

Or click on the slash icon to the left of your script. Place your cursor in the script where you want to add a scene boundary.

Add script content (video with spoken audio, or just audio) to your composition - either by importing and transcribing a file, recording your script content directly in the app, or writing your script from scratch using the writing tool.Holding them in your mind will help you understand everything that follows on this page. Getting your head around those concepts is key to video editing in Descript. Scenes work like slides in a presentation tool, like PowerPoint or Keynote. Instead, you’ll use the script and scenes to edit your video. But in Descript, you’re hardly going to touch the timeline.

In tools like iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or Camtasia, you do most of your editing in a timeline. It’s important to note that, to get the most out of Descript, you kind of need to rewire your brain around how scenes work - especially if you’ve worked in other video editors. Please note that scenes are not displayed or use them in compositions set to audio-only. Audio-only compositions do not use scenes
