Descript has become my go-to nearly effortless, a video
editing tool these days.
It has a ton of powerful features, but I want to show you my five favorite
Descript tricks to you create pro looking videos really quickly and really easily.
My name is Meredith Marsh, and I've been using this channel to teach
people how to create videos and edit videos for the last few years.
And when I say that I have been blown away by Descript in the last few months.
I am not exaggerating.
It's kind of magical.
These are going to save you time when you're creating and editing your videos.
And if there's anything that I know we both struggle with, it's finding
time to actually create our content.
Number one: Overdub.
If you don't know what overdub is, let's try it.
if you mess up a word like in the middle of a sentence, you can just change it on
the fly in the middle of that sentence without having to record anything.
This is a fresh cup of water.
Obviously this is coffee, so I messed that up.
Let's overdub it.
This is a fresh cup of coffee.
Coffee, so it's not like the most perfect thing, but it may Work
in certain situations for you.
And the really cool thing about overdub that I don't think a lot of
people know about is you can have certain styles of your overdub voice.
So you can have one that is more serious.
And one that's more exciting.
But the second trick I want to show you is Caption templates.
Now I used Descript to batch-record 25 days worth of short form
videos for Tiktok, Reels, and Shorts back in December.
And one of my favorite.
Uh, tools with Descript is that it takes your caption.
So you can correct the transcript and then put the captions on the video.
So the captains are burned into the video and you can actually
style them, however you want.
They have like the karaoke style, which is really cool.
And then you can save this as a template.
So if you create a lot of short form content and you like to do
it on your desktop, even if you're recording with your phone, Then you
can save your captions templates and have it branded for your brand
colors or however you want it to be.
And you don't have to fart around with getting the right colors in
the right font every single time, which I know is a big frustration.
If you're editing like TikToks within the Tiktok app.
The third trick along the same lines, you can create video templates.
So if you have the same background music or your lower third intro or
whatever you need to come in, you don't have to keep adding them manually.
And, you know, reinventing the wheel each time you can create a
video template so that your lower third comes in at the right time.
Your background music comes in at the right time.
I like to have one where I have a few different background music
stacked on top of each other.
And then I just mute and unmute the ones.
That I want to use because I tend to reuse some of the same background music.
Number four.
A lot of people don't know that Descript is actually pretty
good at multicam editing.
And the ways that I like to use this is when I'm doing a tutorial where
I have my screen and I have my face, and I want to be able to show both.
Or flip flop back and forth between the two.
I can use a multicam editing for that descript makes it so easy to do.
Now, this, I feel like is a little bit more of an advanced
video editing technique.
You can do it in final cut pro and premiere pro.
And probably some other editors.
I was really surprised when I learned that Descript could
actually do multicam editing.
But it works, whether you're recording into Descript, or if you want to pull
in some different camera angles, as long as they were all shot at the
same time, it's really easy to create a multicam sequence, get everything
lined up, and then you can just edit between them, however you want it to be.
The fifth trick and I'm having a hard time deciding what to even include here,
because I have so many other tricks.
So maybe I'll share a few more after this, but the fifth trick is
that you can remove your word gaps.
So if you're recording a video and you often.
You know, stop to take a breath or take a drink, or look at your notes or whatever.
And you have these long gaps in your video that you have to go in.
You had to edit those out.
Plus you have to go in and find all the places where you messed up your words.
With one click of a button, you can get rid of all of those word gaps.
This is like so magical.
So what I do is I say, anytime, there's a gap that is more than one second long.
Make it just a one second gap.
And when I do this, I mean, look at how many gaps I have in my videos.
So it removes all of those with one click.
Instead of having to go through and just like chop everything up.
So now that you've seen, how does script can transform your video editing process
and save you time, if you want to learn more about the exact video editing process
that I teach my clients and students.
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I have so many more descript tricks to share with you.
So make sure you hit subscribe And let me know in the comments what
your favorite Descript tricks are.
So I can maybe include them in my next video.
I have a few more up my sleeve, but I want to hear what yours are.