Thank you for making videos like this one that are so well laid out to learn from. Not everyone has the same skills and this helps the rest of us follow and pursue our passion projects!
Thank you! Amazing. I suggest you add some keywords to the description about showing two speakers or one speaker and a slide show from two different video feeds. I searched for that and this did not come up. Luckily in the FB group someone told me that this is called sequences. THANKS
Thank you. That's an interesting suggestion. With sequences in Descript, it's always difficult to know which keywords to use because not everybody searches for the same thing, and it's not immediately obvious what to look for when you're trying to do a multi-camera in Descript.
Hi, so i lost the video in a recording (while using Squadcast), meaning everything taped, but when going to download, the video portion of my interviewee didn't render. So i went into the cloud recording and downloaded it. however, that recording came down as a single recording with both me and my interviewee on the same single track. is there a way to sequence it at this point or am i stuck with a single recording at this point? I hope that made sense. thank you
Thanks! This was a great explainer. One question: if I have a tape sync interview where the two recordings don't start at the same time on the timeline, how do I line up the tracks and get them in sync? Can I line them up properly while they are stacked one above the other? Is it as easy as using the blade or slip tool?
You should be able to stack them in tracks in a sequence and then shift them left or right to sync properly. You can also cut them with the Blade tool and move segments around but make sure you don’t drag one segment over another because it will overwrite it. Also, it’s best to do the aligning before you make any edits in the composition so as not to shift audio under the cuts.
Hi, thanks for a v informative and clarifying video! Descript should hire you! So..Question....Im just about to try my first sequence. I have one video of me recording via my smart phone and mic, and a separate screen recording video with its own mic recording. Both are recordings of me at the same time (same audio but into different mics and one to lap top one recorded to my phone) when I create a sequence in Descript, will the videos and audio automatically sync together? even if both videos are slightly different in length (slightly different start and stop times) Thanks!
Yes, if you add the two videos in Descript, you can sync them up in a sequence but it's not automatic. A lot of people ask about this but Descript will not automatically synchronise the files, you have to do it manually. If you record with Descript, it should put them in the sequence automatically though.
Question, what happens when squad cast send both files to descript but only 1 file is transcribed and in the layer. The second speaker is in the medica files when i click on the second speaker it doesn't give me the option to create sequence just add to script. Also, only 1 speaker was transcribed. Do i need to add the second speaker to the script and then create a sequence? thanks in advance
Thank you for the awesome content and great simple explanations! I am doing a video podcast interview with 3 camera setup - multicam. Main wide angle camera facing both guest and host. Another camera only facing guest. Another camera facing only facing host. In Descript, how can I load all three videos so that at times I am showing the wide angle, then I cut to the host only, and then cut to the guest only? I have a separate audio recording using Rode so the video and audio need to be synced up. Or is it better to do all the video editing with the cut scenes in Final Cut and then export the final video to descript to edit the final video and fix the audio?
You can do what you describe in Descript, with sequences. Just add all the videos AND the audio in a sequence, synchronise them, then mute the videos so that only your clean audio is on. Then you can create a composition from that sequence and each video track will be exposed as a layer. You can turn them on, off, hide them, resize them, switch cameras back and forth using Scenes. This video will help: ua-cam.com/video/5jE00vkcZ6Y/v-deo.html
@@Graphicious when you say "Just add all the videos AND the audio in a sequence, synchronise them" I have to do it manually right? There is no way like in Final Cut for the software to do it automagically right? If the answer is no that cannot happen in Descript, then do you suggest a better workflow us to edit the video, multi cam, audio syncing all in final cut, and then import the edited video into Descript and reimport the high quality audio from Rode mics and then do the final audio finetuning that way? Or do you think there is a better way?
You're right, Descript does not do automatic synchronization in multi-cam sequences like other software does. This alignment has to be manual. But if you only have like 3 or 4 files, that shouldn't take you long. I would still do it in Descript if I only had 2-3 people. You still retain that flexibility of switching cameras, extracting social clips with the correct camera when needed, etc. The only time I go to another software is if I have too many files. Recently, I had a few 'round table' type interviews with 6 people and Descript cannot cope with that many video streams. I did everything in DaVinci -- multi-cam AND a separate cam with grid of all 6 people. Then I exported from there TWO video files. One with the camera changes and one with the grid so I can go in Descript and switch between single person view, to grid view, and back and so on. But I retained flexibility to only show the person view for social clips. I will document the entire workflow in a minicourse I'm doing soon.
I'm having trouble getting my video to sync up to my sound. I have a sync point at the beginning and it matches up for about 15 seconds, then the video gets ahead of the audio. I haven't edited the video in any way, but wondering if it could be FPS I'm recording in, the audio can't keep up? I'm just stumped as to how to fix this.
Edit Interview Podcasts with Descript (complete course): www.udemy.com/course/interview-podcast-editing-with-descript-underlord-a-to-z/?referralCode=C4F9F899D81E17571481
This is an incredible tutorial. I wish I had watched this instead of using trial-and-error tactics. Thanks so much!
Thank you, glad it was helpful. Many beginners get stuck on this feature.
*Your videos are well-detailed and explained. Please keep up the good work. You're deeply appreciated.*
I appreciate that! I will! Make sure you keep an eye on notifications, I'm going to do weekly LIVE shows as well, on Wednesdays!
Thank you for making videos like this one that are so well laid out to learn from. Not everyone has the same skills and this helps the rest of us follow and pursue our passion projects!
You're very welcome! Glad you found it helpful! Feel free to ask any more questions if you find something you're struggling with in Descript.
Very useful and just what I was looking for - thank you!
Great to hear that, thanks!
Helpful. Thank you!
You're very welcome, glad I could help.
Thank you! Amazing. I suggest you add some keywords to the description about showing two speakers or one speaker and a slide show from two different video feeds. I searched for that and this did not come up. Luckily in the FB group someone told me that this is called sequences. THANKS
Thank you. That's an interesting suggestion. With sequences in Descript, it's always difficult to know which keywords to use because not everybody searches for the same thing, and it's not immediately obvious what to look for when you're trying to do a multi-camera in Descript.
Hi, so i lost the video in a recording (while using Squadcast), meaning everything taped, but when going to download, the video portion of my interviewee didn't render. So i went into the cloud recording and downloaded it. however, that recording came down as a single recording with both me and my interviewee on the same single track. is there a way to sequence it at this point or am i stuck with a single recording at this point? I hope that made sense. thank you
Thanks! This was a great explainer. One question: if I have a tape sync interview where the two recordings don't start at the same time on the timeline, how do I line up the tracks and get them in sync? Can I line them up properly while they are stacked one above the other? Is it as easy as using the blade or slip tool?
You should be able to stack them in tracks in a sequence and then shift them left or right to sync properly. You can also cut them with the Blade tool and move segments around but make sure you don’t drag one segment over another because it will overwrite it.
Also, it’s best to do the aligning before you make any edits in the composition so as not to shift audio under the cuts.
@@Graphicious Beautiful. Thank you!
Happy to help.
Cristi, thank you. I owe you a beer, or whatever you like to drink.
Happy to help. I love coffee
Hi, thanks for a v informative and clarifying video! Descript should hire you! So..Question....Im just about to try my first sequence. I have one video of me recording via my smart phone and mic, and a separate screen recording video with its own mic recording. Both are recordings of me at the same time (same audio but into different mics and one to lap top one recorded to my phone) when I create a sequence in Descript, will the videos and audio automatically sync together? even if both videos are slightly different in length (slightly different start and stop times) Thanks!
Yes, if you add the two videos in Descript, you can sync them up in a sequence but it's not automatic. A lot of people ask about this but Descript will not automatically synchronise the files, you have to do it manually. If you record with Descript, it should put them in the sequence automatically though.
Question, what happens when squad cast send both files to descript but only 1 file is transcribed and in the layer. The second speaker is in the medica files when i click on the second speaker it doesn't give me the option to create sequence just add to script. Also, only 1 speaker was transcribed. Do i need to add the second speaker to the script and then create a sequence? thanks in advance
Yes, if for some reason SquadCast did not assemble the project correctly, you have to add the second file to the sequence yourself AND transcribe it.
Thank you for the awesome content and great simple explanations!
I am doing a video podcast interview with 3 camera setup - multicam. Main wide angle camera facing both guest and host. Another camera only facing guest. Another camera facing only facing host. In Descript, how can I load all three videos so that at times I am showing the wide angle, then I cut to the host only, and then cut to the guest only? I have a separate audio recording using Rode so the video and audio need to be synced up.
Or is it better to do all the video editing with the cut scenes in Final Cut and then export the final video to descript to edit the final video and fix the audio?
You can do what you describe in Descript, with sequences. Just add all the videos AND the audio in a sequence, synchronise them, then mute the videos so that only your clean audio is on.
Then you can create a composition from that sequence and each video track will be exposed as a layer. You can turn them on, off, hide them, resize them, switch cameras back and forth using Scenes.
This video will help: ua-cam.com/video/5jE00vkcZ6Y/v-deo.html
@@Graphicious when you say "Just add all the videos AND the audio in a sequence, synchronise them" I have to do it manually right? There is no way like in Final Cut for the software to do it automagically right?
If the answer is no that cannot happen in Descript, then do you suggest a better workflow us to edit the video, multi cam, audio syncing all in final cut, and then import the edited video into Descript and reimport the high quality audio from Rode mics and then do the final audio finetuning that way? Or do you think there is a better way?
You're right, Descript does not do automatic synchronization in multi-cam sequences like other software does. This alignment has to be manual. But if you only have like 3 or 4 files, that shouldn't take you long.
I would still do it in Descript if I only had 2-3 people. You still retain that flexibility of switching cameras, extracting social clips with the correct camera when needed, etc.
The only time I go to another software is if I have too many files. Recently, I had a few 'round table' type interviews with 6 people and Descript cannot cope with that many video streams. I did everything in DaVinci -- multi-cam AND a separate cam with grid of all 6 people. Then I exported from there TWO video files. One with the camera changes and one with the grid so I can go in Descript and switch between single person view, to grid view, and back and so on. But I retained flexibility to only show the person view for social clips.
I will document the entire workflow in a minicourse I'm doing soon.
@@Graphicious Really appreciate this Cristi! You are awesome and a fantastic resource for us! God bless and keep up the great work.
Thanks a lot! Happy to hear it helps someone. :D
I'm having trouble getting my video to sync up to my sound. I have a sync point at the beginning and it matches up for about 15 seconds, then the video gets ahead of the audio. I haven't edited the video in any way, but wondering if it could be FPS I'm recording in, the audio can't keep up? I'm just stumped as to how to fix this.
Sounds like a sync issue with the file, how did you record? Does it suddenly go out of sync or does it drift slowly?