Courses, Memberships, Digital Products in One Platform with Thinkific

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&

How to Activate Your Podcast Website on Riverside (FREE)

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

How to Add Guest Names and Titles in the Riverside Editor After Recording

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

How to Add Intros, Outros, Hooks, and Music in 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 of

How to Change the Transcript Language in Riverside After Recording

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

How to Invite an Editor to Your Riverside Account Without Sharing Full Access

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

How to Create AI Thumbnails in Riverside with Co-Creator

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

How to Send Review Links to Clients in Riverside

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&

Blue Background Appears in Camera on Mac? Here's the Fix

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'

How to Zoom and Pan the Riverside Timeline with Your Mouse

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

Leave Breathing Room When Removing Gaps in Riverside

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

How to Export SRT Subtitles from Descript for Toggleable Captions

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