Descript News
18 New Caption Designs
August 28, 2026
Descript added 18 caption designs, sorted by theme so you can pick by register rather than scroll a single list, from quiet and clean through to loud.
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Claude Fable 5 in Underlord
June 12, 2026
Descript added Claude Fable 5 to Underlord — it sees your footage and understands it: it zooms the moving thing in your screen share, perfects on-screen text overlays, and frames the person talking, automatically.
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Opus 4.8 Support
June 6, 2026
Descript's Underlord now supports Claude Opus 4.8 for cutting long videos, adding chapter markers, and removing silences.
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Workspaces for Enterprise
May 6, 2026
Descript launched Workspaces for Enterprise — open, private, and personal workspaces for teams.
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GPT Image 2 Lives in Descript
April 24, 2026
GPT Image 2 is now in Descript. Generating an image used to mean leaving the thing you were making to go make a different thing, then come back and hope it still fit. It fits now — because you never left.
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Claude Opus 4.7 in Underlord
April 20, 2026
Underlord now runs on Claude Opus 4.7 — faster, better, and cheaper than Opus 4.6.
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Seedance 2.0 Is Now in Descript
April 11, 2026
Generate your videos in the same place you edit them.
This model is state of the art and allows for:
• 6 different aspect ratios
• 480p or 720p resolution
• 4 second - 12 second clip lengths
• First and last frame reference image
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