Descript saves me 3 hours per edit but here are the friction points I keep hitting...

If you edit in Descript and haven't fully explored the waveform and timeline alongside the transcript editor, it's worth trying -- the combination is where it really shines for me. Audio and video simultaneously, direct YouTube export, transcript-based editing. It's cut my editing time by around five hours per session.

That said, there are a few rough edges that keep catching me. I'd love to know if some of you have hit the same things and if you have any solutions for them tbh!

Missing keyboard shortcuts: "M" for marker, easy track soloing. Standard stuff in any DAW that just isn't there. And there are a whole bunch of shortcuts so it does confuse me

No proper podcast templates. Layouts exist and they are great but there's no way to set up a recurring structure (intro, outro, fixed segments) and just drop your main content in each week. For anyone editing the same show repeatedly this would be huge.

Cover art doesn't persist on MP3 export You have to re-upload it every single time. Small but annoying.

Can't group clips across timelines -- If you have clips on different tracks that belong together, you can't group and move them as a unit. One by one only.

Auto gap removal cuts spoken audio - Even with "no harsh cuts" enabled it sometimes removes sections where someone has clearly spoken. i can see them right there on the waveform - Needs a sensitivity setting badly.

Waveform vanishes when zooming -- Happens regularly enough that I end up doing full page refreshes mid-edit. Not ideal.

My hunch is that most of these are because Descript was built transcript-first, and waveform-heavy editors are pushing it into DAW territory it wasn't originally designed for. Anyone else editing this way?

Would love to know if you've found workarounds.