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- Karina Longworth on You Must Remember This (Descript)Karina Longworth made You Must Remember This before narrative history podcasts were a category, which meant no template and no competition.
- 3 tips to get the most out of your podcast's sound designer (Descript)Working with a sound designer goes better when you brief on feeling rather than on specific effects, because they know sounds you do not.
- How to Make a Tutorial Video: Step by Step (Descript)A tutorial video walks through one task from start to finish, which means the scope decision matters more than the production.
- Protecting your intellectual property as a content creator: Tips from an IP lawyer (Descript)Intellectual property for content creators is legal ownership of your original work, including video, audio, scripts, and brand assets, pro…
- Top 11 podcast recording apps and software in 2026 (Descript)Podcast recording software should record each speaker on a separate track and capture locally rather than over the call connection, which i…
- AEO for YouTube: Getting Videos Cited by ChatGPT (Descript)AEO for You Tube means structuring a video so language models can quote it, which is a different job from ranking in You Tube search.
- How to Look Natural on Camera and Sound Like You (Descript)Looking natural on camera comes down to lens height, a reason to look up, and not reading word for word.
- How to Record Lectures: 7 Tips for Usable Recordings (Descript)Finding the one thing you needed in a ninety-minute file is not. Capturing the slides alongside the audio and transcribing the result is wh…
- Best audio extractor tools for 2026 (Descript)Extracting audio from video pulls the sound into its own file, usually MP3 or WAV, without re-encoding the video.
- Best MP4 Compressor Tools for Windows and Mac (Descript)An MP4 compressor cuts file size by lowering bitrate, resolution, or both. Bitrate is the lever to pull first, because dropping resolution…
- Master ChatGPT memory in 2026 (Descript)ChatGPT memory carries context between conversations, so it stops asking what you already told it.
- How to transcribe Zoom meetings: 3 easy ways in 2026 (Descript)Zoom transcribes cloud recordings automatically on paid plans, and local recordings not at all.
- Best video resizer tools: Resize without losing quality in 2026 (Descript)A video resizer changes aspect ratio, which is a framing decision rather than a scaling one.
- Learn to Make a Promo Video and Elevate your Brand Identity (Descript)A promo video is a short marketing clip that spotlights a product, service, or brand to drive interest and action.
- New in Descript: AI-Powered Speaker Labels (Descript)AI speaker labels identify who is talking and tag the transcript automatically, which removes the most tedious part of multi-person transcr…
- How I batched a summer's worth of podcast and YouTube content in 2 weeks with Descript (Descript)Batch content creation front-loads the setup cost so the remaining weeks need only editing and publishing.
- Why Search Is the New Creativity Tool for AI (Descript)Search became a creative tool once models started returning synthesis instead of links. That changes the research step from collecting sour…
- Brand Guidelines: Defining the Look and Feel (Descript)Brand guidelines exist so that people who were not in the room can make consistent decisions.
- Recording Software: 7 Best Video Capture Tools Compared (Descript)Video recording software falls into three buckets: screen capture, camera and webcam capture, and live stream recording.
- New in Descript: Parametric EQ and Progress Bars (Descript)Parametric EQ gives precise control over specific frequency bands rather than fixed presets, which matters for fixing a particular problem…
- Call Recording: Best Apps for Podcast Audio (Descript)Call recording for podcasting captures a remote conversation over the internet, ideally saving each speaker on a separate track for clean e…
- How Long Can Instagram Stories Be? Current Limits (Descript)Instagram Stories run 60 seconds per card, and a longer upload gets split across several automatically.
- How to Record Audio on iPhone Without It Sounding Bad (Descript)The i Phone records usable audio through Voice Memos, and the biggest quality gain comes from turning on lossless in settings and holding t…
- How to Enhance Video Quality: Practical Fixes That Work (Descript)Enhancing video quality means improving the sharpness, color, stability, and audio of footage you already have, both in-camera and in the e…
- Remote audio recording: tools and tips in 2026 (Descript)Remote recording sounds bad when you record the call instead of the people. Each participant recording locally and uploading afterward remo…
- Make Overdub’s Speech Synthesis Even Better With These Tips (Descript)Overdub speech synthesis improves substantially with punctuation, because commas and periods are what the model reads as pacing.
- 7 best Instagram video editor tools for 2026 (free and paid) (Descript)An Instagram video editor has to cover Reels, Stories, and feed posts, which are three different aspect ratios.
- Ready to Get Started with Marketing on Social Media? Here’s What You Need to Know (Descript)Social media marketing starts with picking fewer platforms than feels comfortable, because presence without consistency reads as abandonmen…
- How to Create Private Podcasts for Clients and Teams (Descript)A private podcast is a show delivered only to a specific, authorized audience through a private RSS feed instead of public directories.
- Descript Season 4: Stability, Performance, and AI Additions (Descript)Season 4 was a quality release: fewer crashes, faster performance, and AI additions layered on a more stable base.
- How to Stay Sane While Making Things on Schedule (Descript)Staying sane while publishing on a schedule is mostly about separating the making from the measuring.
- How to use ChatGPT to improve your creative process (Descript)It helps least at the final draft, where the specific choices are the work. Treat it as a fast collaborator with no taste.
- How to Publish a Podcast: Hosting to Distribution (Descript)Publishing a podcast means uploading the episode to a host, which generates an RSS feed that Apple, Spotify, and everyone else read.
- Best Video Summarizer Tools: Compare Top Picks (Descript)Video summarizer tools compress a recording into notes, chapters, or a short abstract. They run on the transcript, so a summary is only eve…
- Podcast Grants: Where to Find Funding for Your Show (Descript)Podcast grants come from arts councils, journalism foundations, and platform-run funds, and most target documentary, local reporting, or un…
- New in Descript: Podcast metadata export, global affiliate program, and more (Descript)This release added podcast metadata export, so chapter markers and episode details travel with the file to your host instead of being re-en…
- How to make a boomerang video (2 methods) in 2026 (Descript)A boomerang plays a short clip forward and then backward on a loop. On i Phone it comes from the Instagram camera or from a Live Photo set…
- 7 best embed video tools for 2026: quick comparison (Descript)Embedding video puts a player from a host onto your own page, which means you inherit that host's branding, load time, and recommendation b…
- How to fix bad audio quality in a video in 2026: quick guide (Descript)Fixing audio on a video means addressing noise, levels, and room tone, in that order. Noise reduction first, because leveling amplified his…
- Sourcing B-roll: The dos and don’ts (Descript)B-roll is supplemental footage that covers your main shot, and where you get it changes how it lands.
- How to remote record a podcast interview: 2026 guide (Descript)Recording a podcast remotely means capturing each person locally rather than recording the call, so a guest's bad connection does not becom…
- New in Descript: Um detection, search, and more (Descript)Um detection finds filler words automatically and marks them in the transcript so removal becomes a decision rather than a hunt.
- How to Translate Italian Video to French (Descript)Translating Italian video to French takes three steps: transcribe the Italian, translate the text, then either subtitle it or regenerate th…
- How to Be a Guest on a Podcast: Pitching and Prep (Descript)Getting booked on a podcast starts with pitching a specific angle rather than yourself. Once booked, headphones and a quiet room do more fo…
- Best Social Media Video Maker Tools for 2026 (Descript)A social media video maker sizes and formats one recording for several feeds at once. The work that actually takes time is reframing for ve…
- 7 best media players for Windows & Mac: our picks in 2026 (Descript)A media player plays video and audio files locally, and the good ones handle nearly any format without you hunting for codecs.
- Transcribe an Interview: Steps and Faster Options (Descript)Transcribing an interview means turning spoken dialogue into text, either by hand or with automatic transcription software.
- Best silence remover tools in 2026 (Descript)A silence remover finds gaps below a volume threshold and cuts them, which tightens a recording faster than manual trimming.
- I Asked GPT-5 to Be Creative: Here Is What Happened (Descript)Asking a model to be creative produces the average of everything creative it has read, which is the opposite of creative.
- Automatic Apple Podcasts transcripts are coming. Here's how to make sure they're accurate. (Descript)Apple Podcasts transcripts are generated automatically from your audio, and you do not get to approve them before they publish.