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• Best Time to Post on Social Media by Platform (Descript)
  Posting times vary enough by platform and audience that a universal answer is worthless. The broad pattern is weekday mornings and early ev…
• How to Start a Podcast: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (Descript)
  Starting a podcast comes down to five decisions: the topic, the format, the gear, where you host it, and how often you publish.
• How Much Do YouTubers Make? Real Earnings by Channel Size (Descript)
  You Tubers in the Partner Program typically earn $5 to $15 per thousand monetized views, and the range swings hard on niche, since finance…
• YouTube Search Trends: Find Topics People Want (Descript)
  You Tube search trends are the rising and high-volume queries that signal what audiences want right now.
• How to Use a Green Screen: A Complete Guide (Descript)
  Using a green screen means lighting the screen separately from the subject, which is the step most people skip.
• How to Use Video Proxies to Speed Up Your Editing Process (Descript)
  A video proxy is a smaller, lower-resolution copy of your footage that you edit against so the timeline stays responsive.
• Great TikTok videos aren't just for Gen Z: A guide for Millennials, Gen-X, and beyond (Descript)
  Tik Tok's audience skews older every year, and the assumption that it is a teenage platform is now several years out of date.
• New in Descript: Overdub, Live transcription, publishing, audiograms, and more (Descript)
  This release brought live transcription, so words appear as you record rather than after, alongside Overdub and publishing tools.
• The Dumb Zone on Moving From Radio to Podcasting (Descript)
  Dan Mc Dowell and Jake Kemp moved The Dumb Zone from radio to podcasting, which meant losing a station's reach and gaining control over eve…
• Sharing Work At a Conference? Use Video To Stand Out From the Crowd (Descript)
  A conference presentation video gives people something to take away, which is more than most talks manage.
• 12 top graphics cards for video editing (2026) (Descript)
  A graphics card for video editing is the GPU that speeds up rendering, effects, and timeline playback, especially at 4 K and higher.
• Descript Storyboard: What Changed for Podcasters (Descript)
  The Storyboard release rebuilt the editor around video, and podcasters got the side effects: better multitrack handling, faster transcripti…
• Apple continuity camera: iPhone as Mac webcam in 2026 (Descript)
  Continuity Camera lets a Mac use a nearby i Phone as its webcam, wirelessly, with no setup beyond having both signed into the same Apple ac…
• How to Make Instagram Reels: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide (Descript)
  Instagram Reels are short vertical videos up to 90 seconds, built for discovery in their own feed.
• Convert video to audio: the complete guide in 2026 (Descript)
  Converting video to MP3 strips the audio out of a clip so you can listen to it, transcribe it, or reuse it as a podcast episode.
• Planning for the unexpected on a video shoot: Lessons from a war photojournalist (Descript)
  Video shoot planning is mostly about deciding in advance what you will do when the plan fails.
• Best remove audio video tools: streamlined editing for 2026 (Descript)
  Removing audio from video either mutes the track or detaches it so you can replace it. Detaching is the better default, since it keeps the…
• New in Descript: Scene Rail and Canvas Improvements (Descript)
  This release unpins the scene rail so it can be moved or hidden, and improves direct editing on the canvas.
• Marketing Strategy: How to Build a Digital Plan That Works (Descript)
  A digital marketing strategy is the decision about which audience you are going after and which channels you will use to reach them.
• Video Production Process: How to Plan a Project (Descript)
  The video production process runs pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution, and the first stage decides how painful th…
• Best Webinar Software: Platforms Compared by Use Case (Descript)
  Webinar software has to handle registration, a live presentation, Q and A, and the recording afterward, and most tools are stronger on one…
• Introducing Descript Video and Screen Recording (Descript)
  This release added video editing and screen recording to what had been an audio tool, which is the point Descript stopped being a podcast a…
• How to Add Captions to YouTube Videos: 4 Methods (Descript)
  You Tube auto-generates captions, and they are usually about 90 percent right, which means every technical term and proper noun is a coin f…
• 13 best free DAWs for podcasters: pro audio in 2026 (Descript)
  A DAW is a digital audio workstation, and free ones like Audacity, Garage Band, and Reaper's trial cover most podcast editing.
• 3 unique ways to grow an interview podcast (Descript)
  Growing an interview podcast usually means booking bigger guests, which works until it does not.
• James Kim of Moonface on Making Audio Drama With Artistry (Descript)
  James Kim makes Moonface, a scripted fiction podcast about a Korean American son who cannot come out to his mother.
• Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication at Work (Descript)
  Synchronous communication happens in real time; asynchronous communication lets people respond on their own schedule.
• How to Record a Video: The Basics for Clean Footage (Descript)
  Recording a video is capturing footage with a phone, webcam, camera, or screen recorder, framed and lit so the subject reads clearly.
• How to Mix Music: Make Recordings Sound Polished (Descript)
  Mixing music is balancing individual tracks through levels, EQ, panning, and effects so the full song reads clear and cohesive.
• How Long Can a YouTube Short Be? The Current Limit (Descript)
  You Tube Shorts can run up to three minutes, raised from the original sixty-second cap. Anything vertical and under that limit gets treated…
• Podcast on iPhone: Record and Publish From Your Phone (Descript)
  Making a podcast on an i Phone means recording, editing, and publishing episodes with the phone's mic or an external one and a recording ap…
• Multitrack Recording: Edit, Mix and Add Effects (Descript)
  Multitrack recording captures each speaker to a separate file, which is what makes surgical editing possible later.
• All about podcast music and where to find it (Descript)
  Podcast music is the licensed audio behind intros, outros, transitions, and background beds in an episode.
• How Long Should a YouTube Video Be? What the Data Says (Descript)
  There is no correct You Tube video length, only the length that holds attention for the content you have.
• How to set up the ultimate podcast studio (Descript)
  A podcast studio is a treated room before it is a gear list. Soft surfaces on the first reflection points do more for the recording than an…
• How to record a high quality podcast (the easiest way possible) (Descript)
  A clean podcast recording has consistent levels, little noise, and no harsh room echo. You get there with a decent microphone, a quiet or t…
• Chelsea Devantez on Building a Podcast Fan Community (Descript)
  Chelsea Devantez built Celebrity Book Club's audience around a running joke that listeners could participate in rather than just hear.
• Podcast RSS Feed: How It Works and How to Create One (Descript)
  A podcast RSS feed is the file every app reads to find your episodes, and your host generates it for you.
• The best video collaboration tools for 2026 (Descript)
  Video collaboration tools handle the review loop: sharing a cut, collecting comments, and knowing which version is current.
• Descript Zoom and Pan: How to Zoom In After Recording (Descript)
  Zooming in after the fact reframes a shot you did not compose tightly enough, which happens on almost every screen recording.
• How to Translate English Video to Dutch Fast (Descript)
  Translating English video to Dutch runs through the transcript: transcribe, translate, then subtitle or regenerate the audio.
• Learn How to Add Music in a Video and Up the Production Value (Descript)
  Adding music to a video changes pace and emotion faster than any edit does, which is why the wrong track undoes a good cut.
• Multimedia customer case studies: a winning strategy in 2026 (Descript)
  A customer case study works when it names a number and a problem rather than a feeling. Multimedia versions carry further, because a custom…
• Claude vs ChatGPT: How the Two AI Assistants Compare (Descript)
  Claude and ChatGPT are both general-purpose AI assistants, and the gap between them shifts every few months as new models ship.
• Proxy's Yowei Shaw on life after a podcast layoff (Descript)
  Yowei Shaw made Proxy after a podcast layoff, which is a more common origin story than the industry likes to admit.
• AI power user? How to create your own AI prompt library (Descript)
  A prompt library is a set of prompts you have already tested, stored somewhere you will actually look.
• How a Descript product designer uses video for design walkthroughs (Descript)
  A Descript product designer records screen walkthroughs instead of writing design specs, because showing an interaction takes twenty second…
• Slow Motion Video on iPhone: How to Shoot and Edit It (Descript)
  The i Phone shoots slow motion at 120 or 240 frames per second, and you set which part of the clip slows down afterward in Photos.
• How to post long Instagram videos: the complete 2026 guide (Descript)
  Instagram caps Reels at three minutes, Stories at sixty seconds per card, and feed video at sixty minutes from desktop.
• Descript Studio Sound, New Overdub and Audio Effects (Descript)
  This release brought Studio Sound, a rebuilt Overdub model, and a set of audio effects that previously required a separate editor.