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How to Automatically Edit Multi-Camera Footage

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Preparing for Multi Camera Editing Workflow

Step 1. After organizing footage, open a new project in Premiere Pro and add your audio and video files to the sequence to get your multi-camera editing workflow started.

Important Note:
Do not use Premiere Pro's [Multi-Camera Source Sequence] feature. Instead, place video and audio on separate tracks.

Step 2. Sync the clips

  • Align the clips recorded from different cameras and mics by selecting them, right-clicking, and choosing [Synchronize] to synchronize clips. You can sync by timecode, use audio-based syncing, or other settings/software for automatic syncing.

Step 3. Adjust the necessary audio sequence settings and normalize audio levels across different mics if needed.


Start Multi-Cam Editing with Cutback

Step 1. Go to [Window] > [Extension] > [Cutback] to launch Cutback.

Step 2. Select [Edit multi-cam] from the menu.

Step 3. Configure sequence preset settings for analysis:

Range: Choose the portion of the sequence for transcription.

  • Entire sequence: Transcribe all tracks in the current sequence.

  • Selected clips: Only transcribe selected clips in the sequence.

  • In/Out area: Transcribe between custom In and Out points in Premiere Pro.

Language: Select the language spoken in the video (one language at a time).

Speaker count: Choose the number of speakers.

  • For one speaker, select [One person].

  • For multiple speakers, select [Multiple].

  • If each speaker has their own mic and separate audio tracks, choose [Audio separated] and assign names per track.

    Cutback's auto multicam edit feature settings for Speakers when audio is separated for multi track editing in premiere pro
  • If all audio is on a single track, choose [Audio not separated] and enter the number of speakers. Cutback will detect and label speakers using AI.

    Cutback's auto multicam edit feature settings for Speakers when audio is not separated in Cutback's Premiere Pro multicam editing plugin

Video: Select the [Multi cameras] option and choose the video tracks to use.

  • If [Audio separated] is selected:

    • Use [Select person for video track] to assign speakers to each video track.

    • Use [Video track priority] to decide whether to show more shots of individuals or group views using the white slider.

      Cutback's auto multicam edit feature settings for video tracks where speaker is separated by multi camera sequence in Premiere Pro
  • If [Audio not separated] is selected:

    • Choose video tracks and adjust how frequently each track appears.

      Cutback's auto multicam edit feature settings for video tracks where speaker is not separated in Premiere Pro multicam plugin

Step 4. Click [Transcribe video to edit multi-cam] to begin transcription-based editing.


Edit Video 10x Faster with Captions

Step 1. After using the AI transcription tool, review the automatically generated transcript in Cutback and start editing. Please refer to our text-based editing guide for more information.

the Adobe premiere pro plugin Cutback's interface showing how the auto transcription tool's Edit Captions UI looks.

Step 2. Adjust Multi-Cam Settings
You can adjust Video track priority to decide which track appears more often. Click [Apply] when done.

adobe premiere pro multicam video priority thanks to Cutback AI video editing plugin

Step 3. Modify Speaker or Camera

  • Click speaker names or track names to assign or change who is speaking and which camera to show. You can rename speakers or add new ones.

    Cutback screen of the auto multicam edit modifying speaker and camera as plugin assists premiere pro multicam to switch audio and camera

  • Select multiple segments by dragging to make bulk changes.

Tip:
Use shortcuts to quickly change speaker or camera.

  • Change speaker: alt + 1~9 on Windows / option + 1~9 on Mac

  • Change camera: 1~9 to switch video tracks


Apply Multi-cam Edits to Sequence

Step 1. Click [Apply to sequence] and choose which sequence to update.

  • You can apply edits to the current sequence or copy it and apply changes to a new one. Changes are reversible.

Step 2. Choose what to apply:

  • Trimming edits: Apply cut to the sequence.

  • Multi-cam edits: Apply speaker names and video track settings.

  • Enable speaker audio only: Keep only the speaker’s audio active and mute the rest (works only if audio is separated).

    Cutback screen of the auto multicam edit applying edit options for an ai multicam edit in premiere pro

Step 3. Click [Apply] to confirm.

Step 4. Review the updated sequence.

  • If needed, use the [Time Machine] button to revert to the state before applying changes.

  • You can manually enable/disable tracks in Premiere Pro by right-clicking on clips.

Screen of Cutback's multicam edit applied in Premiere Pro to create a multi-camera source sequence all on one track


Add Captions by Speaker

Step 1. Click the [Edit Captions] tab to review and edit captions.

Step 2. After editing, click [Apply to sequence] > [Add Captions].

Step 3. Choose the caption type:

  • Premiere Pro caption track: Adds transcription to the caption track.

    • Split tracks by speaker: Creates a separate caption track per speaker (for caption tracks only).

  • Animated Captions: Creates animated captions as graphic clips.

  • Captions with speaker name: Same as above, but includes speaker labels.

  • Check out our animated captions guide for more details on motion captions and captions with speaker name.

    Cutback screen of the auto multicam edit add caption options in this premiere pro plugin auto caption tool

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