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How safe is Descript for video & film production?
The maker of Descript publishes little about data protection. Ask before you put confidential video & film production data into it.
Where does Descript stand in video & film production?
Shared place 16 of 32 options for video & film production (professional tools and general assistants) on GDPR profile. 10 options, like Descript, have an unknown profile. Each tile is an option we track for this field; click for the check.
Published safeguards
None of these three found in what the provider publishes; you can read what is there below. Is this your tool? Add the details
US company (not EU), California law. Transcription via Rev and a self-hosted Whisper model, avatars via Hedra, custom voices via Google Cloud; the language model Underlord uses is not stated. Descript may use inputs and outputs to train its own models unless you opt out; third parties may not contractually train on them. Storage in the US (Amazon S3 or Google Cloud). SOC 2 Type II; a data processing agreement for customers and a transfer mechanism were not found.
How to use Descript safely
- Use the business variant and sign a data processing agreement (DPA).
- Do not enter unnecessary personal data into prompts; anonymise where possible.
- Ask the provider explicitly where data is stored and processed.
- Keep a professional in the loop: raw footage almost always contains personal data: faces and voices of people on screen, and with voice cloning or face manipulation you work with biometric data.
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Questions
- How safe is Descript for video & film production?
- The maker of Descript publishes little about data protection. Ask before you put confidential video & film production data into it. The provider publishes little on this, so ask before business use.
- Does Descript train on my data?
- US company (not EU), California law. Transcription via Rev and a self-hosted Whisper model, avatars via Hedra, custom voices via Google Cloud; the language model Underlord uses is not stated. Descript may use inputs and outputs to train its own models unless you opt out; third parties may not contractually train on them. Storage in the US (Amazon S3 or Google Cloud). SOC 2 Type II; a data processing agreement for customers and a transfer mechanism were not found.
- What should I watch out for with AI in video & film production?
- Raw footage almost always contains personal data: the faces and voices of people on screen, and with voice cloning or face editing you are working with biometric data. Arrange consent from the people depicted and, for voice cloning or lip-sync, from the actor or speaker. Check per tool what happens to uploads. CapCut may use your input and output for training under its standard terms (not on Enterprise), VEED does so on the free plan, and Descript does so unless you opt out. Runway (Bytedance, Singapore) stores data in Malaysia, Singapore and the US and receives a worldwide, perpetual licence to your content. Adobe, Kapwing, Flawless, Moments Lab and Dubformer state that they do not train on your content, Happy Scribe only with your permission. For unreleased client material, choose a tool with a data processing agreement and, where possible, EU storage or local processing.
Source documents
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Last checked: 9 November 2026 · How we check
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