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Removing umms and ahhs. That’s it.
In a recent livestream featuring Bryan Entzminger I learned about lots of different functionality within Descript, but when I asked Bryan and Steve Stewart exactly what they were using Descript for, they both said that removing umms and ahhs is the only thing they do there…. mostly because all other Descript functionality is either unnecessary or unreliable.
What do you do in Descript?
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It seems a little too cavalier to just remove all ums and ahh. Our job as editors is to help the dialogue flow with a good pace and sound natural. Sometimes an um or ah just sounds natural and right in it’s context and needs to be kept. I don’t see how using Descript would help in that regard, I need to actually hear every crutch word in context before I take it out.
What Descript IS good for, is for taking out clips. If you need to do a recap of a previous episode, or pull out a specific section for a client or advertiser…it’s really easy to find and pull it out.
That is the only thing I would use it for.
We’ve been using it a lot with clients. In fact, we now use it as our primary “recording tool”. We set up clients with an account and they use it to record all their interviews. This is super helpful because we automatically have their audio as soon as their done recording (no passing files back and forth), we get automatic transcripts (wich clients really like), and a lot of project management features that save us time and streamline our client experience.
We still do all our audio engineering/editing in Audition. But as a client-facing tool, and a recording tool, it has a lot of advantages.
Nothing, any more. The monthly price is just too steep for me. If they had a per minute option, I might use that.