Sorot

Your podcast, cut to whoever's talking.

Sorot is a Premiere Pro plugin. Point it at your synced cameras and mics, and it builds a first edit with the cameras already switched: the speaker, a wide when it goes on, reactions if you want them. You review, it saves you the switching.

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Premiere Pro 26 or newer · macOS or Windows (beta) · no card needed

How it works

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Install

On a Mac

1. Click Download for Mac and open Sorot.pkg.
2. The first time, macOS blocks it because the installer isn't from the App Store. Click Done (not Move to Trash).

   

3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security and click Open Anyway next to Sorot (macOS asks for your password).

   

4. Open the file again and click Open Anyway.

   

5. Click through the installer. You don't need Creative Cloud or an internet connection for this.
6. Quit and reopen Premiere Pro, then open Window → UXP Plugins → Sorot.
7. In the panel's Settings tab, paste your trial code (or a friend's referral code) and click Activate.

On Windows (beta)

Premiere Pro 26 or newer on Windows 10 or 11. Windows support is new: if anything looks off, message Samuel from the panel's Settings tab.

Have the Creative Cloud app? The quickest way:

1. Download Sorot for Creative Cloud (.ccx) and double-click it.
2. Creative Cloud asks to install it: click OK / Install.
3. Quit and reopen Premiere Pro, then open Window → UXP Plugins → Sorot.

No Creative Cloud app? This works offline too:

1. Download Sorot for Windows (.zip). Quit Premiere Pro.
2. Right-click the zip → Extract All… → Extract. (Running it from inside the zip doesn't work.)
3. In the folder that opens, double-click Install Sorot. If Windows says "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway; if it asks "Do you want to run this file?", click Run.
4. A black window says Sorot … is installed. Press any key to close it.
5. Open Premiere Pro, then Window → UXP Plugins → Sorot.

Then, on either: in the panel's Settings tab, paste your trial code (or a friend's referral code) and click Activate.

Your first edit

1. The synced sequence

Sorot reads one sequence where everything is already in sync: every camera on its own video track (V1, V2, V3…) and every mic on its own audio track (A1, A2…). A track can hold several files (a recording in two takes is fine); Sorot follows the track, not the file. Zooms, reframes, LUTs and colour on those clips come along into the edit.

2. Mics → cameras

In the Edit tab, pick that sequence. For each mic, choose the video track that shows that person. Two people on one camera? Give both mics the same track. Any video track with no mic is treated as the wide shot.

3. Settings

• Cut to reactions: a quick cut to the listener on a "yeah" or a laugh. Turn it off for clients who don't like them.
• Wide shot after one person talks: on a long answer, a short wide after this many seconds (default 18).
• Shortest shot: no shot shorter than this (default 2 s), so it never flickers.

4. Build and review

Two ways to build, both from the same cuts:

• Build multicam edit: a real Premiere multicam, already cut. Each camera is your whole video track, with its takes, zooms and colour, so you change a shot the usual way: play it and press 1–4.
• Build stacked edit: one video track per camera, cut at every switch, with only the chosen camera switched on. To change a shot, select the greyed-out clip of the camera you want and press ⌘/Ctrl+Shift+E to switch it on, then the same on the one that was showing.

Sorot measures how loud each mic is, works out the cuts and puts the new sequence in the bin Sorot. Your synced sequence isn't touched. Changed it? Just build again.

After a build, rate the cuts with 👍 or 👎. It's the quickest way to make Sorot better.

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