Guides
Guides to recording and editing a multicam podcast.
Step-by-step guides to recording and editing a video podcast filmed on more than one camera: one microphone per speaker, syncing audio and video, multicam editing in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, removing mic bleed, adding captions and connecting your editor to an AI assistant.
The guides work whether or not you use podswitch. Product-specific steps link to the vendor's own documentation in the footnotes, so you can check where every instruction comes from. Where podswitch can do a step for you, the guide says so at the end.
New to multicam? Start with how to edit a multicam podcast, then follow the guide for your editor: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.
Record a multicam podcast
Microphones, cameras and rooms, and how to record so the edit is easy: one microphone per speaker, every camera recording sound.
- How to record a customer interview or podcast, in person or remotelyMicrophones, cameras, rooms and remote tools for recording an interview that is easy to edit, plus consent and a checklist for the day.
- How to record a multicam podcast for automatic editingWhat to record so podswitch can cut your podcast automatically. One microphone per speaker, any cameras, synced by sound.
Sync and edit in your editor
Sync audio and video by sound, then cut between the cameras with multicam editing in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.
- How to edit a multicam podcast in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci ResolveSet up a multicam clip, sync the cameras by audio, switch angles and polish the edit, in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
- How to sync audio and video for a podcast, without a clapperboardSync audio and video by sound in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve, with waveform sync, a clap or timecode, and fix drift on long recordings.
- How to edit a podcast in Premiere Pro: multicam editing, step by stepMulticam editing in Premiere Pro for a podcast, step by step: sync the cameras by audio, switch angles as people talk, clean up the dialogue and export.
- How to edit a podcast in DaVinci Resolve: multicam editing, step by stepMulticam editing in DaVinci Resolve for a video podcast: sync cameras by sound, switch angles, clean up dialogue and export, all in the free version.
- How to edit a podcast in Final Cut Pro: multicam editing, step by stepMulticam editing in Final Cut Pro for a podcast: build a multicam clip synced by audio, switch angles in the Angle Viewer, clean up the sound and export.
Clean up the sound
Why every microphone in the room picks up every voice, and how to remove the bleed.
Clips, captions and Shorts
Add captions and subtitles in your editor, turn the best moments into vertical clips linked to the full episode, and get the sizes right for each platform.
- How to add captions and subtitles to podcast clips in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut ProStep by step: add captions and subtitles in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro from speech or an SRT file, then style and burn them in.
- How to make YouTube Shorts from a podcast, and link them to the full episodePick the moments, cut vertical clips up to three minutes, link each Short to the full episode and read the analytics, using YouTube's own rules.
- Social video sizes in one place: Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and LinkedInVideo size, shape and length limits for Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn, from each platform's own help pages.
- How to go viral on TikTok with podcast clips, and what a viral score can and cannot tell youWhat TikTok says its For You feed looks for, how to cut podcast clips that give it what it needs, and what a viral score can and cannot tell you.
Thumbnails, music and publishing
Thumbnail sizes, music you are allowed to use, transcripts as SRT files, and chapters and show notes for each episode.
- YouTube thumbnail size, and how to pick a thumbnail that gets clickedYouTube's official thumbnail size, file types and limits, sizes for Shorts and podcast covers, and how to pick a thumbnail people choose to click.
- Royalty-free and AI music for podcasts and YouTube, and what the terms actually meanWhat royalty-free and copyright-free music mean, where to find podcast intro and background music, and what UK law says about AI music.
- What is an SRT file, and how to make one from a podcastWhat an SRT subtitle file is, how it is laid out, how it differs from WebVTT, where it is used, and how to make one from a podcast.
- How to add chapters to a YouTube video, and write podcast show notesYouTube's rules for chapters, how to write the timestamps, chapters on Apple Podcasts, and how to write a podcast description and show notes people use.
AI assistants in your editor (MCP)
Connect DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro to Claude or ChatGPT, and let an assistant handle the organising, markers and exports.
- DaVinci Resolve MCP: how to connect Claude and ChatGPT to Resolve 21.1DaVinci Resolve MCP, step by step: set up Resolve 21.1's built-in server, connect Claude or Codex, then let AI rename clips, add markers and queue renders.
- Premiere Pro MCP: how to connect Claude and ChatGPT to Adobe PremierePremiere Pro MCP, step by step: pick a community server, connect Claude or Codex, then have AI sort bins, add markers and queue exports, safely.
Using podswitch
Open a podswitch edit in your editor and pick up where it left off.