Descript’s Automatic Multicam feature uses AI to analyze your content, select the best camera angles, apply layouts, and insert cutaways. It’s a one-click tool for creating polished, engaging edits with smooth transitions and perfectly synced footage—no manual work required.

How to Use Automatic Multicam

1. Open AI Tools

   • Go to the right sidebar of your project and click AI Tools.
   • Select Automatic Multicam under the Look good section.
   

2. Choose your style

   • Automatic: Shows multiple speakers during dialogue and inserts cutaways during monologues. This style only works with multi-track sequences. Learn more about sequences.
   • Show only active speaker: Focuses only on the current speaker. No cutaways or multi-speaker shots.
   

3. Set your cutaway frequency

   • Occasional: Adds a cutaway every 30 seconds during longer monologues.
   • Frequent: Adds a cutaway every 10 seconds.
   • None: No cutaways inserted.
   

4. Configure your camera setup

   • Click the Camera setup icon to assign each audio track to the correct camera. This ensures the camera switches match the speaker.
   

5. Apply a layout pack (optional)

   • Let Descript automatically choose polished, dynamic layouts for each scene by applying a layout pack. Learn more about layout packs.
   

Submit your settings

• Click Submit to apply your settings.
• If your composition has existing scenes, you’ll see a warning: "Existing scenes will be overwritten." Descript will create new scenes for each camera change.
• Processing time depends on the length of your project. If you stop the action midway, Descript won’t undo the changes—it simply stops applying new ones.

Seeing blank scenes when you apply Automatic Multicam?

This can happen when using Automatic Multicam in a composition where multiple sequences are placed one after another in the script. If the speaker cameras are configured to reference video from two video tracks that don’t overlap, Automatic Multicam may choose a track without video at certain points in your composition. This can cause other layers to disappear and create blank scenes.

Here are two ways to resolve this:

Option 1: Manually adjust layer visibility

Use the Properties panel to manually adjust which video layers are shown for blank scenes. Learn more here: Layer visibility and order.

Option 2: Use separate compositions for each sequence

1. Create a separate composition for each sequence.
2. Apply Automatic Multicam to each individual composition.
3. Copy Cmd/Ctrl + C and paste Cmd/Ctrl + V each processed composition into a final blended composition.