WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.890 Andrew: Hey there, existing Descript customers! 00:00:02.100 --> 00:00:03.360 Well, we've done it again. 00:00:03.390 --> 00:00:04.350 Gone and changed everything. 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:06.449 Descript's been completely redesigned! 00:00:06.869 --> 00:00:10.340 There's a ton of new stuff, so hopefully you're mostly happy about that, but you're 00:00:10.340 --> 00:00:13.430 also maybe going to be at least somewhat annoyed because we've moved everything 00:00:13.430 --> 00:00:16.340 around, and while most of the stuff we've moved around, it's going to feel 00:00:16.340 --> 00:00:20.000 obvious and better, hopefully, some of the stuff like keyboard shortcuts that 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.300 we change, there's no way you're going to just figure that out on your own. 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:24.620 So that's why I made this video. 00:00:24.650 --> 00:00:27.500 We've got a full list of everything that's changed in our help center, but in this 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:31.385 video, I'm just going to highlight like 10 things that I think will be the most 00:00:31.385 --> 00:00:34.525 useful to help you transition to the new Descript without missing a beat. 00:00:34.725 --> 00:00:34.905 Okay. 00:00:34.905 --> 00:00:38.515 The first thing -the big thing- is that Descript is much more script oriented 00:00:38.515 --> 00:00:40.345 now, and much less timeline oriented. 00:00:40.735 --> 00:00:43.985 You could do a lot more in the script using this concept of scenes. 00:00:43.985 --> 00:00:47.525 And I'm not going to go into detail into scenes in this video, but there's a demo 00:00:47.525 --> 00:00:51.185 project that Descript will put in front of you when you open the app the first time. 00:00:51.515 --> 00:00:52.925 Go through that demo project. 00:00:52.955 --> 00:00:55.445 Even if you think you already understand everything already. 00:00:55.715 --> 00:00:59.585 Because while this new version of the script is simple and everything, it's also 00:00:59.585 --> 00:01:03.485 introducing a whole new way of editing and you kind of do have to rewire your 00:01:03.485 --> 00:01:07.085 brain around that, especially if you're really used to editing on the timeline. 00:01:07.895 --> 00:01:10.295 Number two, the timeline, where did it go? 00:01:10.475 --> 00:01:11.285 It's still here. 00:01:11.555 --> 00:01:14.345 If you need to use the timeline, just click on this thing, to 00:01:14.345 --> 00:01:15.715 see the fully expanded view. 00:01:16.055 --> 00:01:18.605 And note that when you drag layers around, we call them layers 00:01:18.605 --> 00:01:19.725 instead of tracks now, by the way. 00:01:20.135 --> 00:01:22.625 Hold shift if you don't want them to snap to scenes. 00:01:22.938 --> 00:01:25.128 Third, where are your project files? 00:01:25.458 --> 00:01:25.898 Here they are. 00:01:26.139 --> 00:01:27.029 In the insert toolbar. 00:01:27.129 --> 00:01:29.429 Along with all the other things you can insert into your compositions. 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:33.589 This is the library store and it has your project media library, as well 00:01:33.589 --> 00:01:35.149 as our new cloud media libraries. 00:01:35.419 --> 00:01:37.789 The shortcut to open this as command shift L. 00:01:38.279 --> 00:01:41.239 Note that we've gotten some feedback from people who like having it open 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.539 all the time, well, you can still click and drag it to keep it open. 00:01:44.809 --> 00:01:45.619 Number four. 00:01:45.619 --> 00:01:45.889 Okay. 00:01:45.889 --> 00:01:48.679 You found your media library, but the compositions aren't in there anymore? 00:01:48.859 --> 00:01:49.309 That's right. 00:01:49.339 --> 00:01:50.299 They're in their own drawer. 00:01:50.329 --> 00:01:53.409 Command shift seat, open this and the cool thing is that you can use 00:01:53.409 --> 00:01:56.589 the arrow keys and enter to navigate to the one you want to switch to. 00:01:56.619 --> 00:01:57.359 Super fast. 00:01:57.639 --> 00:01:58.359 I hope you like this. 00:01:58.359 --> 00:01:59.079 I really like it. 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.739 Number five, we changed a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. 00:02:02.829 --> 00:02:05.739 You can get the full list by hitting on the question mark down 00:02:05.739 --> 00:02:07.179 here, but here's a few highlights. 00:02:07.449 --> 00:02:08.619 For transcript correction. 00:02:08.619 --> 00:02:11.849 It used to be that you hold E and click to correct a word, W to 00:02:11.849 --> 00:02:15.389 toggle through punctuation options and cue to toggle capitalization. 00:02:15.749 --> 00:02:19.849 Well, we just moved all that stuff down to rose to C X, and Z. 00:02:20.429 --> 00:02:23.159 Just one more quick one, if you're still using tab to start and stop 00:02:23.189 --> 00:02:26.189 playback instead of spacebar, that doesn't work anymore. 00:02:26.229 --> 00:02:28.239 We needed tap for keyboard accessibility. 00:02:28.239 --> 00:02:29.259 There was no getting around it. 00:02:29.679 --> 00:02:34.656 So just use space bar, but we also have command S start and stop playback. 00:02:34.726 --> 00:02:36.106 If you're in Correct or Write mode. 00:02:36.586 --> 00:02:39.736 Speaking of the script modes, we added this new one called write mode. 00:02:39.946 --> 00:02:40.466 That's number six. 00:02:40.906 --> 00:02:44.746 So now if you want to type long form overdub text, you press W to enter right 00:02:44.746 --> 00:02:46.386 mode or do it from the dropdown up here. 00:02:47.086 --> 00:02:49.246 This solves a problem we had where the behavior of the 00:02:49.246 --> 00:02:50.866 space bar got really confusing. 00:02:50.866 --> 00:02:53.656 If you were in edit mode and trying to edit overdub text. 00:02:54.316 --> 00:02:57.586 Number seven, our whole workflow for making . Audiograms has changed. 00:02:57.946 --> 00:02:59.956 Before you'd go to export. 00:02:59.956 --> 00:03:02.616 And there was this dedicated flow with these prefab templates. 00:03:03.306 --> 00:03:05.556 And now you just use our brand new templates feature. 00:03:06.216 --> 00:03:08.466 So say I want to turn this little passage and do an audiogram. 00:03:09.066 --> 00:03:09.876 I select it. 00:03:10.176 --> 00:03:13.506 click the duplicate button and it puts it in its own composition. 00:03:13.896 --> 00:03:17.506 Now I just go here, open the templates drawer and pick a great template. 00:03:18.106 --> 00:03:21.046 And the cool thing with this approach is that they're fully customizable 00:03:21.076 --> 00:03:22.866 and can even save your own templates. 00:03:22.926 --> 00:03:23.526 So neat. 00:03:23.943 --> 00:03:24.693 Number eight. 00:03:25.043 --> 00:03:27.113 Can you figure out how to change the aspect ratio? 00:03:27.683 --> 00:03:30.443 Throughout the beta we've put it in a few different spots to try to put it 00:03:30.443 --> 00:03:33.773 somewhere where people will find it, so go ahead and pause and see if you can 00:03:33.773 --> 00:03:36.913 find it on your own and let us know in the comments if you found it or not. 00:03:37.403 --> 00:03:38.693 Anyway, here's the answer. 00:03:38.693 --> 00:03:39.433 It's right in here. 00:03:39.433 --> 00:03:42.223 And the ninth and final thing on this list of like 10 things 00:03:42.223 --> 00:03:43.993 is changing the layer ordering. 00:03:44.263 --> 00:03:47.113 If you want to change the order of things in the canvas, you do 00:03:47.143 --> 00:03:48.553 it from the right click menu. 00:03:48.553 --> 00:03:51.823 Don't try to do it from the timeline, because layer ordering the timeline 00:03:51.823 --> 00:03:55.543 doesn't necessarily reflect the order in the canvas, for reasons that I don't 00:03:55.543 --> 00:03:58.173 want to go into right now, but I promise they'd make sense if I explained them. 00:03:58.563 --> 00:03:59.223 That's it. 00:03:59.423 --> 00:04:02.093 Don't worry if you're in the middle of a project or something and you don't 00:04:02.093 --> 00:04:06.143 want to stop and learn an entirely new version of the app, we're not 00:04:06.143 --> 00:04:09.553 killing off Descript Classic right away, so you have a little time. 00:04:09.943 --> 00:04:12.743 And if you happen to be watching this video close enough to the launch, I'm 00:04:12.743 --> 00:04:16.643 holding live office hours and our discord community at 9:00 AM Pacific every day 00:04:16.643 --> 00:04:20.603 for the next week where you can come by and give feedback or get help or whatever.