Have Descript do the fiddly editing.

Course Overview

1. Section 1

   Foundations: Descript, safely and well

   What you will be able to do: Edit a recording by editing its words, record people only with their informed agreement, and record cleanly enough that the AI has something good to work with.

   • Meet Descript: edit the words, edit the video

     How Descript turns a recording into a document you can edit, why that makes it easy to change what someone meant, and your first one-minute recording and edit.

   • Safety first: people, voices and recordings

     When you can record people, where a recording goes once it is in Descript, the rules for AI voices and faces, and the one question to ask before anything is published. You write your rule for recording people.

   • Record it right the first time

     Microphones, rooms, light and talking points: the few choices that matter more than any edit, why AI clean-up cannot rescue a bad recording, and how to record your screen for a how-to.

   2 quizzes

2. Section 2

   Edit with AI, keep your judgement

   What you will be able to do: Clean up a recording without making it sound fake, brief Descript's AI to make the edit you want and check every change it makes, and get captions, names and te reo Māori right.

   • Clean it up without making it fake

     Studio Sound, filler words, word gaps, retakes, eye contact and backgrounds: what each one does, when to use it, and how far is too far.

   • Brief Descript's AI like a colleague

     Underlord, Descript's AI co-editor, and how to brief it with Goal, Context, Source and Expectations so it makes the edit you want. Then how to check every change it made.

   • Captions, names and te reo Māori

     Why captions carry the message for most viewers, where transcripts go wrong, and how to get people's names, place names and te reo Māori right every time.

   1 quiz

3. Section 3

   One recording, many pieces

   What you will be able to do: Turn one recording into the pieces each audience needs, check everything before it is shared, and set up a way of working you can repeat every fortnight.

   • One recording, many pieces

     Clips, versions for different screens, written summaries and translations from one recording, and the ways each one can go wrong.

   • Check it, share it, make it repeatable

     Getting feedback on a draft without losing it, the checklist that runs before anything goes out, and turning a one-off into a fortnightly routine.

   • Your first 30 days with Descript

     A plan for your first month, so this becomes how you work rather than something you did once, and how your certificate is earned.

   2 quizzes