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&
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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
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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
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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 of
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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 a
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Riverside’s Editor add-on lets you bring in an outside editor to work on your recordings without giving them access to your full account. Here’s how it works and how to set it up. What the Editor Add-On Gives Access To When you invite someone as an editor, they
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Creating thumbnails used to mean opening a separate design tool, finding the right frame, and manually composing text and images. Riverside now handles it directly inside the editor through Co-Creator — the same AI assistant that generates titles, descriptions, and show notes, and works with you inside the editor. In this
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If you edit videos or podcasts for clients, you know the feedback loop: export the file, upload it to a review platform, wait for comments, download the notes, go back to your editor, make changes, and repeat. Tools like Frame.io and TechSmith Review exist specifically for this — but they&
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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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
A new feature to adjust colors has been added in Riverside and it could save a lot of back and forth in color correcting.
I host my show on Riverside and recently ran into an issue: even when I publish a video episode from Riverside, Spotify displays it as audio-only.
I walk through the exact steps I follow so you can replicate the same process and prepare metadata for YouTube without overworking each upload.
