After you finish recording in a Descript Room, your session files are automatically saved and organized into a Descript project for editing. This article walks through what you’ll see in your project and how to get started.
How Rooms recordings show up in Descript
Once your recording ends, Descript begins uploading each participant’s high-quality primary and backup recordings. These files will appear in your project once all uploads are complete.
High-quality recordings may take longer to appear, since they’re uploaded directly from each participant’s device. Backup recordings are available sooner, but they’re lower quality and browser-based.
If any recordings didn’t upload completely, your participant can visit a Rooms recovery link to finish uploading. In the meantime, you can begin editing with partial files or use the available backup recordings. Once the recovered file is available, you can easily insert it into your project. Learn how to recover and replace stalled Rooms recordings.
File organization
All files from your Rooms session are stored in the Project Files panel under a folder labeled Recordings.
- The high-quality primary recordings appear in a folder titled Room – [date and time]
- Backup recordings are placed in the nested Backups folder
To download a file, right-click it in the Project Files panel or click the three-dot menu, then choose Download. Learn more about project file actions.
How your recordings are added to the composition
Once all primary recordings have uploaded, Descript creates a sequence, adds it to your composition, and transcribes it automatically.
Speaker labels are assigned based on the names participants used in the Room. The default layout resembles a gallery view, showing all speakers on screen.
Start editing with Descript’s tools
Once your transcript is ready, you can begin editing right from the script. Here are a few tools to help speed up your workflow or polish your project:
- Automatic Multicam: Automatically switch between speaker angles in multicam recordings.
- AI Actions: Summarize, shorten, or rewrite content directly from your script.
- Studio Sound: Instantly enhance and clean up your audio.
- Or let Underlord, Descript’s AI co-editor take the reins. It can apply smart edits, adjust layouts, make creative judgments—and more.