Descript

Pros: Liked the AI Voiceover, and the whole recording experience. The webapp is simple to use and learning curve is comparatively less. Making your own AI voice as well working pretty well.

Cons: AI Avatar generation is pretty bad. Unlike AI voice, avatar feels very basic. Descript misses couple of important feature like Zoom in while recording - i don't a how a recording tool can miss that out.

Pros: Descript is easy to use for recording and basic editing, and the workflow is convenient when everything works. The web app makes it simple to access projects without installing heavy software, and the built-in tools for transcription and quick edits can save time.

Cons: Reliability and support follow-through. Projects edited months earlier appeared as raw recordings later, with missing cuts and effects. Support could not recover the edits and did not clearly explain why affected projects had backup files while truly raw projects did not. The response felt dismissive.

Pros: I appreciate how you can upload a full video on the descipt platform and it takes the best video clips for you. Descript saves you time on editing and is user friendly. No more long hours wasted on editing. It is a platform for beginners who are learning to edit. Great at transcriptions and removing filler words.

Cons: I find that if you have larger files it may take longer to edit and may slow performance on your chrome book or an older computer. It depends what type of desktop your using. If you can afford the higher tiers they have great features.

Pros: Descript has simplified video editing for me by a landslide! I no longer spend my time analyzing frame after frame, decoding what is said, and creating manual captions. The use of AI in this instance is constructive!

Cons: I think I wish there were more caption designs for the videos that I edit -- just to switch up the appearance.

Pros: Descript USED to be my favourite tool for screen recordings and voice overs. The previous version (about a year ago) was reliable, easy to use, and had all the features to expedite workflow in going from a raw screen recording to a polished video.

Cons: The current software is unusable. The most significant issues are in corrupted and failed recordings. Short segments (roughly a word or two in length) are randomly dropped at multiple points in a recording, and in other cases the recording stops (without warning) midway through. More generally, where once the editor was slick and responsive, it has become glitchy and laggy. It does not accurately show the video in the timeline (so it is not synced with the audio, making edits almost impossible). My last few recordings I tried multiple times, but each one had major errors and I finally gave up, cancelled my subscription, and moved onto other software tools.

Pros: The ability to edit by removing words and chunks from the transcript is superb - it really makes editing a breeze for a complete amateur (like me). I also like how I can add images, notes, titles and so on to the video either on top of the recording or by insertion. The captions function is great, and surprisingly accurate.

Cons: I'm an amateur editor (I use it to create training courses in the main) so I'm not sure what I'm missing, but really there's nothing I would immediately change. It's great.

Pros: The Ui/Ux is very clean and intuitive. A lot of products on the market are very cluttered and confusing but descript isn't. I also like the built in dark mode because if you are editing a lot its easier on the eyes.

Cons: The way to batch export is redundant. It should be simpler and easier to clip up a long form piece of work and simply export all clips, all audios etc in one simple clip. The delineation between markers, compositions, sequences etc is confusing.

Pros: I like the idea of this program. On paper it seems very helpful. The text based editing helps me map out my episodes and some of the tools help me repurpose clips and stuff.

Cons: There are far too many bugs for it to be useful. I'm not exaggerating when i say that i have to deal with multiple BIG problems every day. I've gotten maybe a quarter of the work done that i've needed to. This software's performance is just terrible.

Pros: In-line editor works okay. Highlighting to create scenes is a feature I’m glad they have. Export to google docs is a + for speed.

Cons: -Classic money capture play. Calling it “seats” might make you think you’re Salesforce, but you’re target market is mainly one man or woman shows trying to learn. Licking people up for a year doesn’t sold your problem of achieving consistently growing ARR, having the best product for your target market does that. -Bait and switch on features for Hobbyist necessitates upgrade to higher price tier level for feature that should be built in. Money trap, then bait and switch. -No export into reel format video; means to do this you have to stretch and lose video quality.

Pros: Extremely user friendly. I was able to get started editing audio files immediately. This software is so easy to use and really speeds up the editing process.

Cons: It's cloud based, so you can't use it without internet access. While it's very easy to use, it lacks some of the features that come with more complex systems (i.e. complex audio processing options, like equalizers and advanced effects)

Pros: I use Descript for screen recording software demos. The speech-to-text transcript functionality is excellent. The video can be edited side-by-side with the transcript editor. If you remove or correct parts of the text, the video is synced. Auto-cleanup of vocal disfluencies or hesitations ensures a clean and professional-sounding end result. Finally, I use the transcribed talk track for auto-generating subtitles, and I share it with co-workers as input for written content.

Cons: Processing of a video takes a long time. It requires a lot of computational resources and somewhat undoes the time savings of recording. The U.I. takes some time to figure out when you are new to Descript.

Pros: Descript makes it easy to communicate with our production team for edits, pulling of soundbites, etc. It's also nice that it is its own app with storage due to the size of most files.

Cons: Combining multiple files from one podcast for editing is a little strenuous.

Pros: What's not to like about this software. It's incredibly powerful, but also intuitive and easy to use. There are plenty of training resources and even for a novice it's not out of the question to hit the ground running on day one!

Cons: Not much to dislike. This software is amazing. On a couple rare occasions I had issues with my video and audio being out of sync, but that was easy to correct.

Pros: I like the text based editing feature. The AI tools are good as well.

Cons: The pricing is a little high. I have to spend too much time cleaning up the transcript between transcript errors and Speaker labels, If those worked well, I could greatly reduce the time it takes me to get a podcast ready to publish.

Pros: The main reason we use Descript is to transcribe meetings. It takes just a few minutes to transcribe an hour long meeting, and it saves us the time of doing it ourselves with a human. We can then easily reference the meeting later when we need to create content based on what was said in the meeting.

Cons: Nothing so far. I haven't used all the features, and although it's primarily used for podcasts and videos, we haven't yet used all of these features at our company. For transcribing meetings though, it's been a life saver.

Pros: The ability to record and transcribe how-to videos in real time with ease

Cons: Nothing so far. Just started using it recently but it's been a really great tool that's been added for us across the company

Pros: Because it's text based, Descript makes editing video and audio easy, especially when working with complex or long files.

Cons: Because it's text based, muting background noise or other minor things that would be easy in a different editor are difficult.

Pros: Ease of use, edit video like a text document, AI features

Cons: The initial learning curve. It's such a powerful platform that it will always take a little getting used to. The How To content is awesome and really helpful

Pros: We use descript for two things: audio transcription (sometimes many hours a month) and for text based video and audio editing for staff who are less tech savvy. It works beautifully for both things.

Cons: I get so frustrated with the CONSTANT moving around of features and the sunsetting of classic might even make us switch projects. The editing aspect especially, we use it because it makes sense for folks who are more word (rather than visually) focused and for less tech savvy employees who just need to take out a word here or there or trim a video. The constant messing around with the environment confuses folks!

Pros: Really love how easy it is to edit audio and video with text. Searching for specific phrases or moments via text instead of scrolling and trying to find it saves so much time!

Cons: The audio mixing features are still a bit lacking in my mind, especially if you get into a more complicated composition. But I work around by mixing and exporting audio in Pro Tools and dragging it in for the edit and music!

Pros: I was able to get a transcript of my audio recordings in just a few

Cons: I found it difficult to cut, paste, and adjust the volume of my audio files.

Pros: Editing and text to speech, the voice are realistic enough to be used with sounding robotic

Cons: Nothing, I like everything about it plus it is regularly updated

Pros: I love the studio sound feature that can turn my echo filled and mediocre audio into amazing audio. It also puts silence between the words spoken which makes it easier to cut and edit audio.

Cons: I've had a few issues with the studio sound process slowing down significantly the more I use it in a single setting.