Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by onion2k on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:51AM (#25643532)

This looks amazing for audio. There's no doubt that this will massively improve podcasts, radio, etc.

I can't imagine watching a video that's been chopped up like that would be a particularly nice experience though. Editing video to remove unwanted sections and not have it look like people's heads are jumping around weirdly is really hard. Cuts are really noticeable. If they've managed to fix that with ML it's going to have a huge impact on the cost of video production.

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Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by nimbix on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:51AM (#25643851)

I watched a youtuber go through the whole flow of producing a video using Descript and it doesn't do anything in terms of real video editing. It's useful for removing bad takes out of a longer video, but then you need to export the chopped up product and spend a lot of additional time fixing it up and makeing it flow seamlessly in a tool like AfterEffects or DavinciResolve.

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Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by tgirod on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:50AM (#25644173)

I wonder if deep learning algorithms such as worldsheet [0] would help in simulating multiple angles, so the program can switch from one angle to another on cuts, to make them less jarring ...

[0] https://worldsheet.github.io/

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Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by cush on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:35AM (#25644459)

How is it jarring though? Most modern YouTube videos look just like this

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Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by cush on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:35AM (#25644453)

Every modern YouTube video is cut just like this. It looks good. Jumping heads turn out to not look bad, when the audio flows perfectly.

https://youtu.be/2UP6CSZsc5o

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Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by daysm on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:51AM (#25645458)

In the video you linked it looks very natural. I think that's mainly because the cuts are between sentences. Not sure if it would still look good with mid-sentence stop words cut out.

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Re:Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works ... by cush on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:58AM (#25759065)

It looks fine. They all do it. Source: I watch what too much YouTube

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