PremiereGPT Review: AI Multicam Podcast Editor for Premiere Pro – Six Months, Weekly Deadlines, and Why I Think Adobe Might Buy This
I have been a professional video editor for over 20 years, working across broadcast TV, multicam theatre and branded content. I run Cinematic Lee and this is my honest take on a tool that has become part of my weekly workflow.
Full disclosure upfront: PremiereGPT has only recently come out of beta. I first came across it on Reddit, where the creator was looking for beta testers, and I have been using it since those early days about six months ago as part of my weekly production workflow for my YouTube show, Settle It. For the first three months I kept AutoPod running alongside it as a backup, sensible enough when you have weekly deadlines, corporate overlords and something is still finding its feet. But about three months ago I cancelled my AutoPod subscription, and I have not had a single problem since.
PremiereGPT did not pay for this review and have not changed a word of it. I took a gamble and paid for the product myself out of my own pocket while it was still in early beta. The only input from them is the logos used in this post and the discount code at the bottom. I did cheekily ask for an affiliate link after writing the draft, because we all have bills to pay, and they were kind enough to set one up. With that said, here is my honest take.
What Is PremiereGPT? An AI Plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro
PremiereGPT (found at premierecopilot.com) is an AI plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro. Think of it as Cursor for Premiere, a chat interface that can actually make edits for you. You type something like “export my sequence for YouTube and Instagram” or “add a marker every time I mention Google” and it does it. It is powered by Gemini and/or Claude and built by a small French team based in Paris.
The core features break down into two areas: the Podcast/Multicam editor (which is what I use most) and the broader AI Copilot tools for timeline editing, subtitles, GenAI integrations, and more.
AI Podcast Editor for Premiere Pro – Genuinely Fast
The show I make, Settle It, is a three-person panel show, two solo cameras and one wide with everyone in frame. Occasionally we go bigger, up to five or six people across four cameras, but more on that in a moment.
For a standard three-person, one-hour recording, the podcast editor cuts and assembles the multicam timeline in roughly 5 to 10 minutes. On my rig a 51 min timeline was processed in 5min 34 seconds, I’m showing my age but I used to like the old “render breaks” when things were a bit slower. Honestly, by the time I have brewed a cup of tea it is either done or just finishing up. AutoPod typically takes 30 minutes to an hour for the same job. There have been mornings with AutoPod where I have spent the entire morning re-running it because I had misconfigured a setting, pointed audio track 1 at camera 3, that sort of thing, and had to start again. That kind of error has real stress attached to it when you are on a deadline.
The underlying logic is simple: if there is sound on Mic 1, and Mic 1 is linked to Camera 1, cut to Camera 1. Repeat for each person. Simple in theory, and in practice it is clean and fast. The trade-off is that if someone coughs, the cut will follow the sound. So you will always need a tidy-up pass for reaction shots and anything happening in the wider scene that you want to catch. That is not unique to PremiereGPT. It is just the nature of audio-driven multicam cutting. But it is worth knowing going in.
Quick Tip: Auto match your audio volume before you start, that way it will be more accurate and it will fix any minor recording level issue.
The One Limitation I Work Around – Automatic Multicam Editing and Clean Timelines
PremiereGPT currently needs a clean timeline to work with. No top mics, no backup audio tracks alongside the main camera mics. If your timeline has those in place, the workaround is simple: duplicate the sequence, strip the extra tracks, run the editor, then reintegrate. Start to finish that takes about 30 seconds. So it is not a problem in practice, but it is worth knowing so you are not caught out the first time.
When It Got Stressed – The Five-Person Episode
The standard three-person format it handles brilliantly. Where it ran into trouble was when our show changed format and we had five or six people spread across four cameras, including a two-shot that was not the designated wide. That kind of setup, where you have multiple people on a single camera that is not the master wide, is a genuinely unusual edge case, and PremiereGPT was not built for it at that point.
To be fair, I completely get it. That is an odd configuration. And here is the thing: within a week of me sharing the screenshots and audio stems with the team, it was fixed. A hotfix, shipped in days. That is the kind of responsiveness that makes you feel like your feedback actually matters.
PremiereGPT vs AutoPod – Team and Support
The PremiereGPT team is active on Discord and they respond fast. EU hours, which is actually useful for those of us in the UK. There is something I genuinely appreciate about supporting a European product rather than defaulting to another US tool. Their English is fluent, and any occasional nuance that got lost in email exchanges was the kind of thing that would have been equally lost on my American and Canadian colleagues (British English is quirky), so I am not going to hold that against them.
What I will say is that they clearly take user feedback seriously. They have a public roadmap and a feature request board, and when ideas get enough traction they ship them. I have seen them discuss things on the Discord to then implement then a month later, like the ability to auto cut sound for the speaker as well to aid with mic bleed and other audio issues.
By comparison, AutoPod is a more mature product but the gap in processing speed alone is significant. For a one-hour three-person show, PremiereGPT finishes in the time it takes to make a cup of tea. AutoPod has taken most of the morning if you misconfigured anything and had to run it twice.
Pricing and Value – Premiere Pro AI Plugin 2026
I picked up a lifetime licence during the beta for $60. That was, in my view, a complete punt (for those who don’t understand British English, it means a total gamble). I was happy to spend that on a tool that might not work out. It has absolutely worked out. At this point the value equation works out at something like stupid like $3 per day of my time saved.
They also offer a free tier that is limited so you can kick the tires and see how it runs or a monthly subscription at $7.99, which covers the AI Copilot tools including generous daily usage caps. Given that a comparable AutoPod subscription runs considerably more, the value here is hard to argue with.
There is also something reassuring about their stated commitment to the product: they have said publicly that even if the company were to close, they would open source the podcast editor so the community could carry it forward on something like GitHub. That kind of transparency aligns with how I like to work and the tools I like to support. It reminded me of the early days of Kickstarter and was honestly what tipped the scales for me to take that punt. I have had my fair share of abandonware plugins before. Yes, I am looking at you PluralEyes.
Honestly, if you are looking for a cheaper autopod or autocut subscription give premiere copilot a spin.
Broader AI Copilot Features for Premiere Pro
I have not fully put the wider Copilot tools through their paces yet. When I first came on board in the beta, the AI features felt a bit thin. Things like “create a new timeline” or “place a marker every 60 seconds”. As someone who has been using Premiere as my daily NLE driver for years that functionality is something I can do in a few clicks, that did not feel like enough to justify the subscription tier on top of the podcast editor. But the product has moved on items like “scan the transcript and pull out moments” or the new push-in tool, which can identify and zoom to dramatically interesting moments in your footage, is something that came directly from user requests and looks genuinely useful for the kind of content I make.
Two features I have not yet used in anger but have now had a proper play with are the subtitle tool and the Motion Graphics template generator. The subtitle feature animates each word as it is spoken, which puts it closer to an After Effects workflow than the basic transcription Premiere offers natively. My current process is to either let Adobe transcribe the audio or upload the file to YouTube as unlisted, pull the SRT file back out and import it. If PremiereGPT can handle that in one step with animated captions, that is a chunk of time saved right there.
I ran it on an intro clip I had to hand and from start to finished output took about five minutes, most of which was just me familiarising myself with the settings with a around a minute being transcribe and export. The animated graphics export as a PNG layer with motion blur applied as an effect to give a natural drop-in feel. Simple, but effective. What impressed me most is that the emojis come in on a separate layer, so if they cover up something they are easy to reposition. Thoughtful bit of design that!
On resolution, the emoji assets are optimised for portrait HD at 9×16, so on my 4K landscape footage they looked a touch soft. But I will be honest, I was using it outside of its intended use case as it is rare to use animated subtitles on a landscape piece. However, I do like to break software by throwing things at it that it was not designed for, and for the general public at the intended spec it looks great.
It is also worth flagging that almost every transcription tool has a rough time with British accents and will always throw up the odd error on company acronyms or brand names. Admittedly its a short sample duration but on my test it was spot on, and the fact that you can feed it a custom keyword list for project-specific terms is a genuine timesaver. I have some charity social content coming up in the next few weeks and while animated emojis are not quite right for that tone, the custom vocabulary feature alone will earn its keep.
As it also has links into Runway and Midjourney as well as other music gen other SFX. So you don’t have to leave Premiere and your stock footage can come to you; I can tell you from experience having to download content from Shutterstock or Pond5 all the time really slows you down! (I have seen my own stock footage on TV so I know that segment well) I don’t have a use for this feature at the moment as my current client list really don’t want generative AI and when using it with clients you have to always be careful about what content you use. To keep all my data in the EU no doubt they will support Mistral soon so all my data does not leave Europe (yes I know that it often scores worse then other AI models out there, but digital interdependence is a real thing). That might be the thing that tips me into subscribing to the full Copilot tier.
They keep adding new features, in the time it took me to write this around projects they have come out with more tools like AI grade and AI soundmix. Once I have had a play I will come back and update this but they have set their bar very high, and I expect it to be far better than what is inbuilt in Adobe already.
Bottom Line – Best AutoPod Alternative for Podcast Video Editing Workflow in Premiere Pro
PremiereGPT has become a core part of my weekly toolkit. The podcast editor alone is worth the price of entry. It is faster than anything else I have used, the team is responsive, and the bugs I encountered in early beta were fixed quickly once I gave them the data to work with.
It is still in beta, and if you are just starting out I would suggest keeping a backup workflow for the first few weeks to build confidence. But I cancelled my AutoPod subscription three months ago and have not looked back. If you are a Premiere editor doing any kind of multicam podcast or panel show work, I would strongly encourage you to try it. It is free to download and there is no credit card required to get started.
I would not be at all surprised if Adobe acquires this at some point. The bones are that good.
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