How to edit a podcast or interview in Premiere Pro.

In a talking-head video, one person talks and redoes their sentences. In a podcast or interview, two or more voices answer each other. A pause can be useful thinking time. A follow-up question can carry the whole meaning of the answer that comes after it.

Cutting every silence blindly breaks the rhythm of the conversation. Editing a conversation is decided by meaning: what moves the discussion forward, and what slows it down.

If each guest has their own mic and camera, sync everything first (right-click the clips, Synchronize, using the audio waveform) and create a multi-camera source sequence. You then edit that sequence, not the separate files.

Check the audio before anything else: a clipping mic or an out-of-sync track is easier to fix before the rough cut than after. For automatic camera switching, see the podcast multicam editing guide.

Play it back at high speed (press L several times) and drop a marker (M) on every passage you want to remove or absolutely keep. Don't cut while you listen: you'd lose the thread.

Only then, cut with Cmd/Ctrl + K and remove with Shift + Delete (Ripple Delete), marker by marker. For an hour of podcast, plan on one to two hours of work.

The Text panel (Window > Text) helps a lot: it transcribes the conversation, lets you search for a word to jump to the right spot, and detects pauses and filler words. What it can't tell is that an answer was given twice, or that a tangent adds nothing.

Rushly transcribes your clip's audio (only the audio track goes to the servers, the video stays on your machine), then flags dead air, hesitations and repeated sentences. When the same idea is said twice, it keeps the most complete, smoothest take.

You review everything in the review panel: each segment is kept or cut in one click, with a color code. Then Rushly creates a new sequence named after your clip: the original sequence is never modified.

AI Cleanup uses 2 credits per minute of analyzed video: an hour of podcast is 120 credits. The Free plan gives you 300, no credit card required. For camera switching, Rushly's Multicam runs locally, with no credits.

An hour-long podcast often has several moments that stand on their own in 30 to 60 seconds. Smart Clips finds them, scores them and creates one vertical sequence per clip, with the hook marked. It needs at least 8 minutes of footage and uses 3 credits per minute. See the viral clips guide.

Rushly was built and tuned on French speech first. It also understands English, Spanish and Portuguese: test it on your own footage with the Free plan before you commit. If you edit in DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut, it won't open: Rushly is a Premiere Pro plugin. And if your conversation is already clean, with no dead air or retakes, Premiere's Text panel is enough to navigate it.