Descript Partial Outage - July 22, 2026

Provider incident title: “Video files appear frozen or low FPS after import”

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Started

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

01:01 PM UTC

Duration

8h 59m

total

Resolved

10:01 PM UTC

Jul 22, 2026

Severity: Partial Outage|Affected: Descript|Duration: 8h 59m

Incident Timeline

10:01 PM UTC—Resolved

Status: Investigating We have detected a problem and are investigating the underlying issue. As a workaround, many users have found success by using Replace File(https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/10165830016397-Replace-file) to re-upload the file. Affected components Media Playback (Degraded performance)

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Descript 30-day uptime: 99.8% based on Tickerr's independent monitoring checks.

This incident was sourced from Descript's official status RSS feed. Tickerr polls RSS feeds every 10 minutes and merges updates from the same outage into a single incident timeline.

This incident lasted 8h 59m.

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