Editing

Knowing how to communicate with your sound designer is extremely important, and not just because their time is your money. Here's how to make sure both of you bring your A-game to the project.

Creating a structure for how you review, organize, categorize, and build a solid narrative with your footage is essential for the story (and your sanity) to be the best it can possibly be.

Narrative structure is the order of setup, conflict, and resolution that keeps viewers watching. Learn the frameworks and edit your story in Descript.

We talked to a composer and audio engineer about how to find the right composer for you — and how to end up with a collaboration that hits the right note for everyone involved.

Adding sound effects to a podcast sharpens transitions and mood when you use them sparingly. Learn the approach, then place and mix effects in Descript.

When we make podcasts and videos, we have the opportunity to literally give voice to all kinds of diversity — so why do we so often edit to a standard that doesn’t reflect the way people actually speak?