When you finish recording in Descript Rooms, your project and files are automatically organized and made ready for editing. Here’s what you can expect to see in your Descript project once the session is complete.

How Rooms recordings show up in Descript

After the host stops the recording, backup recordings, such as isolated tracks for each participant's audio and video, will instantly be available once the recording ends. Primary files take longer as they will need first to be uploaded by each participant before being placed in the Recordings folder; while this happens, you may see the following window:

File organization

Files will be organized in the folder structure: Recordings > Room Recording - (date), Backups. This organization helps keep track of each recording session and its related files, making it easier to manage and access recordings for each session. Files are separated into Room recording folders and backup recordings. Files in the Room recording folder are the high-quality primary recordings that are captured locally by each participant. A new Room recording folder will be created each time you start and stop a recording. Meanwhile, backup recordings are recorded in the cloud and are of lower quality. 

How your recordings are added to your Descript project

Once all primary files are uploaded, Descript will create a sequence with these files, adding them to the composition and then automatically transcribing them. If some participants' files are still uploading, you may need to wait for all files to become available before editing.

Speaker labels will be assigned based on the names of participants in the Room. The default layout of the video feeds will resemble a gallery view, making it easy to see everyone in the recording.

Handling incomplete or stalled uploads

If one or more primary files fail to upload or stall, Rooms try to help you recover these stalled files. For more details on file recovery and troubleshooting, see Obtaining and Using Descript Rooms Backup Files or Troubleshooting Issues with Descript Rooms.

Editing your Rooms Descript project

Rooms was designed to work well with Underlord and its many abilities. To quickly layout scenes by active speakers in your project, you can follow these steps:

1. Open  Underlord in the sidebar.
2. Find and select  Automatic multicam.
3. Set the editing style:
   • Automatic will create Cutaways—scenes displaying multiple speakers simultaneously— during overlapping dialogue; you can also set the amount of Cutaways to  Frequent, Occasional, or None.
   • Show Only Active Speaker displays only the active speaker, so you'll only see one speaker at a time.
4. Configure the Camera setup to link video and audio tracks in the sequence, ensuring Underlord cuts to the correct video when someone is talking.
5. Select a multicam template to apply to the edits.
6. Select Submit and sit back while Underlord makes your multicam edits.

Once you've applied Automatic multicam, you can further customize your scenes to display a different speaker, camera angle, or show multiple videos from your sequence at the same time.

1. Open the Scenes panel in the sidebar.
2. Toggle on the script video's visibility.
3. Position and resize the videos in your scene from the Canvas.

Anytime you want something to change, like you want to cut to a different speaker or add stuff like captions or stock media to part of your video, you’ll use a scene. Scenes are unique to Descript. We’ll cover them quickly here, but you can learn more about working with scenes here.

To create a scene:

1. Place your cursor where you want to add a scene.
2. Type / or select the slash icon next to your script.
3. Once it’s added, you can move a scene boundary by clicking and dragging the / slash in your script.