After publishing your content as a web link, you may download your content (up to 10x faster than locally exporting a file), share the page with other, and comment directly on the page.
Publish settings
You can make setting changes from the web page without having to republish your composition. These are the same settings before publishing with the exception of resolution. You'll need to re-publish the page to change the resolution of your content.
Select Settings at the top of your published page to view and adjust the page settings.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Access | Setting the privacy settings for your publish webpage; you can adjust this setting after publishing from the webpage |
| Settings: | |
| Show transcript | Display you composition’s transcript on the published web page |
| Allow comments | Allow commenting on the published web page |
| Show author | Display the project owner’s name on the web page |
| Allow sharing from embeds | Add a share button on embedded video or audio players of your published page |
| Custom branding | Enable/disable showing the drive’s icon on the published web page |
Drive owners have the option to change the default publish privacy setting in their Drive settings page.
Unpublish the page
You can unpublish a web link directly on the web page. Please note that any comments added directly on the shared page will not be saved.
- Open the shared page.
- Select Publish settings.
- Click Unpublish.
Download and share content
Download the content up to 10x faster
One of the major benefits to publishing your content as a web link is that you can download the content as a file. After publishing a web link, the content can be downloaded by selecting Download at the top of the web page, or from the Publish panel in the Descript. Learn more about downloading a published page.
Page views
If you are the creator of the published web page, you track page views in the top right corner of the web page.
Commenting
You can allow for commenting on the published page. Keep in mind that comments made on a published page are separate from comments made in a composition.
- Select the place in the video or audio you want to add a comment. You can also highlight a section of the transcript of you have Show transcript enabled for the page.
- Open Show comments on the page.
- Select Add a comment at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Type your comment and click Send.
Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly add comments
Press Shift + Cmd + M (Mac) or Shift + Ctrl + M (Windows) to add a comment at a spot in your page's content, or at a highlight region of the transcript.
Edit the project
Users who have project and the page creator can open the Descript project directly from the shared page. Simply select Edit at the top of the page.
Not seeing the edit button?
Make sure you are signed into your Descript account. Select and Sign in at the top right of the shared page.