And now we come to the fearful month of July, its skies filled with bottle-fired rockets and lethal lawn darts. But first, let us take a moment to look back on the halcyon days of June — and all the cool stuff Descript released this month.
And now we come to the fearful month of July, its skies filled with bottle-fired rockets and lethal lawn darts. But first, let us take a moment to look back on the halcyon days of June — and all the cool stuff Descript released this month.
Explore the power of AI image generation in Descript with a new feature that transforms text into images for B-roll, or whatever you want. Find it in Media > Images > Text to Image, describe the image you have in mind, and the AI will generate three options. Unleash your imagination, and get weird if you want — you won’t be disappointed.
Our new Drive invite links allow seamless addition of team members. Generate unique links for editors and basic seats that can be controlled and deactivated by admins or editors as necessary. And for manual approval of all new editors, just activate that setting in the Members section of your drive settings.
Now you can flip videos and images vertically or horizontally in the canvas with a simple click. Just select a layer; you’ll see the new options right next to the crop icon in the canvas toolbar.
By default, you can now freely resize shapes. Before, we retained the aspect ratio. So now, to change a square into a rectangle you just drag its corner in a certain direction. To preserve a shape while resizing, just hold down the shift key.
We've introduced better controls for managing the visual layer order from the timeline. Simply right-click on a layer and select "Layer order" to move it forward or backward, mirroring the functionality in the canvas.This also means that the order of layers in the timeline now reflects the canvas.
Oh, and we also announced a bunch of exciting new features — including AI stuff that makes impossible audio edits possible and keeps your eyes on the camera wherever you’re looking — in our Season 4 event this month. If you haven’t seen the video, check it out or read all about it.
If you’re the type who craves detail, grit, minutiae, get after it in our changelog.
And stay tuned — some very big stuff coming later this summer…
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This post was written by James Shield, senior producer for Stories of Our Times, a daily news podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times of London. It was originally published on his blog and is republished here with permission.
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