Center Active Speaker in Descript Underlord
New Descript Feature: Center Active Speaker
In this video, I'll demonstrate a new feature in Descript - the 'Center Active Speaker'. I'll show you how to use this feature to automatically center your speaker in portrait or landscape video formats. I walk you through the process, from accessing the feature under visual effects to applying and testing it. You'll see how useful this is for creating social media clips or editing interviews by keeping the speaker centered without manual cropping.
00:00 Introduction to the New Video Feature
00:11 Resizing and Cropping Videos
00:46 Introducing Center Active Speakers
01:11 Applying the Center Active Speaker Effect
01:55 Testing the Center Active Speaker Feature
03:44 Conclusion and Practical Uses
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Nice work. Does the active speaker only works with 2 video sources? a traditional zoom meeting would not work?
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
You're right, it can only switch between separate video streams. It can't do it with Zoom recordings which are one file for everyone.
I noticed that you continue to use your green screen. I have a black backdrop but also have a green screen that I could put up. With all of the new background swap features, is there a great benefit to having a true green screen?
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
I still prefer the green screen with chroma key removal over AI background removal. The AI one is often inaccurate (it will remove the microphone in front of me, leaving a big hole right in the middle of my body), and it's also blurry around the edges. It has no 'controls' to allow tweaking. So unless you have nothing in front of you, and you have good contrast between yourself and your background, and your hair is not fluffy, and other 'stars' align, the green screen is still your best bet.
@danebauerle1
Ай бұрын
@@Graphicious thank you
interesting. i thought this was more of a locked on stabilization feature. Maybe future updates. If it will track on during like a stage presentation how fantastic would that be?!
@Graphicious
Ай бұрын
I think it analyzes the entire video and identifies where the face is. Then, as scenes are created with that video showing (say, Active speaker), it will use that data to center the face in that scene. But it doesn't seem to MOVE the video to keep the face dead-center like other face tracking plugins do.