r/RiversideFM

Hi - I am not a tech Wizz and might be missing something quite simple, but my wife has tasked me with editing some videos for her work. She does small podcast style videos specifically for her client work. When I used to add the captions to videos I could choose and make the highlighted colour a gradient colour, (e.g. we used pride/rainbow gradient colours as a highlight in world pride month, gradient green and red during December for holidays etc) but since the update I can't see how to do the gradient colours to highlight captions. Does anyone know how to do this? Would anyone be able tell me if this isn't an option anymore. Many thanks.

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With the new Riverside editor, I've noticed when I export the audio file (which I need to do for my podcast hosting platform) and pull it into garageband for final touchups, sometimes there's a popping noise that was never there before. any idea what that is or how to avoid it?

Like the title says.

1. Yes I have a paid account

2. Yes I toggled "watermark off" when exporting.

3. It only started this morning.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

The so called "help desk" email didn't read my email thoroughly and just told me to use the toggle.

Then they decided to completely ignore my request for customer support and ghosted me.

Edit:

Riverside started looking into it and couldn't figure out why it was happening. Then when the "billing cycle" renewed for the month, the problem went away. The Riverside team still not sure why. They "hope to have it fixed so it doesn't happen again".

I recently purchased a subscription for Riverside for an upcoming podcast launch. I did so because every creator I admire uses it. The vibe around the current product is not, shall we say...confidence-building. I made test recordings and the interface won't even give me enough vertical space to see the separate tracks. Was it always like this? I paid for a year. I may need to figure a way out of that. Ugh.

Hi everyone

The alumni group I volunteer for is looking to start a podcast and we're looking to use Riverside. It will be a mix of remote interviews and in person interviews. We've got the equipment for the remote interviews sorted, but we need to sort equipment for the in-person ones.

Its a non-profit group so our funds are limited, so we're looking at 3 Logitech webcams with bluetooth clip on mic's linked via a USB hub to a laptop so we can have multiple angles. For what i've found online we can only use modern macbooks for this, not windows laptops

I'm looking for any advice or tips from anyone who has done in person multi cam setups using Riverside. Can it be done with a windows laptop, what types of cameras did you use and how did you find the experience?

Really appreciate any help with this, we're a small team of volunteers trying to get this off the ground with not much experience 😵

I've been using Riverside for a year now. I'm not a super expert, but I use it pretty regularly. Riverside won't help me unless I email them directly for support, which is a massive waste of my time. I cannot crowdsource to get help from other users on their Facebook group, so I'm posting here.

1. I had the experience recently where I hadn't touched the edit for a recording in a couple of weeks and when I went back to continue editing the edit was gone. As in, absolutely nothing under the "Edits" tab. But as I was contacting tech support, within about 10 minutes (without any actual help from tech support, which kept assuming I was looking in the wrong place and sending me the same advice) the edit magically appeared, exactly where it was supposed to be. Does this sound familiar or correct to anyone?

2. Is there any way email addresses are able to be saved in the scheduler? I often have guests more than once, or we have to do more than one session, and it's a bear to continue to go back to my email program to copy and paste guest email addresses.

3. My podcast is about one person. That person's name is used constantly, as are the names of other people associated with them. The transcript never gets the spelling right. "Correct all" is only an option some of the time (and in my experience doesn't always work). Might there be plans for a "word bank" for words or names that get used all the time? Or does anyone else have a fix for this I don't know about?

4. I usually have people click a link to the desktop version of Riverside, but every once in a while we have a glitch that forces us to pivot to a phone or an iPad, in which case they download the app. Some of my guests are told they need to log in in order to do that. Is that true? Can someone tell me what the guest experience is when you access Riverside as a guest through the app? I hate asking people to log in.

What is going on with Riverside?? I cant open or edit older videos anymore. Previously there was a restore option, now there is no option AND I cant edit anything??

How am I supposed to release anything anymore 😩. So tired of thissss!!!!

I've used Riverside for 3.5 years to record guests. I've never used the tools to edit as they were clunky and I am a whiz on other software. So it was an easy place that I can have guests call in, I could hear what the audio was going to sound like, and be a good producer.

There's a break between seasons and I have no idea what they've changed, but it's a lot. I hate the new audio levels. I can't tell if my guests are actually peaking. If I turn off noise suppression since all my guests record in studios... it somehow adds background sound to force me to turn it on. If I have echo cancellation on because a guest doesn't have headphones, I start to hear non stop clicks that do not appear in the recording but are so agressive and distracting.

Before I could take my notes and know what the audio quality was going to be and now, no idea. Haven't a clue.

I asked them and their AI chatbot ultimately suggested me to "just ignore it and trust that the audio will sound good."

Sigh. No. I shouldn't have to. It's literally my job to make sure it sounds good. I shouldn't have to record it and hope for the best.

I've been using Riverside for many years with our podcast, and for the longest time it was the easy go-to. You recorded, live-streamed, and then had some ability to repurpose your content for your socials. It wasn't complicated, but it worked.

Now, Riverside seems to want to do everything, and the problem is that they don't really do anything well. The main reason I kept coming back to Riverside was because of the repurposing. The editor wasn't complicated or made for complicated edits, but that's fine when you're just pulling stuff from a podcast.

With the new rollouts, there always seems to be an issue every time we do a show. Live streaming is touch and go, with it falling out several times during the stream. Mic volumes off, camera feed shuts off randomly.

Then when you get to the product afterward, the new editor is so clunky and unresponsive it's insane. Yesterday I had a whole issue with support where the AI option to remove pauses wasn't working. Like I would toggle it on and nothing happened. It wasn't until support said the work around was to select "Apply to screenshare and media." A work around? It used to just work when you clicked on it making it really easy to clean up content.

I'm sure there are other products I can stack to get the results I am looking for, but in reality, Riverside seems to keep trying to add all these new features and none of them work that well. I miss when it was simpler and just worked. Now I don't feel confident any time I hit record or go live that it will work.

Rant over.

Is anyone else finding that since Riverside launched a "new and improved" editor, that transcription based editing no longer works well? It is no longer differentiating between a flub and the start of dialogue again.

Really disappointing.

I'm trying to upload external video, a thing I do every week for my video podcast, and for whatever reason not a single upload will take. I've been trying to upload since Saturday and today is Tuesday. Instead of uploading, I get the normal sequence of prompts and then when it says "uploading" on the modal window, the progress bar stays stuck at 0%. Also, if I click any other location on the screen, the modal upload window closes and the project stays empty.

I have tried to connect my google drive and upload the file that way, but it still errors out every time.

What can I do? Does anyone have a workaround?

So many hours of my life have been lost to this absolute nightmare dumpster fire of a platform. It almost seems like they're maliciously, intentionally making it the worst version of itself that it could possibly be. The fucking AI tools that don't work, the unusable editor, the constant issues with lag and files disappearing and guests struggling to find the room. I just have to rant because it's so bafflingly awful.

Hi everyone! 

After recently finishing my time on the Riverside Support team, I'm opening up availability for new freelance clients for both audio and video podcast editing**.**

A little about me:

🎙️ 16+ years of experience in professional audio production
🎧 6+ years editing podcasts (audio & video)
📈 Lead editor on a weekly podcast with 300+ episodes and well over 1 million downloads
💻 Former Riverside Support Audio Engineer, helping creators troubleshoot recordings, optimise workflows, and get the very best from the platform.

Whether you need:
• Full audio or video podcast editing
• Audio clean-up and mastering
• Short-form social clips
• Riverside platform and workflow consultations

I'd love to help.

If you're looking for someone who understands both the creative side of podcast production and the technical side of Riverside inside and out, feel free to send me a message.