. Because if I only have current scene selected and this layer spans multiple scenes, only the layer order in this scene is going to be affected, which I may or may not want. If I want it to affect the whole video, I can change it to all scenes and then it'll change it in all scenes. Yeah, that's. That's scene order 101. Okay. In the chat, I was fighting layer order a lot, but I have so many layers, I didn't notice where they were in the charts at the bottom. Yeah. And. And to answer your other question about the placeholder, yes, you can delete it. Those are just. They're nothing. So if you can delete it and it won't affect anything else if you have a bunch of layers. Well, first of all, are they necessary? Because I usually. This is like way more layers than I normally even have. Unless it's like a really complicated animation or something that I've created, I usually only have like three or four layers at any given point. Of course, every project's gonna be different depending on the complexity of it. But. Yeah, so maybe you have like some placeholders or things in there that. That shouldn't be there if that's the case. Like with this captions, this is actually a perfect example. So captions should. Are pretty much always gonna be in front of everything because you wanna be able to see them. So let's say in this situation with my captions on top, I locked it. So now that's not gonna be affected by anything else. And I can kind of just not worry about that. That layer. So for things like that, I would suggest deleting all the unnecessary layers and then locking the ones that aren't gonna be moving or that are just getting in your way. And then between those two things, that should help you get organized with sorting through your layers. Question. In the chat, my latest video, I had one main video with me talking. Then I imported seven videos of the person I was interviewing for. Seven responses from them. Oh, okay. So that was why you had all the. The sequence disorder. So the. The way to do that, if you probably wouldn't. You probably wouldn't need a sequence for that. The best way to do it would probably be to make a cut after you ask the question and then insert the video of their response. If I'm understanding the situation correctly. Since you're not talking at the same time. Sequences are for. If you're in a live interview and everyone's speaking together in real time. But maybe you are in real time and then in which case you would then need to just move those seven clips to line up with your video. So, yeah, it just depends how you. How you did it. And we got eight minutes left. If there's any more questions, keep them coming. So in the chat, I can't do that since you can see me while they talk. I'm not saying anything, but I am nodding as if I'm listening. And you. Let's see. Okay, so they are in real time. Like it's. Yeah, okay, yeah, you're there nodding. So. Yeah, again, it just depends how you have it set up. If they're separate videos, then you could cut yourself out if you wanted. The. The part of you nodding depends if you have both, like side by side camera view or if you have it where there's so many, so many ways you could set it up. I'd have to like, know exactly the. The context. Yeah, the video is not real time since I am playing both parts, I'm interviewing and they are AI responding to my questions. Oh, okay, okay, okay. So in the chat, I'll read it out for anyone who's following along. The video is not real time since I am playing both parts, I'm interviewing and they are AI responding to my questions using my voice Seat changer app. It's not real time. So, yeah, it just depends on like what you're going for. Probably have the. I'm assuming how you did it is you. You played a video or you recorded a video of yourself and then you played the answers and then it was you responding to them. If that's. If I'm understanding correctly, then the best way to do that in the future, if you can, would be to do a screen recording. You could use your webcam or an external camera even, and then record your screen with your app. And then you could change the layers. You come up with a template where you have the response layer and then your layer side by side. If that's what you wanted. Yeah, I just have to see it. I'm trying to conceptualize this. So. Still got four minutes. If there's anything else related to that or anything else, you can let me know. Otherwise I, I can show some other stuff. Okay. So in the video, I ask all the questions all at once. I'm reading off of a script. Then I record myself answering the questions in a voice changer app with an AI avatar. Okay. Okay. Interesting, huh? I'm trying to just think through how to do that. Hmm. I'd have to see it. I'd have to see it and, and see. Do you have examples of other people doing this or maybe completed videos you have? Because that would help me visualize the timing whether you need a sequence or not, if it's all in one frame or if it's separate or if you could use multicam. So sorry, I'm not able to. To think in public on that one without seeing it. Let's see here with the recent Change 3 Oryx YouTube channel. Okay, I'll check that out. I'll pull that up so I can look at it after three orcs. Cool. Yeah. And I might make a video out of it and I can tag you if that's okay with you, and then give my solution. Made two full length videos already. Then I made four shorts. Okay. Yeah, I see your channel, I see your videos. Cool. What was I gonna say? Well, we got two minutes left, so I'll use this time to pitch what I do in case you don't know if you've made it this far. Thank you. Thank you for being here. I have a website in business called Descript Mastery and primarily I do tutoring. I do a lot of just hourly calls. People Book an hour with me and then you can go over any questions you have. And yeah, it's whatever tailored to your goals and your current level. Usually absolute beginners. And you'll get the most benefit if you're a complete beginner because then you don't even know where to start. So I can help with that. I can show you all the what's possible and how. I recommend that you go about learning this software or if you're expert, you've used other softwares and you're transitioning to descript. I can help with that and I have packages. You can book one session, you can book three sessions, five sessions. And I have a sale right now for July where if you book a five session pack, then you can get two calls for free. And then if you prefer the DIY option, I have a course. And the course is roughly 7 hours of content and every single lesson there's 90 almost 100 lessons in it has an action item. So after you learn the skill then there's an assignment. And the idea is that you complete each, use each individual skill as part of a larger project that you work on throughout the course. So that by the end, as it says here, you'll have completed projects of your own and there's a community with it. So you can leave questions on any of the lessons and I respond quickly or you can commit, interact with other people or see the questions that have already been asked, stuff like that. And then I also do templates. So templates you. I have free templates available for Download. This is descriptmastery.com templates and I do custom templates which is the way I do this now is I used to have an order form but just recently I started doing workshops. So if you want custom templates, we get on a call together and and then I'll make the template live with your input. Cuz it's just it was way too difficult to email back and forth. Like what color do you want? Where do you want your logo, where do you want? So we just get on a template, knock it out. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes, sometimes it takes a couple hours. Just depends how many you want, how complicated they are. And then I have a standalone class which is also part of the Masterclass, but if you want to buy just the templates portion of it, it's $50 and it's descriptmastery.com templates masterclass. I do these live streams once a week. This links to this YouTube channel that you're on right now. I have the free templates that I already mentioned. I have a seven day course where every day you get a lesson by email. And then I have a checklist for squadcast. If you're going to make podcasts using Squadcast, all this stuff is free recommended tools. These are just like affiliate links to things that I recommend, like this microphone for example, and cameras, editing computers, stuff like that. That's pretty much it. If you have questions, the fastest way to reach me is this chat bubble right here in the bottom right of every page of the descriptmastery.com or you can email me or you can find me on these live streams. All different ways to reach me. Thank you so much for joining and I'll see you next week hopefully. Or hopefully in a tutoring session or something. Have a great one.