As a host, you control who joins your Room session and what they can do during recording. This guide covers starting an immediate session via the Record with others button. To schedule a session for a future date, see Schedule a Descript Rooms session.
Joining as a guest?
This article covers steps for hosts. If you’re joining a Room as a guest, see our Join a Descript Room guide for detailed setup instructions.
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Create and configure a Room
Create a Room from either the Drive view, from within a project, or if you're a member of multiple drives, from web.descript.com/goto-room.
Create a Room from the Drive view
Start a Room from your Drive view. When you finish recording, all files are added to a new project for editing.
- Click the Record button in the top-right corner.
- Choose Record with others. A new window opens with setup options for your session. (To schedule a future session instead, select Schedule for later.)
Create a Room from a project
Starting a Room from within a project saves your recordings directly to that project.
- Click the Record button at the bottom of the window to open recording options.
- Select Record with others. A new window opens with setup options for your session. (To schedule a future session instead, select Schedule for later.)
- Join the Room to continue configuring your session.
Directly from a URL
If you're a member of multiple Drives, you can navigate directly to web.descript.com/goto-room to select which Drive's Room to enter. You’ll be prompted to choose which Drive the Room session should belong to.Â
Adjust Room settings
Once you've joined your Room, configure your Rooms preferences. These settings will apply to all future sessions you host. Learn more about all available Room settings.
Rooms don’t save to folders
Rooms are tied to Drives, not folders. Even if you create a Room while viewing a folder, recordings save to the Drive’s root or default location — not to the folder you were viewing.
Invite participants and guests to your Rooms session
Once you’ve joined a Room as the first participant and owner, click the Invite button to share your Room link. By default, invite links assign participants the Guest role, but you can create invite links with pre-assigned roles so participants join with the correct permissions.
For creating calendar events with your Rooms link, see the Schedule a Descript Rooms session with a calendar invite guide instead.
Create an invite link
- Click the Invite button in the top-right corner of the window.
- Click the dropdown next to the Room link and select a role (available to paid plans):
- Guest — Recorded, no controls (default)
- Co-host — Recorded, shared control
- Producer — Not recorded, full control
- Viewer — Not recorded, no controls
- Click Copy to copy the role-designated link.
- Share the link with participants.
How invite links assign roles
When you share a role-specific link, participants automatically join with that role. Your Room's default role settings only apply when someone joins using a generic Room link without a pre-assigned role.
Role links are persistent, don't expire, and are unique to each Drive.
Control Room and Viewer Room limits
If a participant joins with a Producer or Viewer link but the Control Room or Viewer Room is full, they’ll join as a Guest instead.
Approve join requests
Guests configure their equipment, mic, and speaker settings before clicking Request to join.
While waiting, participants see a hold screen until admitted. Hosts see a prompt to approve or deny requests.
Change a participant’s role during approval
Hosts can change a participant's role before admitting them—even if they joined via a role-designated link.
On paid plans, Co-hosts and Producers can also change roles during approval. Learn more about Roles in Descript Rooms.
Enable auto-approval
To skip manual approval and admit guests automatically, enable Auto-approval for new participants under Room Settings.