Multi-camera auto sync and switch

10 or more camera angles in one project, plus separate lav, boom and wireless audio. A project can hold several synced timelines, and one draft can pull from more than one of them.

By audio waveform by default, or by timecode if your cameras recorded it. Selects doesn't read a visual slate, but a clap helps because it's loud.

Sync can fail when two files share no audio, a file is under about 10 seconds, the sound is very noisy, or a camera recorded no audio. Place those clips by hand with markers.

No. Every camera and recorder runs on its own clock, and over an hour they slide apart by a few frames. Selects corrects that drift along the whole recording, not only at the start, so the voices still match the lips at the end of the show.

You ask chat for it. By default it cuts to whoever is speaking, avoids jump cuts and goes wide at natural moments. It can ask how the cut should feel, how often to go wide, how often to show reactions, and which angle is each person's main one.

Any rule you can say works, like cut back to the host whenever she looks into the lens.

No. Selects tells who's speaking from the picture as well as the sound, so switching works from one shared mic. A mic per person still helps the sound, and when you have them, analysis matches each voice to its own mic.

Selects switches away from it. The soft angle isn't used for that stretch, and the cut holds on a sharp one until it's back in focus.

Yes. Press 1 to 9 to switch cameras on the Premiere shortcut preset, or Alt+1 to 9 on the Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve presets. You can also right-click a clip and pick its video or audio track.

Yes. Import a synced timeline from a .prproj, .fcpxml or Final Cut 7 .xml file. FCPXML multicam clips come in as synced timelines, one angle per track. Retimed clips and nested sequences are skipped.

Yes. Both handoffs have an option to nest the multicam, so you keep switching angles in your editor. Effects, transitions and color don't carry over, so finish those there.

Yes. PluralEyes is no longer developed. Selects syncs by audio waveform or timecode as it did, then does the camera switching too, and hands the result to Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

No. Selects is a desktop app for macOS and Windows. The multicam edit happens there, and you hand it to Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve to finish.