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Cut to the active speaker, automatically.

The longest part of editing a podcast is watching who talks and switching the camera to them. The Podcast tool in Studio does it in both cases: whether you shot with several cameras or only have one wide shot.

Two modes, one tool

Multi-camera: the camera follows the speaker

Match each microphone to its camera. Sylba finds the speaker from the audio level and cuts to that camera.

Wide shot when people talk together

When two people speak at once, the edit goes to the wide shot.

Single camera: a virtual camera per person

Faces in one wide shot are detected and a separate framing is built for each person.

Picks the speaker from lip movement

In single-camera mode the speaker is identified from mouth movement on the face.

Face tracking

When someone moves, the framing follows smoothly. Three options: Fixed, Normal, Follow.

Frame it yourself

Add a person, drag the frame, set the zoom. Up to 6 people.

Vertical, square and horizontal output

9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9.

Everyone on screen at once

In the stacked layout 1–3 people go into strips and four people into a 2×2 grid.

How to cut a multi-camera podcast

  1. Prepare the timelinePut synced camera clips on separate video tracks and each microphone on its own audio track.
  2. Studio › Podcast › Multi-cameraChoose which camera each microphone belongs to, and the wide shot.
  3. AnalyzeSylba reads the speech from audio levels and builds the camera plan.
  4. ApplyThe plan is applied to the timeline as cuts; cameras that aren't speaking are disabled.

How to split a podcast shot with one camera

  1. Open single-camera modeSelect the wide-shot clip and the output ratio.
  2. AnalyzeSylba finds the faces and suggests a framing for each person.
  3. Set framing and layoutChoose face size, tracking mode and layout (cut to speaker or stacked).
  4. Build the virtual camerasSylba builds a framing per person on the timeline and cuts to the speaker.

Common questions

Can I see the camera plan before applying it?

Yes. After the analysis the plan is shown as a strip; click a segment to change its camera.

Will my original edit be affected?

In multi-camera a backup of the sequence is made before applying. In single camera the result is built as a new sequence; your source sequence is not touched.

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