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1. Why you need this masterclass!: You've ever wanted to speed up your video creation process, there has never been a
better time with the help of AI to do a lot of the
manual grunt work for you. In my opinion, descript is an absolute leader in
this field right now and has totally changed
the game for us with how we're creating content
for our YouTube channel, and for our paid
membership and courses. To win this master class, I'm going to take you
through the process of efficiently editing
your videos in descript, utilizing their amazing
AI capabilities from basic stuff like removing
filler words like, Rs, Sos, through to having AI actually remove all
of your bad takes, all of your mistakes to really help you speed
up your editing. Also tools to help
make your videos look good and sound better, too, literally with
the click of a button. Now, if we haven't met before,
my name is Justin Brown, and along with my brother Mike, we have built the primal
video YouTube channel to over 1.7 million subscribers, and after years in
professional video production and training our own
video editing team, we've distilled all
the important stuff that you need to
know to be editing your videos fast and easy
with AI in D script. Again, this is the tool
that we're currently using a lot with our YouTube
video creation process from recording directly into Dscript even with the AI tools to help us with editing, too. So in this master class,
you're going to get a clear step by step
walk through of the amazing AI video
editing capabilities inside of DScript and a follow along process for you
to start utilizing these tools immediately for
yourself after this training. So if you're ready to start
streamlining your workflow and using the power
of AI and descript, I'll see you in the next video.
2. Kicking Off: Kicking this off, this is
what you'll see when you first open up a D script, at least in its current form. This thing is changing fast, and this is our third
update on this. So if you are seeing things
in different places, don't stress, all the same
functionality will be there, but you might just be
clicking in different places. But right now this is
the current interface, and they only seem to be
further refining this. So straight at the top, it even now asks you, what
do you want to do? You can upload your files. There's Quick Start things
here to edit videos, create a video with an AI
avatar, social media clips. Even just you want to
get the transcript. You can do all of that here. There's also AI video
makers in here as well. So while the focus of this
training is on AI editing, you can use this to help
you create a video as well. As we scroll down, we'll see
our recent projects here. You can see that we use
this now for all of our YouTube content,
course content. Everything is shot, edited, and even uploaded from
Dscrip, so it's awesome.
3. Project Setup: Making a new project. That is the first thing
that we want to do. I just want to come up here
to New Project down to. We're going to make
a video project. And then we want to give
this project a name. So let's go descript editing. Now, as for setting things like your frame rate, the resolution, all of that stuff
traditionally would be done here when we're getting
our project set. But it's actually done
automatically in descript, which you'll see in
the next step where we go ahead and import our footage. It's going to automatically
detect those things for us. But what I suggest you do here at this step is you come up here to the little menu and
come down here to settings. And I would recommend at
some point you are going through these settings
here to first of, be aware of what's actually
in here so that then you can actually customize things up so that you're getting
the best out of it for you. The other thing that I
would look at here is I'm currently using
the lab's version. So the Beta version, there's unreleased
stuff in here, we've got things like
video regeneration, new timeline, which
has actually been publicly released at the
time of filming this today. Also the new AI video editing features and
things in here, too, which I will run through
in this training around in Beta right now. So if you're someone
who really wants to geek out on this stuff
and make sure that you're trying and testing and using the latest stuff that
you've got access to, then under general here, come down to labs and you
can turn these things on.
4. Importing Footage: Next step then is to import our video footage that
we want to edit down. A few different ways
that we can do this. We can click here
to select a file. We can paste a link here from
YouTube and it's going to download and add that
to our project for us. It's not as good
quality in a lot of cases as uploading
the file yourself. I would recommend that
wherever you can. Also record directly into here. This is exactly how I'm making this training
here as well. So if I press record,
you can see I can record my camera directly in or webcam. I can record the camera and screen, which is what I'm doing. I could just do the audio.
So if you wanted to record a podcast, we can
do that in here, too. Well, there's also the functionality
to record with others. Think of this like a Zoom call for doing the podcast online
with a lot of people. We can do all of that
directly into here, too. Another way that we
can create a video here is with an AI speaker. Again, if you want to have
an AI readout, a script, descript will even help
you write the script, if you want and have an AI
character present it for you. We can do that or there's also direct input from Zoom two. I'm going to click
on this one here. We're going to select
a file and upload it. G to pick here camera recording. Using descript on the website or the installed desktop app, at this point, is
going to be uploading your file to descript servers. So this way, you could jump across to a different
computer or anything you've got a
live backup regardless, it's uploading in the
back end for you. It's also analyzing that clip
that we just picked here. So it says, You transcript will be ready in a few minutes. So it's transcribing
that clip for us. We can choose how many
speakers are in it. I'm going to leave this
here as one because it's just me talking
in this video clip. We can give me a name here. I don't normally bother
with this unless I'm using a clip that has
multiple people speaking. If it's just one person,
I'll just leave it. But then we can
hear it done here. We can see not long after that, we have our transcript
or everything written out here of what was
said in the video. Now, just like traditional
video editing software. This is the future, so I
like to refer to really as anything else right
now as traditional. You do have a timeline
down the bottom here, so you can jump around
in your video here. We've got some
playback controls. There's a play button
that appears here. There is our playback
speed to speed up, slow down our preview. We can add cuts and
things to the timeline. There's the traditional stuff in here, which I
will cover, too. But we can also expand this
up to get more detail. If we drag this up here, you'll see that we can
see our audio waveform, so we can see when
we're speaking or not, which can help you speed up your editing to remove pauses
and all of that stuff. But hey, the focus here is
on AI and video editing. A lot of this stuff
can be automated with just a button click. So
we'll get to that very soon. Over on the side here, we
can access all of our menus, tools, functions, all of
that stuff happens here. So project, we can import stuff, manage the overall projects, backups, all of that stuff. AI tools, scenes,
you get the idea. We're going to cover these
off as we go through. But it does pay to get familiar with where some of these
buttons and things are, the different views that
you can toggle between. Being able to hide
this timeline or drag it right down if you're
not using again, this will make more
sense as we go through. So right now we've
got one primary clip in here, our camera recording. So this is a five
minute 16 video, which you can
download and follow along with his if you'd like. If we wanted to
bring in more files, there's a few different
ways we can do this. The easiest one here is under project and just hit the plus, and then we get those same
import options to upload from our computer or from
Zoom or YouTube.
5. Cutting Down Your Videos (Manual Tools): Best case scenario for
workflow here is that we are editing down our
primary camera footage or our primary video clip or clips that are going to tell the story or
make up the base, the foundation of our video. We want to get that
piece right first, and then we want to bring
in all the extra clips, bells, whistles,
all of that stuff. But that's done as a secondary. So our focus now is on
cutting down and trimming down and removing
all the bits that we don't want from
our primary footage. I'm going to show you both
the manual way to do this and also then the AI tools
that we've got access to because I think there's
definitely use cases for both, and there will be some times
where you still want to dive in and make some
minor adjustments to things to
override what the AI has done because the
AI is fantastic, but it is not 100% perfect. This is going to help you
speed things up dramatically, but it will very rarely, at least in a given stage, give you something 100%. But we can get very close. So for editing stuff
down in D script, there's a couple
of different ways. Let's have a look
at our video here. And if we look at
the script, again, what I've said here, right. We are recording. Let's check
the microphone one, two. Okay, so all this stuff here
clearly is just a test. I'm prepping to shoot. I'm making sure
everything's all good. So we would just
delete that stuff. So I would just
select it here and just press Delete on the
keyboard to remove it. You'll see if I do that, it's totally removed that
from our project. It's gone. It's gone from
our video down here, and it's also gone
from the script. But if I undo that now with Control Z on Windows
or Command E on Mac, if I undo that, what I prefer to do we still
don't want it in there, but I don't like to remove
it from the script. So I like to hit this
little button here, Ignore, which in this case is Command Delete, I'm on a Mac. I'll be Control
delete on Windows. And you'll see if I press this, it's still there, but
it's scratched out. It's grade out. So I like
to add a quick glance. I can see what
we've removed here, and I now know that
if we hit Play on our video, this is
where it starts. You can have the
world's best video. So we have the option
of going through selecting pieces that we
want or don't want in here, and we can strike them out as we could, like
with a Word document. We can pick up chunks of text, so you could select
a chunk here. And you could cut
and paste that. So we can hit the three that all dots here, we can cut it, and we could paste it
somewhere else in our project, and it's going to move that
chunk of footage there. So that's how we can easily edit stuff from the text area, but we can also use
the timeline down here as well for an extra view, if you might prefer
this, but also for extra precision and detail
when you're editing, as well. So if we have a look
at our video here now, you can have the
world's best video. And then this next
paragraph I started again. You can have the
world's best video. It's actually a double up. I wouldn't want to have
two of those in there. So we also want to
remove all of this. So I could just select it all, and you can see by
selecting here, it actually selects
it down here, too, and I could remove
it as I just showed you. Or we can actually make
adjustments down here, too. So if I put my mouse
over this clip here, I can grab the start of
it and I can drag it back to where I want this clip or the video,
in this case, to start. So probably about here. So you'll see now it's
actually done that for us. It's removed that chunk
from the script here, too. So if we hit play now, you could have the
world's best video, but if no one clicks on it,
no one's going to see it. So you need to get your
content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail
strategy is so important. Okay, so we do have then a two second gap
at the end of it. Let's say we want to
remove the two second gap, I can grab this handle here, pull it back to the left, and we've removed that gap, or maybe we want a
little bit of a gap. So we can add a
little bit back in, and we've now got a
slight pause between that and when I
start talking next. Now, let's just
say, for instance, that we wanted to remove
a middle section here. We can also add a cut or
a split in our timeline. So we just move our mouse
to where we want to add a cut and then we've got
our split function here, which is going to cut
out clip at that point. You can see now we
have two clips here. I could select this clip
and delete it if we wanted. Or obviously this is now
an edit point where we can remove a chunk of our
video there, too. Again, this is more
the manual way, but I do still use some of these things to
tighten things up. So at this point, you would
just be going through your script here
using any or all of these methods to
refine the video down so that you're just
left with the story, the key piece of your video without any bad
takes or any of that stuff.
6. Cutting Down Your Videos (AI Tools): Can jump across to the AI
tools that are in here. So there's quite a
few options in here. I'm going to highlight
a few of these things, and then I'm going to show you an automated approach
which is going to speed this up
significantly for you. And that's the piece
that I would say to experiment for you, for your videos to level up. But again, I want
to show you what's possible to build this
workflow for you. In here, if we're looking in this section here, right now, it's under Sound Good and they have changed this recently, we have the ability
to shorten word gaps. So all those pauses and
things that I had throughout, again, it's a five
minute 16 video. We can see some of the pauses, 7 seconds, 4 seconds, 2 seconds. If we hit this one here,
shorten word gaps, we can see it detected
all of these here for us every time there
was a pause in the video. And we can specify what
that actually looks like. So right now it's finding
gaps more than 1 second, and we have the ability here to remove them all or
to shorten them all to 0.3 seconds, pretty solid. Maybe I would refine
this a little bit. I tend to speak pretty quick, and the pacing on
our YouTube videos we try to keep a
little bit punchy. So maybe I'd go gaps more
than half of a second. So anything larger than that, let's shorten down to 0.3 seconds. And let's
go shorten all. It's going to automatically
do that 40 it found. And our video now,
just by removing those gaps is down to
2 minutes, 57 seconds. Amazing. So it hasn't
done the editing piece. We've still got the bad
takes and stuff in here, but already we're working with a much smaller
amount of footage. Less footage means less to edit. So coming back over here
now to the AI tools, there's also one here that
does remove filler words. So it says this removes ms, Rs, repeated words, and
other verbal clutter. Awesome. So we click on this, and it's already starting
to highlight them. It hasn't found too many because this is such a short video. But we have the option here
to remove all filler words, or we can pick which
ones that we want. For me, I do tend to start a lot of sentences
with the words so. So I would untick this one, and I would hit remove all, and that's gone, and
they're all gone. So you can imagine
how this scales out. If you've got longer
videos, longer recordings, maybe you're just leaving
the camera recording for a while while you're
doing something else because it's easier than maybe forgetting to hit record again. If you stop it, we can remove all of that
stuff really, really quick. So back over here
under the AI tool, there's also an option
here to remove retakes, and this one is really powerful. It says, Get to the good stuff, cut all but your best takes. We can hit Submit on this, and their AI
underlord is going to suggest things to remove from the script,
which is amazing. So if we have a
look at this now, we can see all the
things that it has actually cropped out for us. Now, obviously, we
can undo and we can check and change
and all of this stuff, but it does a pretty good job. There is a tool that they
have that does a better job, but this already does
a pretty good job. So even if we look at
this paragraph here. So, to help you with this, you need to make, and
then I start again. So to help you with this,
you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's
attention, right? So it's removed this
first mistake here, and it's left the second one. If we keep reading down, your thumbnail image
also needs to be related or relevant,
I'll do that again. And we'll go all the
way through to here. To the last take, Your thumbnail
image also needs to be. So this is automatically
done that for us. So the piece that I will be
doing now after running this is I will be hitting play here and going through
and just reviewing it. But I like that this didn't delete it from our script again. We can still see the pieces that it's removed or it's
suggesting we remove, and we can bring them back in
case there's any problems. So let's just say, for example, that we did actually
want this piece here in that I could select it, and I could hit that same button and it's
going to bring it back. So now that piece is
back in the video. So when we're reviewing
these AI changes here for this remove retakes, you can see that
there's 17 suggestions. Normally, at this
point, I would just hit done and approve them all. But you could actually read
them all through here, but I find that that's
actually a little clunky instead of just
approving them all, hit done so then we
can go through and play through and make any tweaks or adjustments
that we need. So just looking at this now, maybe I'll remove this
one here because we still didn't want this piece
in here hide that again. But you can see our video now in really just
a couple of clicks, we're down to 1
minute 38.9 seconds. Is it perfect at this point? No, but we're getting
pretty close. So these are the
manual tools here, shorten word gaps, remove
retakes, remove filler words. But there is also this
one up the top here, and I save this one till the second last. This
edit for clarity. So this does the
remove filler words, the digressions, the bladder. It really makes all the
obvious cuts for you. Again, it does a
pretty good job, but if we just click
on this, obviously, we've still got some edits
and stuff made here, you'll see that we don't have the level of control that we had by clicking each of those things manually,
like I did first. So I can just go here. What intensity do
we want to have? Low, medium, heavy or
somewhere in between. We hit submit, and it goes and
does those things for you. Again, it's pretty
good in that you should test it to see how
it works for your videos. But personally,
what I found works better in this case is to run these here separately so that we're able to give
it that extra context, cut from 1 second down to
0.2 seconds for a pause. I think that's really
the next level on this and still super quick. But the piece that is
the most exciting here, for those of you that
have used anything like chat, GPT, Gemini, Claude, any of
those things where we're able to prompt
to get a result, there is actually their
AI underlord here. This is feature out in Beta. Again, you'll need to enable
that up here right now under Settings and then down here to the Underld Beta. You
can see I have that on. The time you're watching this, it might already be
out for everyone. But we come down here
to underload and we can actually give it a prompt
of what we want to do. So it's important that you understand what
this thing can do, which is where it
can action all of these types of AI tools
and things up here. So now that you know
what's possible, we can know what
we want to ask it. Okay, so we're back in our
full five minute 16 clip. Let's come down here to Underld and it tells us here tell Underlord what you want to make, ask anything, see what happens. So what I found works well here. If you have no idea
what you want, then I'd start off with some of those AI tools that
we just touched on. So you could tell it to remove all the gaps to remove all the bad takes and
all of that kind of stuff. A very simple prompt can get you still pretty
far in this case. But this here is a preset
that we are working with right now that
we've tailored up for our specific YouTube videos. I share this with
you as an example, and I'll put this in the show notes or the
descriptions for this. But this is what I'm
prompting it to do right now. So please perform the following
task to edit this video. One, remove, again,
set to ignore, scratch it out, but don't totally remove it
from the text here. Filler words, except the word
so because I start a lot of sentences with the
word so only when they don't flow
naturally in a sentence. Step two, remove, again, set to ignore all gaps and pauses greater than 1
second and shorten to 0.2. And then step three, remove, set to ignore all bad
takes and mistakes. Now, this is a
really critical one. Strictly, do not cut
sentences in half. Where there is a mistake,
a double up or a retake, I want you to only use the final take or
attempt in its entirety. The last take will always be the best one and the one I
would like you to use. So that is what we are doing. We're copying and pasting this
into the AI underld here. Let's hit Paste,
and we submit that. That's listed out
the three requests, and it's doing this for us. So, I guess, the idea
with this would be is that you're building
out a prompt like this, so you don't have to manually
click on each thing. You're working out what
works for in general, the bulk of your video content you're creating, the
vibe, the feeling, how you like things edited, and you're able to give
this underld guidance or instructions as if
you were instructing a real video editor sitting with you what you would
like them to do. As requested, all edits
have been completed. So filler words
except so are done. Yep, the script now
reads smoothly, is concise and only includes
the best complete takes. If you'd like to review, further refine, or add
any changes, let me know. Okay, let's take a
look. So straight out, our script here, it's removed all of that stuff at the start. It's even removed
this extra piece. Okay, I think that was better. It's removed all of
these double ups, so to help you with
this, so to help you with this. Pretty amazing. And so the time for this now, the video is 58
seconds or 59 seconds. All from one prompt. So we could literally
just open descript, import our footage,
run this prompt, and they're going to get
pretty close if you've shot it like this where the last
take is the best take, and then we can work on
making it look good, too. So you can see this
has done a great job. Maybe just play
some of this here. But to help you with this,
you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are
grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform
you're posting them on. Your thumbnail image
also needs to be related to your video content. So best case scenario, if someone sees your
thumbnail image, they can work out exactly
what your video is about, and if it's for them, just
from looking pretty amazing, but I'm yet to see
any mistakes in this. In terms of a base edit on this, there's
nothing I would change. It's done an amazing job of removing all the bad
takes, all the mistakes, and it's taken us
some work to get to that prompt that I just shared with you, trying
different things. So I would encourage you, again, to build out your
own prompt over time with yeah, testing this stuff.
7. Adding B Roll & Stock Footage: Next step then is to bring in
any B roll or overlay clip, stuff that we want
to show on top of the spoken piece
here, in this case. So we can come back over
here to our project. We can hit the plus
to go and find these files if you've got any on your computer that
you want to bring in. But there is also a stock image, video, music library built
into Dscript as well. If you come down here to stock, you can see we've got
videos, there's gifts, images, stickers,
backgrounds, obviously, we can search all
through this as well. So for the purposes
of this training, let's just pick Actually, let's just go a snowboard clip. Absolutely not related to the video at all. They
just look kind of. Alright, let's grab
this one here. If we click on it,
you see that's already importing
into our scene. It is adding, in this case, to the start of our video. So we can see if we come
back here and play this now. You could have the
world's best video, but if no one clicks on it. So we're still hearing
me speak under this, but we've now got this
overlaid on top of it. And you can see that
as its own clip down here in the timeline, again, which we can expand out. But it's also a
totally separate clip, meaning that up here, we can pick it up, we
can move it around. You can still see the
other footage here behind. We have the ability to change the position with
some presets in here, if you want it in the
top left, bottom right, any of that stuff here, you can see we can also change
the shape of it. So we can come over here
to shape and make it a portrait version if we want. We can pick it up,
scale it round, move it, do all of that stuff. We can really dial in to look and feel of the
video we want here. Likewise, if you want to
go back to full screen, we can choose fit scene editor, and it's going to scale
that back up for us. Now, in terms of actually
editing this piece, we do that in the timeline. So if we don't want to on screen the entire time, we
can trim it down. If we want to remove the end, or we want to maybe trim
off some at the start if it took too long to actually get to the bit we
wanted to show. Can do all of that down
here in the timeline. So all these same tools
and functions and stuff work on any
clip down here. Like, we could even add a
split in it if we wanted to. So we've now got two versions
or two halves of that clip. So we can easily go
through and bring in our own B Roll footage here or obviously access it like we have from the stock library.
8. Adding Scenes: One big difference, I guess, with descript and the
way that it edits, and I guess some of the
power behind it, too, versus traditional
editing software is while we do have our clips
down here in the timeline, there's also a different
way that descript works, and they call it scenes. So a scene can have a different
look, a different view, a different layout
applied to it, and we can easily switch between these things while our
video is playing as well. This is also going to
give us more control over things like adding
our B role, as well. So if we come back
up to the top here, you can see we've got
this little icon here. This little picture
represents a scene. So right now, that's
the only one in here, which means that everything has that same look or same settings and
everything applied to it. Now, obviously, down here, we did actually add in
our B roll as well, so that's the only
change to this. But if I go ahead and
make a scene here, I'll show you what this does and really the
power behind it. Because if you
understand this piece, this is really going
to take things to the next level in terms of what you can do
in here creatively. So for this, let's come back
to the start of our video, and we've got here you could
have the World's Bst video, but if no one clicks on
it, no one's going to see. All right, so let's
just say here, we wanted to zoom in on
me halfway through this. You could have the
world's best video. Let's zoom in at that point. So I can just click
here where I want it to start or I can find that
place in our timeline here. We can either hit
the plus button here to add a new scene. Well, what I like
to do is just press the forward slash
key on the keyboard, and that's going to
do the same thing. So straight out now, it
doesn't look like much has changed except we
have this little icon here in our timeline. But now anything that
happens from here on is happening in
this new scene. Any settings that change now are applied to this scene and
not the one before it. So let's say in
this scene that I'm currently on here because our cursor here is to
the right of this, think again, like
a Word document or we can just click on
this to select it as well, and make sure that
we're in that scene. And then let's just say that
I wanted to scale this up. Let's select it here. I'll just drag it up a bit, maybe try to keep our eyes in
the same sort of position. So if I just go ahead and let's play this now from the start. You could have the
world's best video, but if no one clicks. Okay, so we jump to our
B R here pretty quick. Maybe we'll move this down
a bit in our timeline. But you can see that
this was the first shot. Now we get to this
point, it changes to our settings for the
next, and it actually, by default, applied
a smooth transition between the two. Let's
check that out again. So to help you with come
back. Let's try that again. World's Best video,
but if no one clicks. It's very subtle, but it
looks really professional. Now, you can do things
like turn on and off that transition between if
we select the clip up here, we've got our transition button. And the default here is
just for smart transitions. But we can remove that if we
just want it as a hard cut. So the idea really
is you would add a scene where you want
something to change. So while we did bring in
our B roll and while you definitely can bring in your
B roll clips like this, you also have the ability
to come down here and say, Let's just mark
out a scene here. So let's start a
scene at this point, and let's end a
scene at this point. So best case scenario if someone sees your thumbnail
image, right. So now we have this scene. We're in between this, which means that we're
in this scene now, scene three here, and let's just find a clip
that might match that. Okay, so YouTube and let's
maybe try this one here. Someone browsing on YouTube. If we drag that into our
project now, then by default, if that is long enough clip, is now going to be cropped
to fit inside of that scene. So if we play this scene now, we'll start just before it
related to your video content. So best case scenario, if someone sees your
thumbnail image, they can work out exact so it's automatically doing this here for us based on these scenes. So this is where if I wanted
to go through and add in any transitions or effects
or anything like that, I would be doing
that with scenes, especially for something
that I didn't want to apply to the entire video. Now, the other really
powerful thing about the scenes is that you can
actually have presets, so they call them
layouts in here. So let's create a couple
more scenes down here. Maybe we'll do
this section here. Let's mark that
as its own scene. And then for this scene, you can see right now
it's camera angle of me. We can change the layout to
some of the presets in here. So under camera,
if we go two more, then there are some
different looks that if we want this look, we could just click on
that, and that's going to be applied to this scene. So if you undo that and
come back here now, you can see that there's all
different types of ones. There's screen share ones
where it be full screen, your computer screen
and you may be down in the bottom corner or 50 50 screen split,
you and someone else. Now, what I love about this with the different scenes and stuff here is you can create your own. If there's things or
looks that you like to have in your videos and you like to switch
back and forth. Again, this is how we're
editing this exact video with me on camera in
sections and not in others, we're using layouts for these, and I'm just switching
between them. So a little bit of
inception for you. But yes, you can make your own. You're not just limited to
the ones that are in here. But already, there's quite a lot in here for you to choose from. Even some like bringing in text and titles and
things as well.
9. Adding Titles & Captions: We did want to add text or
titles into this scene here, then we could just
pick a layout that has a title look that we'd
like to then customize up. So there's some
full screen titles. There's some again with
a 50 50 screen split, me on one side,
text on the other, so we can use layouts for that. Or we can come over
here to elements. And then in here we've got text elements that we can add in. So I'm going to
pick a title here. And you can see that because
we're adding it into a scene because we made
our scenes before, that title by default is sized to fit at
that entire scene. So it runs for the
same length of time as that scene. But
we can override it. If we don't want it
on there as long, then we can shorten
that up if we want to pick it up and
move it or even into different scenes anywhere in this timeline, we can
do all of that, too. So, again, this is
that mix of using some of the AI and some of the
auto help stuff in here, like with scenes, and
then the manual piece to override to customize
it up to make it yours. But if I double
click on this here, now we can edit this text
that make it a bit smaller, and we can just click on it. It's its own thing
that we can pick up and we can move around. We can adjust for the style, the color, all of
that stuff in here. There's also different
effects like blur, shadow that we can
add on here as well. And we also have the ability to animate our text
in here as well. So we want to add an
animation when this comes into the scene or onto the
video, then we can add those. Let's just go spin just
so we can see something. Bold. Bold. Okay, so there's a
little preview there. If we want it to go for
longer, 1.2 seconds. Bold text, maybe
You got the idea. Now, in terms of the text
and how AI comes into play, well, descript here already knows exactly what's
been said in the video. It has the full transcript
that we've now edited down. We do have the ability to
overwrite and make any changes. So if there was something
in here that was spelled wrong or auto detected wrong, we can make changes to that. You can edit this.
You can correct it here so that it's accurate. But we can then
use this to create AI generated captions or
text on your video as well. So in terms of
converting all of this over into captions
and text on screen, there is a dedicated area here, captions that we can select on. Again, there's so many
different presets and looks and different types of text
that we can add on here. This one's a one word. This one here brings
on one word at a time. So there's lots of different
preset templates, again, that we can use or we can customize them up and
make them ours as well. So we could go this one
here, bold, italic green. And let's just play
this section here. Oh, if someone sees
your thumbnail image, they can work out
exactly what your video is about and if it's obviously, all of this, we can customize. Let's say we want a bigger, we want multi line, in this case. Let's say we want
a larger fonts, and that's now then the
preset for the entire video. And if it's for them, just from looking at that.
Pretty amazing.
10. Applying Effects: We're going to dive into
some of the effects, and there are quite
a lot in D script. There are really
under two key areas. There's effects and
settings and things for a specific clip that you have in your project or in
your timeline here. But there's also
just some general AI effects that you
can apply as well. So if I select my primary
camera clip here, I'm back at the
start of our video. Then I do have an option
here for effects, and we can see
straightaway there's only one option here
for a shadow on or off, but we can choose Add effects. So there's a bunch of others that we can access in here, too. We can also access things
here under layer as well. So those visual effects
can all be applied to that video
layer. Video track. So we've got things in
here like speed control. If you want to speed up
or slow down a clip, we can adjust this here. Let's go ahead and
dive into some of these other ones
here, visual effects. Let's choose blur
speaker background. So we click on this. It's going to go through.
It's going to analyze what's happening in
this video here. And you see really quickly, it's almost cut me out
of the background, and it blurred the background and then put me back on top. We can customize this up here and choose the
amount of blur. So we could go crazy and that looks I don't know why people have that on
some of their Zoom calls, where it's just so blurred. Let's dial it back
a bit. You can see that this is with it off or 1%. There is a little bit of blur already from the
camera that I'm using, but we can dial this up a bit. Maybe something like this. It looks believable. It looks more professional with that light bit of blur there, but it's not over the top
that it looks really fake. So we can easily do that, again, on a scene by scene basis because we have
these scenes made. So it's currently on this now, but it's not on the next scene. But if we do want to apply these things to multiple scenes, and when we select something,
we can choose here. Let's select this in all scenes, and anything we apply then is going to apply to
the entire project. So that's blur the background, but we also have
the ability in here to remove the
background, as well. Let's go to this scene. Come down here to visual
effects with the plus. Let's choose green screen. Again, very, very fast. It's removed the
background there for us. So I'm now cut out. And
this is done in real time. If I hear play, this is going to play with no
background. Clicks on it. No one's going to see it. So we can then scale
it up, move it down. We can put something
in the background or if you're showing
something on screen, we can do all of that really, really easily. I'll show you. Let's grab stock. Let's go back out of this.
Let's just grab an image. Instead of a video file, we could definitely
use a video file. But there's some
backgrounds here. So maybe would choose this one. That's downloaded it,
import it into our video, and this scene now has me here with this other
background behind it. You see just how fast
and easy this stuff is. If we come back up
here to AITols, there's also things
I've been able to generate an AI
image where we can describe what we
want and descript AI is going to go and make
that image for us. If we go back out of this now there's a crazy eye contact. Tool where it's
going to move your eyes so that you're looking at the camera instead
of off camera. I'll actually show you
this one. I'll import another clip here test
clip that I have. Let's go to project, and
I'll add this clip in. Okay, so that's import
it into our project. I'm just going to
put it down the end here so it's out of the way. Let's just take a look at this. Test video where I'm
looking at myself on the screen instead of over
here at the camera lens. Right, so I'm not making eye
contact through this at all. Let's select this clip. Let's go to AI tools, and let's choose eye contact. You'll see this change
here really quickly. Right. I'm now looking
directly at the camera lens. So if I turn this on and
off, not looking, looking, not looking, looking, and it's pretty I'm
even blinking in here. Video where I'm
looking at myself on the screen instead of over
here at the camera lens. So some of these AI
tools are just crazy that now we can create eye
contact with our viewers, even if we didn't record
our videos that way. Now I've got this
clip here, as well, another amazing AI
effect is studio sound, which will help your
clip sound better. So if we just play this again so you're hearing how bad
this audio really was, a test video where I'm looking
at myself on the screen. Okay, now let's go
ahead and apply this studio sound to it. So this adjusts
the volume levels. It adjusts equalizes and all kinds of stuff
to remove echo, background noise, make
it sound like you were recording in a
recording studio. Then now let's listen to this. Screen instead of over
here at the camera lens. Pretty awesome. And I'll
do another preview. This is with it enabled. A test video rhyme looking
at myself on the screen. And let's turn it off and play. A test video rhyme looking
at myself on the screen. So we're, again, using this for all of our YouTube
videos as well, and even this training, too. But I normally don't
leave it just as default. If I select that clip again and come down here to studio
sound. Let's turn it on. In here, I'd normally
dial it back. Depending on how
bad the audio is, I normally find 50-70% sounds pretty good
and not so robotic. But if you've got
really bad footage and a lot of windy stuff that
you're trying to remove, then maybe you want to bump that up a bit higher, closer to 100.
11. Adding Music & SFX: We can bring in any
music or sound effects into our project here. So we can come up
here to project. We can hit the little
plus button here. We can navigate through,
find any music files, sound effect files on our computer that we
want to bring in, and then we can
drag them down into our project as if they
were a video file. Or we can jump to
the stock area here, and we've got music and stuff in here as
well under audio. You can see music, sound
effects. There's a lot in here. We can search for stuff
as well for copyright. And for purposes
of this training, I'm just going to grab
one of these here, and I'm just going
to hit the plus, and that's going to add it
down here into my project. So we can see that's
come in here as green. Now, because I didn't click at the start of my video
when I brought this in, it's bought it in at that
scene or at that marker. So we can pick this clip up
as we would any other clip we can drag it back to the start or wherever
we want it in there, and we can then also adjust
the end time on this as well. So it's the green one here.
Let's stretch this out so that it runs for the length
of our video. There we go. Depending on how much
screen size you've got, we can make this bigger
or smaller, too. Actually, in this
case, let's remove these test clips I had in here. So our video finishes
where it's supposed to. Now, while we're on the
music track here as well, same will work for
sound effects, too, you can see that I've
got this little circle here. If I click and drag
this back to the left, then that's going to add
a fade out at the end. That's going to lower our volume from that point down to zero. We also have the
ability at the start. If we want to fade
our music track in, we've got that same
option there, too. We've got the same editing
functionality where if we want to trim off the
start, we can adjust that. We can use the split here to split out a section
if we wanted to. It's all very cohesive in terms of the tools that
we're going to access. We do also have the ability
to access the underlord, the AI piece in here for
a lot of this stuff, too. If you didn't have a
specific music track, you could ask it here to add in a music track for you from
its stock music library. And you could even
maybe describe the type of music
that it would like. It will automatically bring
that into your project. For you. For me, personally, I love the AI piece for
editing the way that I've showed you earlier
in this training for bringing in music and stuff, I don't think it's
quite there yet. Again, it is out in Beta. They're still working
the bugs out. I'd personally much rather
pick a music track than just have it pick
something at this point. But once you've got music in, this is where we
look at adjusting your volume level so
that everything sounds good and music isn't too loud or your spoken piece
isn't too quiet. This is something that D script
does really, really well. That it's automatically
analyzing stuff for you the moment
you're bringing stuff in, and it's doing a really good job of adjusting things for you. So let me hit play on this now. Of the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it,
no one's going to see it. So, for me, it's probably
a little loud to where I would personally have it,
but it's really not bad. It's not overpowering. It's not drowning out what I'm saying. So I love that that's happened automatically without
us doing anything. But in order for us to
adjust the volume levels, I'm just going to pick,
again, start at the start, pick our first clip here. Then we can come
over here to lay so we're looking at the
effects for this layer, and you can see that we have volume level adjustment here. So I'd like to get the
volume level right on our spoken piece first,
which again, descript. I've never really had to
make any changes because its default is already analyzing
and adjusting for that. But if you do need to increase
the volume or lower it, we can do it with
this slider here. So once we've got your
spoken piece right first, then I come to the music track, and we want to do
the same thing. So go to layer for that and you've got your
volume slider here. If we do actually click
this three dots here, you'll see that it has
been adjusted down to 17.4% automatically for us. So if you wanted to
lower that even more, we can drop that down further.
12. Adjusting Color: Now is where we will
adjust the colors in the video to fix
anything that might have happened during filming that
you didn't quite like or to really adjust the vibe,
the feel of your video. That's all done with
the color correction. So again, I'm going to
select our first clip here. Now, we get the
option when we click on our layer up the top here, we get to choose
we're going to apply these color effects, really, to just this scene so we
can have different looks, different colors for
different scenes, or are we going to apply
these settings to all scenes? I'm going to go here all scenes. Then we're going to come
down here to visual effects, and then we're going to hit
the plus button on this, and then we're going to
add color adjustments. So this is one area I
think I would love to see some AI color adjustments in descript, but not
quite there yet. Let's hit the little
settings button for this, but you can see the different sliders
that we've got access to. Now, I don't want this to be overwhelming at
all, very simply, here's how I would approach it if we start with exposure first, so the brightness,
so you can see, we can obviously make
it brighter or darker. This is all going to be
personal preference. But I'll probably brighten
this up a little bit. Next, I would look at
the color temperature. So down the bottom here, can see currently the default
here is 6,600 Kelvin. If we slide this one way, it's going to be more yellow,
move it the other way. It's going to be
more blue. This is a little clunky, this slider. You can see as I'm
moving a little bit, I'm just jumping between
different numbers. And I do think that probably the best one for this video is probably in between the two. So I'm going to type
in, I don't know, it's 6,400, maybe even 6,500. Okay, subtle, but I think
that looks pretty good. I then look at the contrast. So again, we can move the slides around and see
what each one is going to do, maybe a little bit
more contrast. And then saturation
is the I guess, intensity of the colors. Don't want to go too
overboard like that. Or if we go back the other way, we're pretty much
black and white. So let's maybe boost them a little bit,
something like this. And that's probably how I would leave it for
a video like this. And let's do a quick.
Actually, let's make it bigger so
you can see it. Drag this down. If we go before and after, so this is with it off,
this is with it on. If we turn it off, that
was before, after. So pretty easy to make
some tweaks to that. And again, because we
had all scenes applied, that's now applied to all of those clips in each
of those scenes. But if you do want to
override it for one of them, you can pick a specific scene, and you can add that
adjustment specifically for that or add a second adjustment
to tweak that further. So you want to go through now and adjust the colors in any of the clips in your videos to get them looking
the way that you would
13. Exporting Your Video: Then we can save this out. So when you're
happy with it all, we just want to hit the Export
button in the top corner, and there's quite a
few options in here. If you want to send
a preview link to someone so they can review
it and give you feedback, the default here descript
weblink is really good. You'll just hit Export
and that will give you a little download
link to copy to your clipboard that you can
then email or share out, and someone will be out
to watch your video back and leave comments and stuff
on it. It's really cool. If we change the
destination here, we also have things like
direct upload to YouTube, which as I said,
that's what we're using for our YouTube channel. But there's also local
export here as well, where we can save the
file to your computer. We can then choose
our video resolution. So let's go to the maximum here. You can see we do have
options up to four K. If we're editing a four K video, this is a ten ADP video, so that's our maximum
in this case. We can choose our quality. I'd suggest leaving it on high. And there are more settings
in here if you need to dial something
specifically in for audio. But for most people,
just hitting export at this point
is all you need to do. That'll save out
the video for you. It's also worth noting that for those of you that
do want to take it from here to another
video editing tool, which was a workf
that we used to have when DScript wasn't as
powerful as it is now, we can also export the timeline
to places like Final Cut, Premiere, DaVinci
Resolve, if you want to do another layer of
editing on top of this.
14. Reformatting for different platforms: Also want to show you in here
how we can easily reformat our videos into other
types of content, too. So right now, we have
this widescreen video here, YouTube style. But if we did want to create
a shorter version of this, we could, first
off, I'd recommend duplicating your timeline. Come back up here to Project. Here is our timeline here,
our project in here. We can duplicate
it. And now you can see we have two
versions of this. With this one here,
maybe we'll rename it. Let's call it portrait. But then we can
come over here to this aspect ratio button
and we can change. So there's presets for
a widescreen video. We can presets here
for portrait, square, or we can go to
other, and we can pick a custom size
if we would like. But in this case, let's
just choose portrait, and you can see now our
project is portrait, but we'd have to then go through and manually scale
everything up. So that's not a bad workflow, but hey, we're all
here for the AI stuff. So instead of
manually doing this and setting this yourself,
let's undo that. Let's go back to our
widescreen version. We can come over
here to AI tools, and we can choose
center active speaker. When we press on this,
it gives us the option. Do we just want to
center it within the framing that we already have or do we want to center it, but adjust the ratio,
just the size. So let's pick portrait here. Let's hit Submit. It's
then going to go through. It's going to analyze our clips. You can see that it's
already scaled it up, it's applying different
effects and things in here, but it's working its way
through our timeline here, scaling up our clips so that
it matches this format. Now, this is also
something that we could ask the underlord to do as well, make this video portrait. Or turn this into a Tik Tok style video is
going to do the same thing. So we can see it's made
a portrait version of this that we can
still customize up. So let's say, this text
now is pretty small. Let's scale this up and
make the fonts bigger. So this is now going to work as a short form piece of content. Again, it's one of those
things that is not perfect. You might find there's a few
little bugs and things in there where you might need to manually adjust some things. But overall, it's going
to do a good job. But let's go back to our
widescreen project here, so the original one that we made because under
here under AI tools, if we're looking
at reformatting or repurposing our content
for different things, we can also use the AI tools
in here to create clips, to create a highlight. So think of this like
tools like Opus clip, where it's
automatically going to take your long form video and create shorter
videos from it. This create clips works
really, really well. So give an example of this, this is a 1 hour
15 master class, a YouTube live stream that I ran with a good friend of
ours, James Wedore. And you'll see here
that this is 50, 50 screen split on one side, me on another, and we're covering all sorts
of different topics. What we can do in here, though, is we can come over
here to the AI tools, and let's come down to create
clips. How many clips? Sure, ten, 62nd duration. Yeah, that's about right
for short form content. Obviously, some will
go up to 3 minutes. Now, we can give it insight as to what we want to look for. We can then pick our layout. So if you've gone through
made your own layouts, or you can obviously use these and customize
them up as well, but then we just hit Submit, and its AI is going to
analyze our clip and pull out viral clips or
short form content for us from the longer form one. So it's done now. It
was really quick. You can see it's got
quite a few here. It gives us a title for it. It explains a bit
about the clip. This clip stands out due to its inspirational and
motivational nature directly addressing
a common fear. So there's a bunch of these
here that it's added. So we can choose done now. And these are now
going to show up as separate projects or timelines inside of our bigger project. So let's click on one of
these here to preview this. Okay, it looks like
this is still loading, but you can see,
we've got captions. We've got a gradient added, and it's picked out a section here for us. Let's hit Play. The only mistake you
ever want to truly avoid is the mistake of
deciding to give up. Okay, so that content piece
is going to be absolute gold, but the elephant in the room
here we can't see James. So, you do have the
ability then to jump across those AI
tools I showed earlier to use things like center
active speaker and that we'll reposition the
shot here to show James. Or because we still have all the raw footage and
everything in here, we can easily
customize things up, we can just reposition stuff
and scale things different to how we want it to build out those layouts on
those templates. But we can scale this back
here to the original. And if we wanted to have us
both there, we scale this up, so we're just seeing James, maybe something like this. We can also do the
same with the text. We can change the style, change the font, all of
that stuff here, too. Everyone makes it a bit smaller. And let's enter the
text. There we go. Then we can save this as
a layout and we can apply it to all of these
as we make them too. And this is exactly how
we've generated shorts from this exact master class with James and uploaded them
directly to our channel. That is literally
it. No extra work. So key takeaway with this is to keep an eye on these AI
tools as new ones drop in, know that we can apply them
from the AI tool area here. But we also have this newer
test beta feature here, the underlord where we can prompt it for this
stuff as well, and give it extra context, give it extra settings
and control and stuff around what it is we want to
achieve an outcome faster. So I'm really pumped on this. I'm excited for where this goes, and I wish you all
the best playing with these amazing AI features.
15. Wrapping Up: So wrapping up
this master class, a couple of quick things. If you found this
training valuable, we would really
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Justin Brown, Primal Video
