Photo by Bibek ghosh on Pexels Why your export doesn't look (or weigh) like you expected If you've ever exported a video from Descript and been surprised by how big — or how blurry — the file turned out, you're not imagining things. Descript bundles a handful of decisions into one export dialog, and it's easy to pick the wrong combination without realizing it. The short answer to "what export settings control size and quality in Descript" is this: resolution, frame rate, and container/codec choice do almost all the work, and Descript doesn't give you a manual bitrate slider the way a traditional NLE like Premiere does. Instead, quality is largely tied to the resolution you export at and whether you're exporting video or audio-only. That's the headline. The rest of this is about what each setting actually does, because "just export at the highest setting" isn't always the right move, especially if you're uploading to a ...
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