Automatically edit a multicam podcast in Premiere Pro.
Stop scrubbing for who is talking. Let the microphones switch the cameras, inside the timeline you already have.
Put each camera on its own video track and each isolated microphone on its own audio track, map mic to camera, and run Video Follows Audio. It watches the audio for speaker changes and cuts to the matching camera automatically, inside Premiere Pro, in a new non-destructive sequence. A one-hour, three-person podcast is switched in a few minutes.
Multicam switching is the slowest part of podcast post.
You scrub, listen for who is talking, cut, and repeat for the full runtime. Premiere's built-in multicam mode makes switching easier, but you are still the one doing it. Video Follows Audio removes that step by letting the microphones decide.
What you need.
Premiere Pro on Mac
The current release is tested in Premiere Pro 26.3.2. Apple silicon and Intel.
One video track per angle
Synchronized cameras, each on its own track. Titles and overlays stay above the camera stack.
One audio track per person
A lav, headset or podcast mic per host. A shared room mic will not work, because the tool needs to know who is speaking.
Video Follows Audio
A Premiere Pro extension. $49 one time, no subscription, nothing else to install.
Six steps. Most of them are things you already do.
Stack the cameras.
Sync your cameras and recorders as usual, or place them by timecode and timestamp with Timebomb. V1 Wide, V2 Host, V3 Guest.
One mic, one track.
A1 Host mic, A2 Guest mic, A3 Guest 2 mic. Clean, separate recordings give the best result.
Launch the extension.
Window → Extensions → Video Follows Audio. It loads your open sequence automatically.
Mic to camera.
A1 → V2, A2 → V3, and so on. Optionally add a wide camera and choose how often it appears, including during silence.
Set the rhythm.
Minimum shot length so it never machine-guns between speakers. Switch slightly early, on the detected change, or slightly late.
Analyze and build.
Press Analyze, review the proposed pacing, create the edited sequence. Your original is untouched and every cut is a clip enable/disable you can change.
Faster than live. Still your edit.
Edit faster than live
The switching finishes in less time than the show runs.
Completely non-destructive
Built in a separate sequence with every alternate angle still available.
Runs inside Premiere
No round trips, exports or cloud uploads. Audio analysis runs locally on your Mac.
More than podcasts
Interviews, panels, weddings, sports commentary, town halls. Anything with one mic per voice.
No clean per-person audio? Use Edimatic.
Concerts, presentations with one podium mic, live events with a board mix: Edimatic switches on timing rules you set (shot length, variance, favored angles, sequential or random) instead of speaker detection. Many editors use Video Follows Audio for the conversation and Edimatic for performance and B-roll sections of the same program.
Questions editors ask first.
Does Video Follows Audio replace editorial judgment?
No. It builds a first pass from microphone activity. You review and refine timing, framing and story as usual. Clean, separate microphone recordings produce the best starting point.
Can it work with a single stereo podcast recording?
Not reliably. It needs separate microphone sources so it knows who is speaking. Most podcast recorders and interfaces can record each input to its own track.
Does it change my original sequence?
No. It creates a separate sequence and switches angles by enabling and disabling clips, so all footage stays available.
Which Premiere versions and platforms are supported?
Mac with Adobe Premiere Pro. The current release is tested in Premiere Pro 26.3.2. Windows is not included in this release.
How does the license work?
$49 USD once. One person may activate up to two Macs. Your key and download arrive by email from Payhip. Activation is online; a verified license works offline for up to seven days between checks.
Video Follows Audio
Whoever speaks gets the camera. Automatically edit any conversation.
$49 USD · one-time purchase · one person, two Macs · no subscription