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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
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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.
I teach you video and podcast editing
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.
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.
When you download recordings from Riverside, you'll notice two video options: Raw video and Aligned video. If you plan to edit in external software like Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Descript, the aligned video is the one you want, especially if you've had more than one
Let me show you how I customize logo and brand in Riverside so your podcast or show consistently displays the right logo, colors, and placement across recordings and edits.
By default, Riverside records in 720p. But if your camera supports it, you can bump the recording quality up to 1080p or even 4K HD. Here's how to change the resolution setting. Find the Recording Settings Go to Settings in the Riverside sidebar, then click Studio settings. Select
I’ll show you a straightforward, repeatable process for creating and applying captions presets in Riverside so you don’t have to style captions from scratch for every video.
This new AI Tool in Riverside allows you to remove behind-the-scenes talk, mistakes and unnecessary segments from your recording.
Now you can host your podcast on Riverside and you can stop juggling downloads and uploads between recording, editing and distribution. This step-by-step guide shows exactly how to do it.
Need accurate transcription services without breaking the bank? Riverside has just launched a great and completely free transcription tool that could be exactly what you're looking for.
