Descript projects support importing most common audio, video and image files as listed below.
| Supported file types (desktop) | |
|---|---|
| Audio | WAV, MP3, AAC, AIFF, M4A, FLAC |
| Video | MP4, MPEG, MOV, Apple ProRes* |
| Image | BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, WEBP |
*HDR files will be converted to SDR, though results may vary. Click here for details.
| Supported file types (web) | |
|---|---|
| Audio Containers | WAV, MP3, AIFF, M4A |
| Audio Codecs | AAC, PCM (8, 16, 24, and 32-bit) |
| Video Containers | MP4, M4V, MOV |
| Video Codecs | h.264, HEVC |
| Image | BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP |
| Unsupported file types | |
|---|---|
| Audio Containers | OGG, OPUS, WMA |
| Video Containers | MKV, MTS, MXF, WEBM, OGV, AVI, WMV |
| Image | HEIC, EXIF |
Multi-channel audio
Descript does not currently support files with 3 or more audio channels in a single file. Please mix these down to stereo or split to mono before importing. See Sequence overview for details on how to work with multi-track audio / video content.