Orcast → Final Cut multicam
Final Cut multicam, already cut when you open it
Final Cut Pro has a great multicam angle editor — but you still sync the clips, create the multicam clip, and cut the angles yourself, live, for the whole recording. Orcast does that part before Final Cut. It syncs your cameras by sound, cuts to whoever is speaking, and exports an FCPXML — every camera on its own track — that you open straight in Final Cut Pro and refine. On your Mac, free to start.
Final Cut's multicam is fast — once everything's synced and you're clicking
The Angle Editor in Final Cut is genuinely good. But before you get there you have to select all your clips, make a multicam clip, trust or fix the sync, then play the angle viewer and cut live — pressing 1, 2, 3 through the whole episode. For a podcast that's an hour of watching your own recording just to switch cameras.
Orcast makes those switching choices for you — by who is speaking — and delivers them to Final Cut as an editable timeline. You still use Final Cut for what it's best at; you just don't spend the hour clicking angles.
From cameras to a Final Cut timeline — four steps
Drop every camera into Orcast
Open your shoot folder — cameras, phones and audio recorders, whatever devices and formats you used. Nothing to prepare in Final Cut yet.
Sync and auto-cut happen in Orcast
Orcast aligns every camera by sound, frame-accurate, then cuts to whoever is speaking. You get a finished multicam edit on Orcast's own timeline first — check it, nudge it.
Export an FCPXML
Export FCPXML — Final Cut Pro's native interchange. Every camera comes across on its own storyline with the auto-cut as edits, ready to open.
Open in Final Cut Pro and finish
Import the FCPXML, relink your media, and the multicam edit is on your timeline. Recut any moment, add titles, grade, mix — everything Final Cut is great at, without the live switching.
Built to hand off to Final Cut Pro
Orcast writes real FCPXML, the format Final Cut Pro imports natively. No converters, no round-trip through another app — export from Orcast, open in Final Cut.
No clap track, no Synchronize Clips, no fixing drift. Orcast aligns the cameras by their audio waveform, so the angles are already frame-matched when the timeline opens.
Prefer another editor for some projects? The same edit exports as XML for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Cut once in Orcast, finish wherever you like.
Your footage never leaves your Mac — the cut is computed from a tiny audio fingerprint, never from uploaded video. Nothing to wait on, nothing on someone else's server.
New here? See multicam editing software for the full picture, or the Premiere Pro workflow if you cut there too.
Final Cut multicam FAQ
Does Orcast export to Final Cut Pro?
Yes — it exports FCPXML, Final Cut Pro's native interchange format. Import it and the whole multicam edit lands on your timeline, every camera on its own track, ready to refine.
Do I still make a multicam clip in Final Cut?
You don't have to. Orcast already made the switching decisions and exports them as edits on a timeline. If you'd rather rebuild a Final Cut multicam clip from the synced angles, you can — but the point is you don't need to.
How does Orcast sync cameras for Final Cut?
By sound. As long as every camera and recorder heard the room, Orcast matches their audio waveforms and aligns the angles frame-accurately — no clap, no timecode, no Synchronize Clips step in Final Cut.
Does it work on Apple Silicon Macs?
Yes — Orcast is a native Mac app built for Apple Silicon. That's also where Final Cut Pro runs best, so the whole flow stays on one machine and your footage never leaves it.
Is it free to try?
Yes. Orcast is free to install and free for the first 5 minutes of every edit — enough to sync your cameras, see the auto-cut and test an FCPXML export into Final Cut. Pro unlocks the full length. Your footage stays on your Mac.
Skip the angle-clicking, keep Final Cut Pro
Download Orcast, drop in a recording, and export a Final Cut-ready multicam edit from your first episode.
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