Descript Killed the 'Um's in My Video Without Re-Recording

I used Descript for this job the way most people do — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

A small habit change made the output usable instead of embarrassing.

Step one is the boring part people skip: name the one decision you're trying to make.

Then let Descript do the draft, but watch overdub drifts on sentences over ten words.

The fix that matters: edit the result in place instead of regenerating from scratch

What changed: lets you edit audio by editing the transcript Now it's a ten-minute job I don't dread.

Don't expect it to be fire-and-forget. The tool handles the volume; you handle the judgment. That split is the whole trick.