After AI analysis, Selects identifies your speakers and maps them to the camera and audio tracks. Review and adjust these settings before you start editing. The speaker-camera mapping directly affects how camera switching, speaker labels, and audio routing work across your entire project.
Where to find it
Open [Camera switching settings] from the floating toolbar at the bottom of the workspace.
Tip: The floating toolbar also has an [Expand multi-cam tracks] button. Click it to see all camera tracks on the timeline. Grayed-out tracks are disabled. Click the volume icon next to any audio track to enable or disable it.
Camera switching logic
At the top of the panel, choose how Selects handles camera switching during your edit:
[No camera switching]: Disables automatic camera switching. Use this if you want to manage camera angles manually on the timeline.[Follow speaker]: Automatically cuts to the camera assigned to whoever is speaking, based on the speaker-to-camera mapping you configure below.[Auto scene mix]: Switches between camera angles at natural moments for visual variety, regardless of who is speaking.
Click [Apply] to save your camera switching choice to the current timeline.
Caution: Clicking [Apply] will overwrite any camera switching changes you have already made. Speaker changes apply to all timelines in the current project.
To manually switch camera angles, select a clip on the timeline and use the keyboard shortcut [1]–[9], or right-click the clip and select [Video track] or [Audio track].
Note: Selects automatically assigns cameras to the speakers who appear in them. If a speaker appears in more than one camera, they are assigned to all of those cameras. This cannot be changed manually.
Speakers
Below the switching logic, the Speakers section shows a row for each detected speaker. Each row has three columns: Name, Profile, and Audio.
Name
Selects detects speaker names from the audio during analysis. This detection is not always accurate, so review each name and correct any mistakes. Click a name to edit it. The change applies across the entire project: transcript, timeline, and export.
Profile
The Profile column shows a face thumbnail pulled from the camera footage, Selects matched to that speaker. If you see [No camera], Selects could not match that speaker to a camera track. This is common for off-camera speakers, such as an interviewer or producer. Click the dropdown to assign a camera manually. Camera switching will follow whichever camera you assign here.
Audio
The [Audio] column shows the audio track assigned to each speaker with a waveform preview. Selects picks the best track automatically during analysis.
If the wrong track was assigned: Click the audio field to open the track selector. Use the play button to preview each track, select the correct one, and click
[Done].If you see
[Select Audio]: No track was assigned during analysis. Click[Select Audio]to open the track selector, choose the right track, and click[Done].
Audio track colors
You can assign a color to each audio track directly from the timeline. Right-click an audio lane and select Color label from the context menu. Choose from 11 preset colors: Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Lime, Green, Cyan, Blue, Violet, Fuchsia, and Stone.
The color you assign:
Shows in the audio select dialog so you can identify tracks at a glance
Carries through to Premiere Pro on export, mapping to Premiere's label colors
This is optional but useful on projects with many audio tracks or multiple speakers.
Add a speaker
If Selects missed a speaker, click [+ Add speaker] at the bottom of the list. Enter their name, then assign a profile and audio track. Note that this only creates the speaker profile. You will still need to find the segments where they speak in the transcript and manually reassign those to the new profile.
Play all selected audio tracks
Use the [Play all selected audio tracks] toggle to control which audio plays during review:
Turn off to hear only the active speaker's audio track.
Turn on to play all selected audio tracks at the same time.
When to adjust these settings
Review these settings as soon as you open the workspace, before generating any drafts or making edits. Incorrect speaker-camera mapping cascades into every draft you generate. Getting it right early saves rework later.