Getting Started with Descript Rooms

Descript Rooms is a fantastic feature designed to facilitate group recordings seamlessly. It streamlines the process by importing recordings directly into a project, ensuring everything stays organized and easy to manage. This page covers using Descript Rooms effectively, including setup, participant management, recording sessions, and utilizing various features for an optimal experience. 

Getting Started with Descript Rooms

Setting up and joining a Descript Room

Managing and inviting participants to a Descript Room

Recording in a Descript Room

Editing a Descript Rooms Project

Recovering and Replacing Stalled Recordings in Descript Rooms

Understanding how recording hours works with Descript Rooms

Currently, Rooms will only support Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, and only up to 10 people will be able to join a Room. As development progresses, we plan to add support for other browsers, as well as the ability to join recordings from a mobile device.

 

Get started by creating a Room

Creating a Room for your recordings in Descript is quick and easy. Follow one of the options below to get started:

Instantly access a Room from the drive view

This will allow you to get right to it. Once you finish recording, all your files will be added to a new project for you to edit.

  1. Open Descript and select New Project from the main dashboard.

  2. Choose a Record with others. A new window will appear, offering various setup options for your recording session.

Accessing a Room from within a project

Accessing a Room from within a project allows you to save your recording sessions directly to a specific project, keeping everything organized in one place.

  1. On the right-hand side, open the Record Menu to access recording options.

  2. Select Record with others in Rooms. A new window will appear, offering various setup options for your recording session.