Riverside Reviews & Product Details

Lots of communication, I enjoy the magic clip testing, it's helpful. I think the platform is easy for guests and hosts even with no experience to get two people in a room to talk!

I use a professional camera and the quality looks fuzzier and not professional as it does when actuallt recording. This is something I'm working out with the team currently, so I don't foresee it being a long-term issue because they're so responsive, and can help me understand what I need to do to improve the footage!

Quality content for my podcast, clips for reels, and better experience for my guests.

Riverside is a no-brainer for podcasters! The audio quality is so much better thant the traditioinal video conferencing platforms. Further, the features are easy to use and fun. Finally, Riverside has done an outstanding job of building real community. An absolute pleasure

Only thing missing is virtual backgrounds

Much better sound and video production. Being able to create clips and easily share them to social channels is extremely helpful. Further, being able to share with my guests is a game changer.

The upside of using Riverside is that you are guarenteed high quality audio and video. It also auto creates transcripts and social media video content!

It's not intuitive and the onbarding took longer than expected.

All my recorded content in one place!

It was so incredibly easy to sign up and start using Riverside. The tutorials and support is top notch and the ease of starting was so refreshing!

So far I haven't run into any down side to Riverside.fm.

Riverside.fm is a one stop shop for hosting my podcast making it easy to start up and get going.

I own a video production business in Colorado and took an assignment to do interviews with some high level people around the world. The client did not want to or have time to interview each interviewee in person on location, so I was tasked with finding an alternative option. I came across Riverside.fm. I was a little intimidated and skeptical at first to try to record a video online and have any sort of decent quality. After the first recording I was blown away at how easy it was. None of the people that i have done inteviews with are technical types and so far nobody has had a problem loging in. My client has had some feedback from the board and they are saying that the video interviews are going better than any in the past. I love that it records locally and then uploads the video to the cloud. I don't have to worry if the connection is poor or grainy. I know the recorded segment will be fine. The ability to download the file for Adobe Premiere is great. I simply download the file drop it in my bin and open the timeline. I can then choose to cut out my audio and video and edit down the interviewee. There is an edit timeline built into Riverside which is nice to use if you want to cut it down and remove the silent gaps in the project. I used it on the first interview and it works great. I can cut quick in Premiere so I am doing it there now but if you needed to edit in Riverside it is a great tool. I am sure as I continue to use it I will find even more value in it. I had one interviewee log off to quick and the video had not finished uploading but it notified me immidiatly and sent me a link to send him for uploading it. I think it may have even sent him a link as well. I give it an A+ and great support if you need it.

I have to make sure that all the people I invite to the studio are on Edge or Chrome. I typically do not use either browser, but maybe the rest of the world does.

It allows me to do video interviews remotely.

I love that you can easily mark clips as you are recording and then easily turn those into social media clips. They make it really easy to record, put quotes and video clips and download a transcript.

I have not found any features yet I would like added. They are pretty on top of what podcasters need!

Riverside is helping our business create podcasts by making it easy for us as podcast newbies to do everything we need in one place. No need to have a seperate transcription or video service.

Efficient and easy to use. can spend more time preparing content rather than the equipment and technology to record.

That guests tend to leave before their video uploads, this is inconvenient. Hopefully there's a way to workaround this or avoid this in the future.

Video recording quality, ease of interviewing, hosting the recordings in one place without taking up storage.

The automatic sound leveling is super cool! And also the SOME-ready video bites that the AI pulls out are quite good.

Editing options are limited - I use CapCut for that.

With Riverside it's easy for me to host podcasts / webinars with remote participants. The audio and video quality are good. RIverside helps me make small bites for sharing on SOME as well. That's a cool feature.

It's so easy to use. You set up the studio and hit record. The tools during recording are simple and the ability to download video and audio separately is super useful. It makes editing so much easier, whether you're using the built in editor or a third party solution. I honestly wouldn't use anything else.

I can't think of anything. For my needs it's perfect. My only concern, if it can be called that, is the jump in monthly subscription if I need to use it more. But that's it.

It's giving me a really straight forward way of recording my content without the need for any prior knowledge or technical ability. I just set up and go, which is awesome.

We at Curiosity Continuum home grew our podcast from humble beginnings, figuring out how to make it work in bootstrap fashion. Riverside is the first platform we decided to pay for to help us at the recommendation of a trusted colleague who had used Riverside for years. What a difference. We have cut our post production time dramatically and recording and syncing is easy. Transcriptions are strong. You get a lot of creative leverage out of this platfom. We have been podcasting for years, and this elevated our production game.

Not a downside per se, but more of something Riverside should warn you about. We get charged foreign transaction fees for our payment, which after I was told that the company uses a place in the Netherlands (I think!) for their processing worldwide, that made sense. However, I wasn't expecting the charge. Some more overt messages and warnings about this would be helpful to the customer.

Eficiencies in post prodution dramatic, cutting out at least 60% edit time. Great at syncing audio over wonky internet connections, which saved sync in post production. Guests can easily join and it makes it more turnkey ready for such things. We are experienced podcasters and this made our workflow much easier.

I like how the quality is always stellar as it's saved on each guest's device first then uploaded. That way, even with a bad WIFI connection, the end result is still professional. I'm also really loving the Magic Clips feature they're not testing. It's SO HELPFUL in making short clips of any conversation!

Not being able to blur the background or add a different background is probably the feature that needs most improvement, in my opinion. It also is a bit intimidating for guests that aren't comfortable with tech to use. Although the directions are pretty straight forward!

It makes it easy for amateur video editors to make high quality videos ANS SHORTER CLIPS! It's great. It makes it easy and quick. I even had someone message me complementing my video for its quality. I immediately recommended riverside.fm!

I've been using Riverside both for video podcasting and for conducting customer interviews for market research purposes. I love that it records audio and video locally to both my computer as the host and the guest's computer. This ensures that there is no lag in the final output. The video quality is 720 and looks really sharp.

I've noticed that when there are more than 2 people being recorded, that it can become quite laggy--more delay than with something like Google Meet. That being said, these problems can be mitigated by turning on some of the low data tools.

It's solving the problem of getting a final video output from a podcast interview that is free of digital lagging or audio issues (since it's being recorded to each user's local machine and uploaded to the cloud afterward.)

Functionality and ease of use. Transcripts.

Must have high speed internet for it to work well, which is to be expected really. I would like more advanced audio editing options.

I appreciate having a functional easy to use space to welcome my podcast guests into. And I love that I can create different studios.

Excellent customer service, with fast response times. The ability to record high-definition video via the web. AI splicing for social media saves time with traditional editing software.

Editing via transcript is subpar and doesn't compare to a service in comparison to Headliner. No multitrack layering editing feature Ability to upload edited clips directly to various social media

Riverside.fm is solving time. By using the AI features of Riverside.fm I'm saving hours of finding, editing, and formatting suitable clips for social media. Also, by recording through Riverside.fm I don't have to worry about lag or bad audio as would be the case using traditional conference platforms such as Skype. Another option for recording video calls that comes in a close second is OBS Studio.

I have been using Riverside for less than a year and I have seen so many upgrades that delight me. I am now able to create and review a test recording before I start for peace of mind. A very nice surprise is that there's now also a section for telepromter text.

More video editing optionswhen I use Riverside to share my screen. I would like to be able to have my video in a circle or other shape in a corner of the screenshare.

I am able to create quality video that I can import into the video editor I use, compared to zoom videos that don't work. I also use Riverside for interviews/podcast.

The relaibility of the local recordings is amazing! I have had interviews completely drop out, but the files are always safe. I sometimes have guests who request that I use Zoom, and I am always amazed at how much Riverside is better suited for Podcasters. I also find that they are constantly adding new features. Just today I noticed the "Script" feature which allows you to have a script above the screen which is great for doing an ad read while maintaining your eye line. I also love the integration with Premiere Pro and using the markers that transfer over to my Premiere project. It is a great product!

I have had a few issues where my voice gets out of sync from the video. I am using an SM7B through a Tascam Mixcast 4 into Riverside and ProTools simultaneously, so maybe that is causing an issue..but I just bump it over by about 8 frames in Premiere when editing the video and it isn't a huge issue. The guest is never out of sync, just me. The customer service is always great so they are quick to help you with any issues.

I used to have to provide a long list of instructions for people to do a local recording on Zoom, but Riversdie has completely eliminated that. It is the easiest and most professional platform to just have the guest log on, and get started. All the features throughout are specifically designed for podcasting and it is a premium experience for everyone involved.

Riverside.fm is intuitive. It was easy to learn and easy to use. It helped us create high-quality recordings for our project. The user interface is clean and everything seems to be in the proper place. I tried other popular remote recording programs and Riverside was the easiest to use and gave us great results.

I can't think of any downsides to Riverside.fm. It was easy to learn and produced great results. If there is any room for improvement, I might suggest an editing feature built into the platform. I use Descript to edit my projects and find that really helpful for editing conversations.

Riverside helps us create high-quality recordings for our audio projects. It allowed for us to easily capture our interview content without putting the burden of figuring out the tech on our clients. Not one of the dozen or so interviewees had any trouble accessing the program and figuring out how to use it.

I love the quality of the videos. The picture is great and the sound is clear. I also love the magic clips for creating shorts.

I personally have not had a negative experience so far with this platform. If I had to give any critques, I would only say to please continue to roll out the upgrades!

Riverside helped me to find a great platform to host my podcast video and audio.

I love how easy Riverside is to make an episode, edit it, make short form clips, and publish. I dont even need descript anymore. We love Magic Clips!

There have been a few times where the episodes were not salvagable.

it is an all in one platform for us to create an audio and video podcast.

Super simple to use! There was no learning curve. It's very intuative. Riverside saved the quality of several of our Podcasts by recording the video and audio locally. Without this feature the quality would have been spotty, and we would have had to rerecord. This is a life-saver!

Only thing that could be better would be the ability to blur your video background.

I need to record high quality video and audio with Podcast guests over the internet. It allows my Podcast production company to edit and optimize the audio, pull clips and add a transcript for us.