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- Video editing software that lets you edit your videos
by editing text, like a document, and uses AI to transcribe
and to deep fake or to overdub your voice easily
to patch up any mistakes.
That's exactly what Descript Video Editor is.
It's super cool and could totally transform the way
we currently edit videos, so how well does it actually work?
I never actually said that last sentence.
That was all the Descript.
So all I did was type it in like this, then hit play
and this was the result.
It's super cool,
and could totally transform
the way we currently edit videos.
- Yeah!
- So that's pretty insane,
but let's dial it back for a minute.
What exactly is Descript?
Descript is a very simple,
very easy to use audio and now video editing platform.
And I think this is something that's really gonna change
the game in terms of video editing for a lot of people.
All you need to do is to drag and drop a video file
onto your Descript project, so after a few quick seconds,
this is what we have literally
a full word for word transcript of everything
that I've said in this video.
Even from a yeah, just checking that the camera is recorded.
Now we do have a basic editing functionality
on the bottom here as well,
essentially like your video editing timeline,
but where this is really powerful
is that we can now edit this as if it was text.
So all of this stuff at the start here
where I'm just checking things and talking to myself,
I can just highlight and then press delete on the keyboard
and that's gone.
But where I think this gets really powerful
is it makes it so easy for you to see
where you've made mistakes.
And if you're redoing a restarting, a section,
which is what I tend to do when we create our videos.
So, I can see here for this a movie tutorial here,
I've redone the intro a few times,
so all I need to do here
is just look down at these paragraphs for the last time
that I've started this sentence,
in which case it's this one here.
So, I can grab all of this up here and press delete.
And it's gone.
This is now where I actually wanna start the video
to do that in your editing software.
You're literally gonna have to play through each take
or know roughly about where you're editing
or if you're really advanced.
And you know that your last take is your best take.
And you're only moving on
when you're doing that while you're filming,
then you might be able to jump to that section much faster,
which is what I've been doing previously.
So this makes it so fast and so easy to go through
and to quickly trim down masses of footage,
to just the content that you actually want really,
really fast.
If you take a look down at the bottom here in the timeline,
you can see we've got our audio.
We've still got some big chunks of silence
in there between the different takes.
What I like about Descript is,
that not only do they stand out,
when you're looking at your document,
you can see here it's got this little symbol,
10.5 seconds of a gap off to this one,
27.4 after this,
4.7 after this, we can actually batch remove
or tighten all of those up with just a couple of clicks.
So if we come up at the top here to this little wrench
or spanner and we go to shorten word gaps,
then in here, all of those gaps,
we can see where they are and we can click on them
to be taken straight to those places,
but we can also bulk remove them all.
So let's say we wanna shorten all of these here
down to 0.3 seconds, I can just go apply to all.
And all of those gaps are now shortened.
And if we zoom out now on this bottom timeline,
we can see it's gone through
and actually made cuts in our timeline
as if we've manually gone through
and removed all of those chunks manually.
Now, if you're someone like me that also says,
uh, so or any other
gap or filler words that you have
while you're creating your videos,
you can also quickly and easily remove those as well.
Again, coming back up to that wrench.
You wanna come down to remove filler words,
and this is going to highlight all of those in your video.
So I can just select this and deleted.
And it is now gone from our video,
but I cannot stress how cool it is just to have all of this
easily highlighted that you can go through
and remove all of these with just a couple of clicks.
Now you don't just have to edit your video from text in here
if we bring this panel back across,
we can actually see our video in here as well.
And we've got just basic video editing tools
down the bottom here,
like blade to be able to make a cut in our timeline.
We can also grab the arrow and we can reposition
or shorten or extend out our clips.
And if you did delete a chunk of text up here
that you wanted to bring back in,
then yet you can just grab the clip down the bottom
and extend that back out as well.
Just like you would with regular video editing software.
You also have a lot of other regular video editing tools
in here as well.
Like the ability to add in any titles or graphics,
music and sound effects.
And there's also some really powerful audio editing tools
in here as well, to help you clean up your audio,
remove background noise, adjust your volumes.
And even to help you bring more fullness
and more body into your audio as well.
And this text, you can also easily
add it into your video as well.
If you're someone who wants to add subtitles
or captions into your videos,
you can either download this text as an SRT
or a subtitle file, or to add it into your video.
We can come up here to the little plus
and come down here to fancy captions.
And now when we go through our video here,
we've now got titles
that are added directly on top of our video
that we can customize up, and change the fonts,
change the colors, pick it up, resize it,
as if you'd manually gone through
and typed all of this out yourself.
Now for the AI stuff in here,
you've already seen how quick and how accurate Descript
is been for just transcribing the video
and bringing all the text in here.
But as you saw earlier in the video,
you can also use the Descript's AI technology
to copy your voice, over dub, is what they call it.
And essentially you train it up
and it's going to sound pretty close to you.
It's not 100% accurate, but it is pretty close.
Now it really doesn't take long to train Descript
up with your voice.
You used to have to go through this process
where you would read out 15,
20 minutes worth of text on screen,
and record it and send that off as a sample of your voice.
But now all you need to do is to upload a video
to Descript, and it's going to come back with a voice,
that's gonna sound just like the voice that you uploaded.
So I've ahead and done that with about a 10 minute video,
so yes, I could upload more and it would be more accurate,
but already with just 10 minutes of training,
it's not bad with what it can do, so to add in some texts,
you wanna come up to the little plus button,
then down to overdub, you're gonna pick my voice,
so where it says untitled here,
I'm gonna switch it to Justin.
And then I can literally just type in here,
whatever it is I wanna say, so once you finish typing,
you can see down the bottom here is generating that overdub.
And again, it's really quick.
Let me just come up here and hit play
and let's see if it sounds like, one, two, three, four, five
testing, testing.
Hi, my name is Justin,
I'm from Australia,
and I love helping people with all things video.
Okay, I don't know about the Australia,
but the rest of it,
it's pretty good,
so this isn't something that I would say
I would be using to write out full sentences at this point,
but what it does mean
that is if I forgotten to say something
or I've misquoted something or given the wrong price,
I can literally just highlight the text,
delete the piece that I said,
type in a new number or a new price.
And it's gonna sound close enough
that video is still going to work,
and I don't need to go and re-shoot
or re-record anything to have a usable piece of content,
and again, maybe with some more training,
it's gonna sound a little bit more like me.
Yes, very crazy.
Now, while Descript
really is a complete end-to-end video editing solution,
that you can start a video edited at titles, graphics,
music, and everything to it,
and save it out as a complete video from Descript.
One of the really powerful features in there
that I absolutely love and this is where I see us using it.
We've already started to play around with it
is to do the base edits in Descript,
'cause you can see how fast it is to edit down
lots and lots of video footage,
lots of bad takes and mistakes.
We can take all of that out really quickly,
but then I can take it over to our video editing software,
things like Adobe Premier or Final Cut,
and actually finished the video in those applications.
This is something that would have been huge
on some of the documentary projects that we've worked on.
We were interviewing lots of people.
The interviews are going for two to three hours each,
that's a lot of content.
And we were essentially doing paper edits
anyway to go through and find that best stuff.
If we were now doing that in Descript,
it would be an absolute game changer.
And I probably wouldn't have so many gray hairs.
Now, if you do wanna jump in and give Descript to go,
or you wanna find out more about these features
and how easy it is to edit in, we do have a full tutorial,
which I will link up in the cards,
taking you through an edit step-by-step,
but also highlighting all the other really cool features
that are in here as well.
Now, in terms of pricing, there's three main options.
There is a free one,
but it does have a watermark on the video,
if you're gonna save it out from Descript.
And it's also gonna limit you to three hours of video
or audio transcription in there,
the creative plans where I'd say that most people
are gonna start out.
This is gonna give you 10 hours of transcribing per month.
And it will also remove the video watermark
and then to access all of the Pro-features.
And that's where you want the Pro-plan for $24 per month.
So this is why I truly think that Descript is the future
of video editing, well done Descript.
They have no idea that I'm making this video,
is definitely not sponsored or anything like that.
I'm just pumped to make it,
because I think this really is gonna be a game changer
moving forward for anyone that is serious
about streamlining their video creation
or someone who doesn't even wanna dive
into a proper video editing application,
you can now edit, just using text.
This is gonna lower the bar
for so many people to create content
and to start getting their message
and their story out there.
Now, for those of you that wanna find out more
about Descript don't forget to check out,
our complete Descript tutorial
where we're editing a video down.
That one is linked on screen now,
and I'll see you in the next video.
Cheers.