One camera plus jump cuts is cheap and fast. Multiple cameras give you real angle changes that hide edits automatically. The right answer depends on how much polish you need and how much gear you can carry.
Neither approach is more advanced. They are different bargains, and the edit you plan for should match the shoot you can afford.
With two angles you can cut from one shot to another to cover a mistake, and the change in perspective reads as deliberate coverage instead of a glitch. The viewer accepts the cut because it goes somewhere new.
That forgiveness is the real product. A second camera is not about looking expensive, it is about having a clean place to hide every problem in the take.
With a single angle, every fix has to be a jump cut or a cutaway. That constraint pushes you to become better at timing and at shooting your own coverage, because you cannot lean on a second lens.
Some of the tightest talking head edits ever made came from one camera and a hard drive. The limit was a teacher, not a wall.
A second angle hides an error. A jump cut admits it and moves on. Both are honest, just at different volumes.
Jump cuts used to read as amateur mistakes. Now they carry most online video, and the reason is less about taste than about how people watch.
Hiding a jump cut with b-roll is the oldest trick in the book. It only works when the b-roll has a reason to be there beyond covering a seam.
Jump cuts for energy tighten a slow take into something worth watching. Push the same trick too far and the story stops being a story at all.
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