Every cut is decided by the microphones.

How does podswitch choose the camera angle?

It measures the level of every microphone many times a second and compares each one against its own noise floor, so a quiet speaker still registers as speaking. At each moment it asks which microphone clearly leads the others.

1. One person talking: their camera.
2. Several people talking: whoever is clearly louder on their own mic. If nobody leads for a couple of seconds and you have a wide camera, the wide shot.
3. Silence: after a pause, a listener, usually the person who spoke before, since they are the likeliest to be addressed.
4. A long answer: a short reaction shot of a listener, placed where that listener is not talking, so a single angle never runs too long.

A new voice has to hold the floor for a short moment before the edit switches, and every shot has a minimum length. That is why a quick “mm-hm” does not cause a cut. When a switch does happen, it lands a fraction of a second before the new speaker starts, which is how an editor would time it.

No video frame is ever analysed. The decisions come only from the audio.

How does it remove mic bleed?

In a room, every microphone picks up everyone. podswitch builds a dialogue mix where each speaker’s mic is open only while that person is speaking and turned down while they are not, with smooth fades so the switch is not audible. When two people genuinely talk at once, both mics stay open.

The mix is a 24-bit WAV by default, or AAC if you want a smaller file. It becomes the audio of your multicam clip, so the sound stays continuous across every cut.

How are the cameras and audio synced?

podswitch picks a reference recording, normally the longest camera file, and compares the sound of every other file against it to find where they line up. It checks the result at the start, middle and end of the recording and gives the sync a confidence rating.

• High confidence: applied automatically.
• Medium confidence: applied, and you are asked to check it in the preview.
• Low confidence: processing pauses and you can nudge the offset by frames before continuing.

If files were recorded on separate clocks and drift apart over a long session, podswitch tells you how much. At launch it warns about drift but does not correct it.

Can I change how often it cuts?

Yes. Every plan includes three pacing presets. Changing the preset re-runs only the decisions, which takes seconds, and never counts as a new project.

Preset values are starting points and may be tuned. Some paid plans add advanced controls for the detection and the mix gate, such as how much louder a speaker must be to take the shot.

What do I need to record?

The one essential is a separate microphone for each speaker, recorded to its own track or file. Everything else is flexible:

• A camera and a mic per speaker, with each mic recorded into its camera.
• Cameras for picture and a multitrack recorder for the mics. You map each channel to a speaker.
• Extra cameras with no mic, such as a wide shot, added as angles.
• Remote interviews where each participant’s own file is recorded separately.

Video files can be MOV or MP4. Audio files can be WAV, AIFF, FLAC, M4A or MP3. Before anything uploads, podswitch checks for a channel that looks empty, variable frame rate footage and cameras with different frame rates, and tells you what it found. Our recording guide covers this in more detail.

What happens in Final Cut Pro?

You download two files: the FCPXML and the dialogue mix. Final Cut Pro needs to know where your video files are on your Mac, and browsers never tell websites that, so podswitch asks you to paste the folder path once. Save the mix into that same folder, then choose File, Import, XML in Final Cut Pro.

You get a multicam clip with one angle per camera plus an audio angle for the mix, and a timeline with every cut already made. If a file has moved, Final Cut Pro’s Relink Files command reconnects it. The Final Cut Pro import guide walks through it step by step.

What does podswitch not do?

• It does not upload, store or analyse your video.
• It does not render a finished video file. You finish and export in Final Cut Pro.
• It exports for Final Cut Pro only at launch. DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro are planned later.