When it comes to recording high quality audio and video sessions/interviews conducted over the internet, Riverside has become one of the highest quality options available.
I reported on Riverside in June of 2020 and since then they have come A LONG WAY! And recently several podcast engineers that I trust have voiced their happiness with how Riverside is performing these days.
All recorded separately and locally:
- Audio recordings in .wav and .mp3 files at 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz
- Video recordings in 480p, 720p, 1080p and 2160p (4K!)
- Screen share recordings (audio and video)
And their Magic Compose feature can automatically combine all the separate recordings in post-production.
Personally I’m starting a new “reaction video” project soon and I’ll be using Riverside because I need to record audio/video of me and my remote cohost as well as record the audio/video of the video we’re reacting to. I’ll let you know how it goes 😉 …though I may not want to promote that project here because of all the idiotic social and political nonsense going on these days……hmmm….we’ll see.
Have YOU tried Riverside yet? What has your experience been?
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I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m going to. Sounds like they’ve figured some things out!
I’ve found their platform to be very user friendly, looks nice and attractive, and good customer service. They’ve been pumping out the youtube videos lately too.
You have to be careful about only using the Chrome browser, at least until they change that requirement. Using Firefox or something else will only give you an .mp3 recording, accompanied by the unnerving site of the recording progress bar being stuck at 0. But the recording will be there, they back up all their tracks in .mp3 in case anything goes wrong.
All in all it’s certainly one of the best options and they seem to have a bright future.