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How do you drop a B-roll clip, an image, or a video on top of just one part of a podcast episode, hide the host and guest for that section, and do it without cropping, stretching, or forcing the media to full screen? With the new editor that shipped
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Riverside 2.0 adds a Motion panel that lets you build animated titles and motion graphics right inside the editor — and instead of hunting through properties panels and color pickers, you customize everything by simply telling the AI what you want. In this guide I'll show you how
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Riverside can now send your finished exports straight to Google Drive — no downloading to your computer and re-uploading. It's a server-to-server transfer, so Riverside pushes the file directly into your Drive in a second or two. It's something a lot of people had
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Riverside added a control inside the recording studio that helps you smooth your skin, improve your lighting, and generally look more polished before you ever press record. If you've ever missed the appearance and skin-smoothing options you had in Zoom, this closes that gap — a lot of
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Insert a sponsor or coaching ad into a Riverside episode, even when the ad is just audio and an image. Add it to the timeline, lay an image over it as B-roll, balance the audio, and finish with music that fades in and out.
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Drop a reaction or commentary segment into any Riverside edit: split your timeline, record yourself with your screen shared, capture the audio, and style it with layouts and scenes.
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Two ways to fix overlapping speech in Riverside — mute and hide one speaker, or duplicate the overlap and play both voices back-to-back so you don't lose either one.
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Don't start from scratch. Pull any segment of a finished Riverside edit into its own standalone edit — keeping every cleanup, scene, and camera change you've already done.
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You've finished editing an interview in Riverside. You've removed the filler words, closed gaps, applied Magic Audio. Now you want to send each speaker's track to a separate piece of software for further mixing or video work — but you want those tracks to carry
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A common mistake I see in Riverside is creating a new studio for every episode. It seems like a reasonable way to stay organized — but it causes real problems down the line. Riverside has a better structure built specifically for this: studios for shows, projects for episodes. Here is exactly
Removing filler words — the ums, uhs, and occasional "likes" — is one of the simplest ways to clean up a recording. Riverside does most of it automatically with AI, but there are some nuances worth knowing: which removal method to choose, how to adjust sensitivity, how to remove words
One of the most useful workflows in Riverside is the ability to create multiple edits from the same recording and export each one differently. You can have a video version for YouTube, an audio-only version for podcast platforms, a shorter segment for social media — all from one set of
If you have an audio-only podcast and want to post it on YouTube or other video platforms, Riverside makes it straightforward. Upload your audio, add a cover image, and export as video — all in a few clicks. Here is the full workflow. Upload Your Audio File Start by uploading
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Riverside just rolled out a feature I've been wanting for a long time: the Content Planner. This new tool replaces the old Scheduler and brings everything related to planning, recording, and publishing into a single unified calendar view. The standout addition? You can now schedule social media posts
Have you ever watched a podcast where the camera zooms in on the speaker making a point, then pulls back to the wide shot, and thought they had a camera operator doing it live? They almost certainly did not. It is all done in post-production, and if you use
There's a specific kind of fatigue that comes from managing too many platforms. One tool for hosting video, another for taking payments, a third for your community, a fourth for sending emails to your students, and somewhere in there a spreadsheet tracking who has access to what. I&
If you're hosting your podcast with Riverside, there's a feature that's been highly requested since the hosting service launched — you can now create a website for your podcast directly on the platform. It only takes a couple of clicks, and you'll have
If you've recorded an interview in Riverside and noticed that your guests' names and titles are missing when you open the editor, don't worry — this is expected behavior, and adding them back is straightforward. Why Names Disappear After Recording During a live recording session, Riverside
In this tutorial, I walk through the complete workflow for adding intros, outros, hooks, background music, and YouTube end screens to a podcast episode in Riverside. Whether you record your intro directly in the studio, import an external file from a client, or use AI-generated hooks, Riverside handles all
If you recorded a session in Riverside with the wrong transcript language selected, you might wonder whether there's a way to fix it without losing your work. Unfortunately, Riverside doesn't offer a direct re-transcribe option within an existing studio at the moment, but there is
