You can adjust the pacing of your script audio or video by adding or shortening word gaps directly from your Script editor.
How to adjust word gaps
- Right click in your script where you want to adjust a word gap.
- Select Edit word gap.
- Choose one of the preset option, set manually..., or shorten all word gaps.
- If you choose to set the word gap manually, type in the word length in the typebox and press
Return
(Mac) orEnter
(Windows). Descript will playback the section you just adjusted. - Continue making adjustment as necessary
Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your editing
Cmd + G
(Mac) orCtrl + G
(Windows) — adjust a word gap at your cursor's location.Cmd + Shift + G
(Mac) orCtrl + Shift + G
(Windows) — use the last word gap duration.