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If you're using Riverside on a Mac (or any other recording app) and a blue background suddenly appears behind you in the camera preview, it's not a Riverside bug — it's a macOS feature that's been turned on without you realising. What'
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Navigating the Riverside timeline with a mouse is faster than you'd think — if you know two shortcuts. Zoom In and Out Hold Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) and scroll your mouse wheel to zoom in and out on the timeline. This lets you quickly jump between a high-level
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When you shorten or remove gaps in Riverside's editor, it's tempting to trim them down to nothing — cutting right where one word ends and the next begins - or maybe the AI does that with the automated gap removal tool. The result sounds robotic. Words slam
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If you burn captions directly into your video in Descript, they become permanent — viewers can't turn them off. That's fine for social media clips, but for longer content hosted on Vimeo, Wistia, or YouTube, you typically want toggleable captions that viewers can enable or disable. The
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When Riverside removes gaps and silences from your recording, the cuts sometimes sound choppy — words get clipped, or the edit feels abrupt. The audio and video themselves are fine. The problem is in the transcription alignment. Riverside transcribes your recording at the word level, assigning timestamps to the start and
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If you've uploaded a video to Projects in Riverside and want to use it as a podcast episode in Hosting, here's how it actually works. You Don't Move Files — You Select Them Riverside doesn't have a "move to Hosting" feature.
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Apple just announced that video is coming to Apple Podcasts this spring. For the first time, podcasters will be able to deliver full video episodes directly inside Apple Podcasts — and listeners can seamlessly switch between audio and video without losing their place. This is a big deal for video podcasters.
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When Riverside automatically creates scenes from your recording, the scene breaks don't always land exactly where you want them. Maybe the break comes a second too early or cuts into a speaker's sentence. The good news: you can manually adjust scene break locations directly in the
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When you're editing a video in Riverside that switches between layouts — solo speaker, two-person interview, screen share — you probably don't want captions in the same position for every scene. A caption that looks great centered on a solo shot might overlap someone's face in
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Riverside has become one of the most powerful browser-based editors for podcasters and video creators. But recording is just the beginning — the real magic happens in the edit. In this comprehensive guide, I walk through every precision editing technique available in Riverside's editor, from AI-powered cleanup to manual
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Looped media such as GIFs are difficult to wrangle in Descript. In this short article, I show you how to control exactly where they start and stop.
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When you're editing a podcast or video interview in Riverside, the layout determines how speakers are arranged on screen. But you don't have to stick with the same layout for the entire episode. You can save custom scene layouts and reuse them across projects — building a