Riverside Reviews & Product Details

Lots of communication, I enjoy the magic clip testing, it's helpful. I think the platform is easy for guests and hosts even with no experience to get two people in a room to talk!

I use a professional camera and the quality looks fuzzier and not professional as it does when actuallt recording. This is something I'm working out with the team currently, so I don't foresee it being a long-term issue because they're so responsive, and can help me understand what I need to do to improve the footage!

Quality content for my podcast, clips for reels, and better experience for my guests.

It was so incredibly easy to sign up and start using Riverside. The tutorials and support is top notch and the ease of starting was so refreshing!

So far I haven't run into any down side to Riverside.fm.

Riverside.fm is a one stop shop for hosting my podcast making it easy to start up and get going.

Riverside is a no-brainer for podcasters! The audio quality is so much better thant the traditioinal video conferencing platforms. Further, the features are easy to use and fun. Finally, Riverside has done an outstanding job of building real community. An absolute pleasure

Only thing missing is virtual backgrounds

Much better sound and video production. Being able to create clips and easily share them to social channels is extremely helpful. Further, being able to share with my guests is a game changer.

The upside of using Riverside is that you are guarenteed high quality audio and video. It also auto creates transcripts and social media video content!

It's not intuitive and the onbarding took longer than expected.

All my recorded content in one place!

It's so easy to use. You set up the studio and hit record. The tools during recording are simple and the ability to download video and audio separately is super useful. It makes editing so much easier, whether you're using the built in editor or a third party solution. I honestly wouldn't use anything else.

I can't think of anything. For my needs it's perfect. My only concern, if it can be called that, is the jump in monthly subscription if I need to use it more. But that's it.

It's giving me a really straight forward way of recording my content without the need for any prior knowledge or technical ability. I just set up and go, which is awesome.

I own a video production business in Colorado and took an assignment to do interviews with some high level people around the world. The client did not want to or have time to interview each interviewee in person on location, so I was tasked with finding an alternative option. I came across Riverside.fm. I was a little intimidated and skeptical at first to try to record a video online and have any sort of decent quality. After the first recording I was blown away at how easy it was. None of the people that i have done inteviews with are technical types and so far nobody has had a problem loging in. My client has had some feedback from the board and they are saying that the video interviews are going better than any in the past. I love that it records locally and then uploads the video to the cloud. I don't have to worry if the connection is poor or grainy. I know the recorded segment will be fine. The ability to download the file for Adobe Premiere is great. I simply download the file drop it in my bin and open the timeline. I can then choose to cut out my audio and video and edit down the interviewee. There is an edit timeline built into Riverside which is nice to use if you want to cut it down and remove the silent gaps in the project. I used it on the first interview and it works great. I can cut quick in Premiere so I am doing it there now but if you needed to edit in Riverside it is a great tool. I am sure as I continue to use it I will find even more value in it. I had one interviewee log off to quick and the video had not finished uploading but it notified me immidiatly and sent me a link to send him for uploading it. I think it may have even sent him a link as well. I give it an A+ and great support if you need it.

I have to make sure that all the people I invite to the studio are on Edge or Chrome. I typically do not use either browser, but maybe the rest of the world does.

It allows me to do video interviews remotely.

We at Curiosity Continuum home grew our podcast from humble beginnings, figuring out how to make it work in bootstrap fashion. Riverside is the first platform we decided to pay for to help us at the recommendation of a trusted colleague who had used Riverside for years. What a difference. We have cut our post production time dramatically and recording and syncing is easy. Transcriptions are strong. You get a lot of creative leverage out of this platfom. We have been podcasting for years, and this elevated our production game.

Not a downside per se, but more of something Riverside should warn you about. We get charged foreign transaction fees for our payment, which after I was told that the company uses a place in the Netherlands (I think!) for their processing worldwide, that made sense. However, I wasn't expecting the charge. Some more overt messages and warnings about this would be helpful to the customer.

Eficiencies in post prodution dramatic, cutting out at least 60% edit time. Great at syncing audio over wonky internet connections, which saved sync in post production. Guests can easily join and it makes it more turnkey ready for such things. We are experienced podcasters and this made our workflow much easier.

Efficient and easy to use. can spend more time preparing content rather than the equipment and technology to record.

That guests tend to leave before their video uploads, this is inconvenient. Hopefully there's a way to workaround this or avoid this in the future.

Video recording quality, ease of interviewing, hosting the recordings in one place without taking up storage.

The automatic sound leveling is super cool! And also the SOME-ready video bites that the AI pulls out are quite good.

Editing options are limited - I use CapCut for that.

With Riverside it's easy for me to host podcasts / webinars with remote participants. The audio and video quality are good. RIverside helps me make small bites for sharing on SOME as well. That's a cool feature.

I love that you can easily mark clips as you are recording and then easily turn those into social media clips. They make it really easy to record, put quotes and video clips and download a transcript.

I have not found any features yet I would like added. They are pretty on top of what podcasters need!

Riverside is helping our business create podcasts by making it easy for us as podcast newbies to do everything we need in one place. No need to have a seperate transcription or video service.

I like how the quality is always stellar as it's saved on each guest's device first then uploaded. That way, even with a bad WIFI connection, the end result is still professional. I'm also really loving the Magic Clips feature they're not testing. It's SO HELPFUL in making short clips of any conversation!

Not being able to blur the background or add a different background is probably the feature that needs most improvement, in my opinion. It also is a bit intimidating for guests that aren't comfortable with tech to use. Although the directions are pretty straight forward!

It makes it easy for amateur video editors to make high quality videos ANS SHORTER CLIPS! It's great. It makes it easy and quick. I even had someone message me complementing my video for its quality. I immediately recommended riverside.fm!

I've been using Riverside both for video podcasting and for conducting customer interviews for market research purposes. I love that it records audio and video locally to both my computer as the host and the guest's computer. This ensures that there is no lag in the final output. The video quality is 720 and looks really sharp.

I've noticed that when there are more than 2 people being recorded, that it can become quite laggy--more delay than with something like Google Meet. That being said, these problems can be mitigated by turning on some of the low data tools.

It's solving the problem of getting a final video output from a podcast interview that is free of digital lagging or audio issues (since it's being recorded to each user's local machine and uploaded to the cloud afterward.)

Functionality and ease of use. Transcripts.

Must have high speed internet for it to work well, which is to be expected really. I would like more advanced audio editing options.

I appreciate having a functional easy to use space to welcome my podcast guests into. And I love that I can create different studios.

I have been using Riverside for less than a year and I have seen so many upgrades that delight me. I am now able to create and review a test recording before I start for peace of mind. A very nice surprise is that there's now also a section for telepromter text.

More video editing optionswhen I use Riverside to share my screen. I would like to be able to have my video in a circle or other shape in a corner of the screenshare.

I am able to create quality video that I can import into the video editor I use, compared to zoom videos that don't work. I also use Riverside for interviews/podcast.

I love the quality of the videos. The picture is great and the sound is clear. I also love the magic clips for creating shorts.

I personally have not had a negative experience so far with this platform. If I had to give any critques, I would only say to please continue to roll out the upgrades!

Riverside helped me to find a great platform to host my podcast video and audio.