An AI does your Multi-Cam Podcast edit (like Autopod), except you give it rules

It takes forever editing a long multi-camera podcast. So when Autopod came onto the scene, it was pretty exciting to have some of the drudgery get automated.

But I was thinking that simply cutting to the camera of whoever’s speaking is not enough.

So what if you could give the AI rules for the edit? Rules which you could change per section.

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Rules like:

Freeze on person A for this segment.

Cut to a wide angle if more than one person is talking.

Don’t cut away if someone is monologuing more than 30 secs. Even if they’re briefly interrupted.

Don’t cut to a new camera for speech less than 3 secs.

Cut to a new camera 3 secs BEFORE they start speaking. (L-Cut)

Cut to a new camera 3 secs AFTER they start speaking. (J-Cut)

Don’t cut to Person D if they talk.

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Then you can non-destructively drop into your video editor for the final pass. (final tweaks, adding intro/outro, watermarking).

That way you could dramatically cut down time spent editing, BUT still keep editorial control.

Because you'll always know better than an AI what good content looks like. Good content is very creative and subjective in my opinion.

I was curious what you guys thought about the concept?

(For MODS, this is just a random idea I thought of today, not a product or promo of any kind)