Automatic multicam

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.

Looking for Underlord?

If you haven’t enabled New Underlord in Descript Labs, you’ll see the Automatic Multicam tool in the Underlord panel. It’s the same set of AI tools—just with a different name.

Underlord is now an AI co-editor that can automate many of these actions, or you can still run them manually in the AI Tools panel. Right now, all users get unlimited use of Underlord through the end of July — so it’s a great time to try it out. Learn more about Underlord (beta).

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.
    In app UI demonstrating the AI Actions panel with Automatic Multicam selected

  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.
    Automatic Multicam style options

  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.
    Automatic Multicam cutaway frequency settings

  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.
    Automatic Multicam camera setup options

  5. Apply a layout pack (optional)

    Automatic Multicam layout pack selection

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.