Descript's delete and ignore functions work differently. Delete removes text from the timeline and exports but stays recoverable. Ignore hides text from playback and exports while keeping it visible and crossed-out in your transcript, making it better for edits you might undo.
Descript allows you to delete or ignore text within your transcript. But what does that mean? What is the difference between ignore and delete? First, descript is non destructive, so nothing is completely deleted. You can always restore to previous versions or bring back deleted text within your transcript. For more on that, check out the video I did about how to restore deleted text. So deleted in description means that the text isn't showing in your timeline or in your transcript, and therefore it's not in your video. Deleted words or scenes won't show up in playback in editing, and it also won't show up when you export the video. Ignoring words is similar. It won't show up in playback or in export, but it does show up in your transcript within your project. So to ignore something, you highlight the words you want to ignore and this menu pops up and then you hit the ignore button and it looks like that it's grayed out, crossed out, and it shows the two vertical gray lines right there. And if you noticed, it also disappeared from my timeline. So it shows up there in my transcript, but not in the timeline. Now what happens when I play it is it'll skip over those words. All I do is click it. Okay, so it's effectively deleted, but I can maintain awareness of it within my transcript. And then you could bring those ignored words back into your video simply by highlighting it again and clicking the ignore button again. And you can see it's now back in my timeline and it's back as white in my transcript. Now if I ignore it again, I can also bring it back by going to my scene boundary, putting my mouse over the scene boundary so it becomes this bracket and then simply extending to the right to bring those words back. And you can see I only restored part of it, but that part is no longer crossed out and it is now white again. So ignoring is useful if you aren't sure about a certain edit. If you're doing a rough cut to get your video down to a certain timeline, you might use ignore on things that you'd like to include if time allows. So it's personal preference and in your personal workflow how you might use this feature or if you use it at all. Personally, I always just delete things, but you may prefer to use the ignore feature in your workflow like this video if you found it useful. Bye.
