Riverside is an online audio and video recording platform that allows users to run and record webinars in 4K video quality, straight from their browser. It’s ideal for users who want to create studio-quality webinars and remote interviews, regardless of where they’re recording them from. Riverside also supports tools that let users separate audio and video trackers, Livestream Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. Transcription is also available on higher tiers and collaboration is easier on the platform’s shared work environment.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
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Languages | English |
Riverside podcasting app is easy to use for beginners and even more valuable is the resources and tutorials (blog posts, youtube channel, etc.) helping new podcasters get up and running.
Nothing to dislike. The technology, resources, and support are all super helpful. Only thing that could be helpful is having additional features or recommendations for beginners. Perhaps a glossary or wiki. But again, I think all of the info is available on the site and/or YouTube channel.
Getting started with podcasting. All in one solution for scheduling, recording, and editing the podcast.
It does exactly as you'd hope it does. Imagine the simplicity of a Google Meet or Zoom call. It just works. Super easy to invite people. Editing with their AI-speech-to-text is really good - plus they've just added fine-grain editing capabilities so I will now be able to edit fully within browser. I've only been using the service for 2 weeks and it's now an indispensible tool in my podcast production process. I upgraded after one episode to the full subscription. Love the 'export to Spotify Podcaster' capability too. Seamless.
I'd love if the service offered even more capabilities for export - e.g. if it could also do a lot of the social media publication aspects. But I'm just nitpicking because you asked. I think it's fantastic.
I absolutely LOVE the local recording of audio and video - and then the sound normalisation and noise reduction magic that happens in the background when I press those options is just fantastic.
I am very impresses with how well riverside works. As a podcaster recording internationally, it has always functioned well!
The cost... I am an undergraduate student learning from physicians about mission medicine and the price I pay to use this platform is a little steep...
None that I am aware of.
I love the ease of sending a client a link and not thinking twice about if they will be able to navigate Riverside.fm It's truly one of the most seamless processes I use
I have yet to master it on my iPad! It would be awesome to be able to use it from multiple computers and have the same easy peasy process I have on my desktop.
My favorite part of using Riverside.fm is the ability to extract my portion of the audio and video. I record sessions that may be viewed as compromising to some, so being able to assure my clients that I will never use your image not voice is key
I've used Riverside.fm a few times now and the quality is perfect. I'm so glad I switched from Zoom as my videos have greatly improved since I now have full screen 4K and HD video of my interviews along with crystal clear audio. No more choppiness or having the video flip to the speaker. This is great!
I've only had one issue thus far and it was that it took over an hour for a subject's video to upload from their browser due to internet connectivity. Riverside is working with me on improving this issue.
A guest's video took more time than it should've to upload. It constantly uploaded at 16% during the interview and then took more than an hour to finish uploading after the interview was completed. The team is looking into this matter so they can improve the service.
I love Riverside because of it's versatility. I can use it to record interviews for podcasts, casting sizzles to be used in the TV space, and record high quality audio in real time with voice actors while also providing them live feedback. It's easy to use and makes the best tool for anyone who works in both nonfiction and scripted entertainment production!
There aren't things I dislike about Riverside.fm. It's a really wonderful application - the only thing I can think of is how there's a bit of a learning curve with inviting people to your recording session, but once you do it the first time, it's easy!
Riverside.fm is helping me stay organized and provides a central location for me to record video and audio across various mediums. Before, I used to have to open a million apps in order to work across several projects, and now I only need one: Riverside.fm!
Local recordings of each person on the call that are put into the cloud automatically.
The enterprise price point is a little tough to sell to my team internally.
Recording interviews for marketing content is hard in a remote setting. This makes it painless to record in the highest quality possible without needing to trust the non-technical people we are interviewing.
I like that I can provide my guests with a link to access the studio, and they don't have to have a Riverside account to join. I also like the edit feature when recording multiple people, because it allows me to switch to 9:16 ratio, and allows me to stack participants.
I wish Riverside had a built in teleprompter for mobile devices. There is a free teleprompter that Riverside recommends when using Chrome on your laptop, but for my phone I have to use a separate teleprompter app.
Riverside is a great studio to use for recording video and/or audio content. I love that I can record video and audio, but only use the audio if I so wish.
The editor makes it easy to create clips or snapshots. Which is super helpful for when I'm in a flow of creating short-form content or cleaning up the long-form version. Also, the Adobe Premiere export is awesome since it provides high-res/quality assets.
When creating clips, that editor "starts" over. It would be more helpful if I could create multiple clips from on editor session and then export those clips seperately or as an adobe premiere file. The screen share videos seem to be low res. Not sure if that's because I'm using the wrong setting. But I've started using a seperate tool for monologs and tech ed videos. If there's something I can do this fix this, I'd love to know.
It produces high quality clips and seperate media files. The share links make it easy to invite guests into the studio via calendar invite. The AI clips are nice but I'll be nice when the clipping gets better, requiring less rework.
Very easy to use, great sound for recording.
Editing fuctions are not good, the magic clip AI is always wrong and useless.
Recording a podcast remotely
- Ease of use. - Embedded features. - Quality of the Audio.
- Price for monthly subscriptions. - Design of the pages (could be better).
Podcasting and audio quality
It records audio and video separately for each person so the quality is always good
Nothing much. It's been good so far for me
Helps me record my podcast easily and keep the quality high
The tutorials are spot on. The system is user friendly and has evebyhinh content creators need to make high quality videos for podcasts, tutorials, webinars. I've been able to cancel and stop using 3 different devices and just use Riverside.fm
Waiting for the email to notify you of the final recording. I wish it were just available in the audio recordings.
It combines my platforms into one and makes high quality finished product.
Riverside has local downloads that happen immediately during the recording. We get recordings almost immediately once the recording ends. Also, the purple.
You can't have two Riverside windows open. Also, you can't have multiple hosts in the same recording/stream. The two hosts would be a great improvement.
It's a great platform to record a virtual podcast. We're able to grow the show because we get good quality.
It's easy to use and focused on all the key basics: sound quality, video quality, and branding in the studio (including mutliple branded rooms).
No complaints right now. It's been super reliable.
Gives me more branding options and higher quality output.
The automatic local recording and uploading for guest audio and video is AMAZING!
Very occasionally recordings will not work correctly, and it's hard to find the actual location of the file in the cache on the local computer.
Before riverside we would have guests on podcasts record themselves, but we could not monitor their recording, and sometimes they would forget to send us their recording.
Riverside.fm is a very user-friendly platform for podcast newbies or the most experienced. The Studio is easy to use, and allows for adding special effects to your recording! The editing features are also very nice options including editing individual participant recordings or the recording as a whole. Exporting is really cool as the video can be removed and the recording can be saved in wav format or mp3. What is really the icing on the cake, is that it is affordable and if you ever have a question, customer service is quick to answer!! Now that is amazing :)
Sometimes the connectivity during a recording can be lost, but that could also be due to internet service as well. Also, recording can be very sensitive and pick up on background noises in spite of the noise cancellation feature.
Riverside.fm is helping to resolve interruptions in uploading recordings. There is a lot of helpful information available to address any technical concerns, but the customer service at Riverside.fm has always promptly supported any problems I have had.
The option to reduce background noise. An echo makes a huge difference. And the sound is always decent.
Sometimes the download takes a while; I'm not always 100% sure if full download has happened before I end the call.
It is giving me a platform. I trust to capture a great audio virtually. I interview people all over the world, so this is been a lifesaver.
Records at an excellent quality. The fact that you get 4 individual streams (audio and video separate) with 4 guests gives great flexibility. Easy ability to edit in the back end. Very easy to change aspect ratios after recording and make 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 or 4:5.
If you could zoom in on the wav file output and really trim at the exact millisecond, that would help. I think they are getting close to adding that though. It can be finnicky if you don't use Chrome.
Creating long-form content and then turning it into social content snippets that fit each channels best form factor. This can be done without any editing experience at all.
Riverside allows me to create high quality videos of multiple people in for a Global Company. Now we're (hopefully) past the major effects of Covid, many organisations have learned that working from home is a real posibility, and travel budgets have been cut. With Riverside, I can create awesome content that is relevant and valuable for the whole company.
I have not experienced any downsides when using Riverside. It's intuitive and easy to use and gives great quality videos every time. The few times I've had to contact support they've been very helpful.
Post covid, travel budgets have been cut. We use Riverside to meet with colleagues around the World and create high quality content for new hires as well as Enabling our Sales and customer teams.