Descript - best AI video editor for content creators
Start editing for free - direct your AI co-editor to cut video and podcasts as easily as a doc.
Editing video and audio shouldn't require years of timeline-wrangling in software built for film studios. Descript flips the whole model on its head: it transcribes your recording automatically, then lets you edit the media by editing the text. Delete a word from the transcript and it vanishes from the video. Rearrange a paragraph and your footage follows. It's as intuitive as editing a doc — which is exactly the point.At the center of it all is Underlord, Descript's AI co-editor. Tell it what you want in plain language and it tightens cuts, removes silences, adds captions, drafts scripts, and surfaces the clips most likely to go viral — all under your direction, not instead of it. When you'd rather get your hands dirty, a full professional timeline is waiting underneath, with the granular control over timing, color, and audio you'd expect from any serious editor.
The AI toolkit goes deep. One-click filler-word removal strips out every "um" and "uh" without leaving jarring jump cuts. Studio Sound rebuilds laptop-mic audio into something that sounds broadcast-ready, isolating voice from noise and reverb. Green-screen removal works without a physical green screen, Eye Contact subtly fixes your gaze toward the camera, and Regenerate lets you fix a flubbed line just by retyping it — your cloned voice and matched lip movement do the rest. Automatic transcription, translation, and captioning push your content out to audiences in 30+ languages.
It fits the way real creators actually work. Podcasters get the single best spoken-word editing workflow available; talking-head YouTubers cut their editing time to a fraction; course creators record their screen and clean up mistakes by deleting text; small teams collaborate in the cloud with comments and edits, Google-Docs style. Whatever you make, it lives in one app instead of a stack of separate transcription, cleanup, and recording tools.
Best of all, you can start for free — the free plan covers core recording, editing, and mixing, and paid tiers unlock higher usage limits, more AI credits, and team features as you scale. So stop scrubbing through timelines. Write it, record it, and let Descript turn raw footage into finished, polished content in minutes. Try it at descript.com.
