The Drive View is your central hub for organizing projects in Descript. It’s divided into three main sections: the sidebar, the project panel, and the header. Understanding how each part works will help you navigate your workspace and manage your project content more effectively.
Navigating to the Drive View
You’ll see the Drive View on the Home tab whenever you sign in to Descript using the desktop app or at web.descript.com in your browser.
Looking to get back to the Drive View from within a project? Click the Home button in the top left corner of the Descript window.
The Home tab
When you open the Descript app, you’ll land on the Home tab—designed to help you quickly launch projects, learn core features and workflows, and discover new tools to elevate your editing.
There are eight quick action buttons you can select from the Home tab to begin working in a new project:
- Edit a video: Opens a new video project in the Descript Editor.
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Make a podcast: Opens an upload window where you can import pre-recorded audio or record directly in Descript or Rooms.
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Create social clips: Upload your pre-recorded content to start a new project with your file transcribed and the Create Clips tool ready to go.
- Transcribe a file: Upload any audio or video file to launch a new project and generate a transcript in the script editor.
- Clean up audio: Upload a file to start a new project with Studio Sound applied automatically, enhancing your audio as it’s transcribed.
- Add captions: Upload your content to start a project with transcription and the Captions panel open, so you can style and export subtitles with ease.
- Fix eye contact: Upload a video to start a project with the Eye Contact feature applied automatically for a more natural on-camera presence.
- Remove background: Upload your video to start a new project with Green Screen applied, making it easy to remove your background.
Project panel
The Project panel shows all the projects you’ve created or have access to. You can create, open, delete or manage projects and create folders in this area.
Filter with tabs
The tabs at the top of the Projects panel—Recent, Owned by me, and Shared with me—help you quickly filter and find your projects:
- Recent: Shows projects you’ve accessed most recently, regardless of who owns them.
- Owned by me: Displays only the projects you own.
- Shared with me: Lists projects that others have shared with you.
Grid and list view
You can toggle grid or list view from the top right corner of the project panel. This is great for users who prefer a more visual navigation style. Thumbnails will appear automatically once a project is opened or downloaded, and you can also change the project thumbnail.
Sidebar
The sidebar allows you to:
- Switch between multiple drives and create new ones.
- Manage your drive members and quickly invite new ones.
- Access a variety of views and areas of your drive.
| Sidebar tabs | Description |
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Quick recordings |
Area where you can access recordings made with the Quick Recorder |
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Learn Descript |
A place where you can find guides and tutorials for Descript. |
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AI speakers |
View, manage and create new AI speaker voices |
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Layout packs |
View, manage and create your layout packs |
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Private workspace |
Storage area for projects you want to limit access to from other drive members |
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Drive workspace |
Storage areas for projects all drive members have access to |
The header
Use the header to search your projects, change preferences, switch between light and dark mode, or log out of your account.
Bulk actions
You can select multiple projects in your Drive view to perform bulk actions by clicking on the checkbox that appears just to the left of the project name. You can find more details in the following article: Moving projects and folders on a drive. Remember that the only available bulk action at this time is moving projects.