Descript Multi-cam with Multiple Videos
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2023
- How to create multi-cam videos with separate video and audio files in Descript? Descript allows you to import multiple videos, with separate speakers, synchronize them and then creating a multi-cam composition. In this composition, you can switch the active speaker, control which speaker shows when and where, resize, crop, remove any video while they keep synchronization throughout.
In this lesson, I walk you through this whole workflow or importing the videos, synchronising them into a sequence, adding that sequence to a composition and show you how you can switch layouts, as well as how to have Descript automatically switch to the active speaker.
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Is this course based on the new version of descript?
Yes, it was created right after launch
The free intro is excellent! Descript should send that to their entire membership to keep them from bailing in frustration.
Please share how you did your screen recording, especially the zoom in on clicks?
Thank you! I have used Camtasia to record and edit the entire course, apart from finishing up the sound and subtitles in Descript. As much as I would love to use it, the Descript recorder is not yet ready for this task. Plus, I needed Descript to be ‘relaxed’ and not do anything else during the presentation. Thanks for checking out my course! Feel free to subscribe to my new website for awesome daily tips and tricks with the software I use: www.cotovan.com
@@Graphicious Thank you. I have Camtasia but I'm not very experienced with it. Is the click to zoom automatic (or a feature) or does that have to be done in steps? It's well done ....I wish I'd found it earlier.
If I had found this two weeks ago it would have saved me a lot of time. Thanks for the excellent work
Glad I could help!
not every hero wears capes. Cristi, you are so helpful! Thank you for your insights!
Wow, thank you! I appreciate your kind feedback.
Exactly what I've been looking for from Descript. I've been trying to do this for months! Thank you!
Glad I could help!
great video, thank you. A good balance of not too drawn out and not too short, not too detailed or over explained
Glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate your feedback.
Game changer for me and the information that Cristi gives is crystal clear and easy to understand. Thank you!!
Awesome, thanks for your comment Susan! Glad it helps.
WOW! This just changed the game for me!!! Thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
This was so very helpful I’ve been trying to figure this out for days
Glad it helped!
Incredible job, Cristi! Your method of explaining and demonstrating was absolutely seamless. It felt like you were guiding us through each step with such clarity and precision. Looking forward to improving my videos one step at a time every day!
I've subscribed btw! :)
You are so welcome! Thanks for your feedback.
Badass tutorial!
Keep it up!
Many thanks
Glad you liked it!
super helpful! thanks
You're welcome!
This was helpful!!!
Glad to hear that!
Thank you so much!!!
You're welcome!
Thanks
My pleasure!
Very confusing. THANK YOU for this.
You're very welcome!
Great video Christi- can the auto-switching when "active speaker" is selected be done with only the two MP4s for both speakers in the sequence?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you provide more detail?
Thanks for your video! What do you do with the audio files? Do you just need to transcribe the video file and can ignore the audio files that you uploaded to the project?
If the audio on the video is the same, yes, I don't really use the extra audio files and only transcribe the video one. But if the audio is better than the one on video, I will transcribe and use that. However, you're limited in that situation by the fact that you won't be able to switch to 'active speaker' since the audio is on a separate track and it doesn't know which one to switch to.
Thank you for the video! How did you make this instructional video? Exclusively use Descript? How did you sync the screen demo with your audio when editing?
I record and edit in Camtasia but Descript can do this too, except with a little less quality. Here's my workflow: ua-cam.com/video/KgRVCmELc-k/v-deo.html
Great training - thank you! Do you know if I can create a Picture in Picture video that automatically switches back and forth when the new speaker talks?
You mean you have two speakers and you want the one who speaks to be full screen and the one who isn't, smaller, in a corner?
You'd probably have to first run the "auto-switching" for multi-cam to get Descript to create scenes automatically where the speaker changes. Then you can go to one of each of the layouts and resize the videos to how you want them - the speaker who speaks full screen and enable the other speaker in the corner.
Then you go an copy the same layouts to the relevant scenes, depending on the speakers. It's a bit manual and hopefully you don't have an enormous amount of camera changes, but it's doable.
@@Graphicious Thank you for replying. This is good to know. I followed your channel and am a fan. The new Descript has been hard for me to intuitively use and the training they do is a little vague! (At least the ones I watched). Appreciate your help with learning the new tool!
great vid! can you make one on how to make circle face cam video that can be put at the bottom of screen while explaining something in the frame please?
Yes, I have one here: ua-cam.com/video/oXDCWIWbznE/v-deo.html
@@Graphicious a reply 11 months later haha, thanks
Sorry about that. Somehow I missed it
Very cool! I have 5 cameras for my video podcast can you add more then one cam per speaker and have it randomly choose one of the two cams?
I'm afraid not, only one camera per speaker (but you could assign two different speakers by the same name to the different video streams and mute one of them at different times, letting the other one play. It wouldn't be automated though.
Hi Cristi, I noticed if I try to edit the transition between speakers, it switches the "active speaker" off for a scene. is there a way to make the active speaker constant throughout the interview?
You should add the active speaker at the very beginning of editing, when you don't have any scenes yet. It will create scenes for you. Then you can add transitions to the scenes, not the individual clips and it should keep the assignments. Once it creates the scenes first, with the active speaker, it doesn't go back and re-do it, it allows you to override those scenes with your own layouts.
Hi Cristi - amazing video. I have a project with 3 videos angles and 2 separate audio tracks. The video will be filmed in one room. Once i strip away the cam audio - is it possible to add the audio later?
Yes as long as you sync them, sure
@@Graphicious many thanks - does your course cover multicam? Or do you provide a consulting service?
Thank you so much! Do you know a way to get the different audio tracks recorderd from one file that came from an obs recording? When I am importing my mp4 file that I recorded in OBS with multiple audio tracks in it, descript only displays the first audio track for me
I think you might have to extract the different files from the OBS file separately and upload them on their own to Descript. Use Losslesscut.
@@Graphicious I think Audio Hijack is a solution to record the files seperatly while I am recording in OBS
Maybe, I never tried it.
Hey Cristi! How can I make my vertical 2 speaker video horizontal for tiktok/instagram, such that the two speakers are stacked on top of each other
Change the orientation of the composition to vertical, then stack them on top of each other. Crop, resize and reposition if necessary.
Good exppanation, @12:17 you show a blue slide with bullet points, did you do it in descript ?
Thank you. I did that in Camtasia but you can do it in Descript also.
Nice info. How did you shoot this video by making yourself in front of the video, sometimes becoming small and other times large. Is this possible in descript ?
I did that in Camtasia also, but you can also do it in Descript.
Here's how to do it in Camtasia: ua-cam.com/video/KgRVCmELc-k/v-deo.html
Hello all, I'm trying to edit a 3 cam sequence with two audio tracks, two speakers. I'm having trouble even with these instructions, especially trying to round trip back in Resolve. Any thoughts?
Sorry, I haven't used that with Davinci - I think DaVinci is currently 'beta' supported in Descript, not all there yet. These round trips make me nervous usually, even with Premiere - it's never perfect.
Is there some way to get the captions and other settings propeagate when you are applying active speakers? Right now I am "only" getting the speaker videos, no captions :-(
I'm afraid not, but you can easily replicate the scene layouts after. ua-cam.com/video/5jE00vkcZ6Y/v-deo.html
Did you use this software to remove you background ..........you have a pefect greenscreen affect going on?
I recorded and edited this entirely in Camtasia. It’s not perfect but pretty good. Thank you!
this doesn't appear to be valid on the current version - I know previously you could show 2 people in a vertical piece, one on top of the other and now there is no template for that. And I cannot figure out how to preload them as you say above....
This video is for the new Storyboard version. If you assemble your sequence like shown in the video, you can then create a composition from it and stack the videos any way you like. You don't need a template, just change the aspect ratio of your composition from horizontal to vertical and re-arrange the layers.
This all looks easy on this video. When I do this, Descript assigns scenes in random places and I have to go through the whole thing and set up the scenes by hand. Descript transcripts can be so bad and this scene assignment can be so bad too.
I would guess that the speakers are not identified or assigned correctly. When you choose to automatically create scenes by active speaker, Descript doesn’t look at the audio, but the speaker assignments. If they are off, the scenes will be off.
@@Graphicious I am not sure it is that. You should see how my files transcribe. They are a hot mess.
Well, yeah, if the transcription is messed up, everything you do from that point onwards that is based on transcription, will also be a mess.
@@Graphicious I have learned that it works more cleanly when I download from Squadcast and upload to descript versus send the file directly from Squadcast to descript.
@thespiritualforumpodcast Agreed
Has Descript added the feature you reference near the end of the video where we can link an audio file to a video file for the active speaker?
No but there is a hack you can try. Have the video track directly on top of the audio track for each speaker and it should switch to it.
@@Graphicious Thanks.
Welcome! Hope that worked.
What if you cross talk?
Have a look at this video: How to Remove Crosstalk in Descript
ua-cam.com/video/KILZqDPIxCw/v-deo.html
So glad that Johnnie Ray on Facebook directed me to your channel Cristi. I'm not even using Descript at the moment, but follow your wonderful advice on Facebook. Great to have access here to your stellar tips.
Awesome! Thank you! Glad you find it helpful and ... welcome!