No jargon here — just the path from "I have four camera angles" to "rough cut and exports are ready." Each section answers one real doubt: sync accuracy, AI montage quality, captions, platform exports. One goal: try your first multicam session and see if it works for you.
Elena runs a three-camera podcast every week. The bottleneck isn't shooting — it's aligning streams before montage. She used to spend hours in a manual sync tool. Install fear: no weekend Docker project. Sync fear: drift between mics and cameras. Then she dropped all camera files into Shotloom and came back to aligned streams ready for AI montage. Now: ingest after the shoot, pipeline runs locally, rough cut queued. Privacy matters too — unreleased episodes don't leave her machine.
| Stage | What happens | Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| analyze | VAD + face scoring | Media tab |
| montage | AI rough cut draft | Settings rhythm |
| captions | Styled subtitles | Captions tab |
| export | Platform profiles | YT·TT·IG·FB |
Marco covers event multicam and needs TikTok highlights fast. His challenge is montage rhythm under deadline, not shooting. Tools that looked easy in demos became overnight editing marathons. His doubt: can AI montage stay practical or is it a rough draft wall? He kept it when the rhythm clicked: ingest event angles, tweak pace in Settings, return to rough cut and vertical exports. Face-aware 9:16 crop, styled captions, batch from one session. Fewer bottlenecks, no cloud timeline, a weekly process he trusts.
Luca produces client livestreams with sensitive footage — everything stays on his NAS-backed Docker host. Sara batches lecture multicam for LMS and social. Their doubt: can one session export YouTube 16:9, TikTok 9:16, Instagram Reels, and Facebook without re-ingesting? They tested one full session, checked platform profiles, queued multi-format exports from a single master. That cut the expensive part: re-rendering for every channel. Faster publish cycles, clearer platform coverage, fewer last-minute format fixes.
Bootstrap tonight, drop 2–4 multicam clips, and see if sync, montage, captions, and exports work for your workflow. If that test passes, you already have a useful routine for tomorrow.
Bootstrap with Docker, open the dashboard, drop 2–4 camera files. AI sync, montage, and platform exports on your machine — no upload required.
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