Descript for cut a webinar into shorts: What Worked, What Embarrassed Me
A small, repeatable cut a webinar into shorts routine in Descript that pays back the time it takes to set up.
Repetition is a bug, and I treat it like one.
Start in Descript and do the smallest version of the task you can. lets you cut audio by deleting words in a transcript, so the first pass is faster than doing it by hand.
The failure mode to watch: Tighten the output before you trust it. The model gives you a draft, not a verdict, and the part that looks finished is usually the part you should read twice.
The workflow I ended up with: Save the result as a reusable starting point. The second time you do this it should take a third of the time, because you are editing, not inventing.
The mistake I made: I treated the first result as final. the transcription drifts on heavy accents, so I now build in one review pass before anything ships.
That is an hour a week I got back.