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The Riverside Editor: Full Walkthrough
A 24-minute screen-recording tour of Riverside's transcript-synced timeline, AI cleanup tools, and Co-Creator chat editor — from raw recording to multi-platform export.
July 16thThe argument in one line.
Riverside's four AI agents split production into prep, edit, clip and publish, so the creator spends attention on the conversation and approves results instead of doing the busywork.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A podcaster or YouTuber who interviews guests and loses hours to scheduling, studio setup, rough cuts and clip hunting.
- A solo creator already recording in Riverside who wants to know what the AI agents actually do before turning them on.
- A creator comparing AI-assisted production workflows who wants to see a full prep-to-publish run in one pass.
SKIP IF…
- You don't use Riverside or plan to; the workflow is specific to its studio, editor and mobile app.
- You want a critical comparison with other tools; this is a product walkthrough from Riverside itself.
The full version, fast.
Riverside's AI agents each own one stage of production. The Producer schedules the session, invites the guest, and preps the studio with branding, scenes, teleprompter questions and lower thirds. The Editor builds an editing plan, removes filler and pauses, applies the brand kit and generates motion graphics. The Clipper finds standalone moments, reframes them vertically and can Boost a clip with B-roll, music and transitions. The Marketer suggests when and where to post and writes captions, and nothing publishes without approval.
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00:00 – 00:41
01 · Introducing the four agents
Pitch of the prep-to-publish handoff and a quick intro to Producer, Editor, Clipper and Marketer.
00:41 – 03:33
02 · The Producer
Schedules the session, invites the guest by email and preps the studio with branding, scenes, teleprompter questions and lower thirds.
03:33 – 06:08
03 · The Editor
Builds an editing plan, cleans up the audio and pauses, applies the brand kit and generates motion graphics.
06:08 – 08:16
04 · The Clipper
Finds standalone moments, makes vertical clips and Boosts one with a style, B-roll and music.
08:16 – 09:44
05 · The Marketer
Suggests posting times and captions on mobile, then schedules posts once approved.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Riverside splits AI help into four agents, Producer, Editor, Clipper and Marketer, each tied to one stage from prep to publish.
- Cleaning up a recording and making a better episode are different jobs, and the Editor agent is aimed at the second one.
- The Producer can turn a pasted list of interview questions into teleprompter text and timed on-screen lower thirds.
- An agent that applies your brand kit only gets good results if the brand kit is already set up the way you want.
- The Editor asks clarifying questions, such as how heavy the cleanup should be, instead of guessing.
- The Editor can propose animated motion graphics from the conversation itself, like a line graph for a guest's point about videos flopping.
- A good short clip has to make sense to someone who hasn't heard the rest of the conversation.
- The Clipper accepts directed searches, like finding moments where the guest gives advice about landing a first paying client.
- Boost adds motion graphics, B-roll, music, punch-ins and transitions to a clip, and shows the AI credit cost before you generate.
- Nothing posts without approval, so the whole schedule can be reviewed and approved from a phone.
Hand off the busywork, keep the decisions
WHAT TO LEARN
AI agents work best when each owns one production stage and you stay in the loop to approve the creative calls.
- Schedule the session and invite the guest in chat, then paste your interview questions so they become teleprompter text and timed lower thirds.
- Set up your brand kit before asking an agent to apply it, because the output only matches what you have already defined.
- Ask for a light or heavy cleanup up front so the edit matches the tone of the conversation instead of over-polishing it.
- Ask for motion graphics suggestions based on the conversation itself, then preview each one before adding it to the timeline.
- Pick short clips that stand alone for a viewer who hasn't heard the rest, and direct the search toward a specific topic.
- Review suggested posting times and captions before approving, since nothing publishes without your sign-off.
Terms worth knowing.
- Riverside AI Agents
- Four chat-driven assistants inside Riverside that handle prep, editing, clipping and marketing for a recording.
- Magic Clips
- Short moments the Clipper pulls from a finished episode that are likely to work on their own on social platforms.
- Boost
- A Riverside option that layers motion graphics, B-roll, background music and transitions onto a chosen clip for a more finished look.
- Lower third
- A text banner shown in the lower part of the video frame, here used to display the interview question being asked.
- Brand kit
- Saved logo, colors, caption style and layout settings that the agents apply to a new edit.
Things they pointed at.
Lines you could clip.
03:36
“There is a difference between cleaning up a recording and making it a better episode.”
06:12
“Someone scrolling past hasn't heard the rest of this conversation, so the moment has to make sense on its own.”
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Oh, you did a great job. All right, we'll see you. Bye.
I just finished recording and my rough cut's already done? Okay, let me back up. Today, I'm going to show you how you can hand off your production work to AI agents that take you from prep to publish every step of the way.
Let's get into it. Now, there are four agents and each one has a different job. The producer helps prep you and your studio for recording.
The editor and the clipper pretty much speak for themselves. The editor, well, edits your episode. The clipper clips your content so it's ready to share.
And the marketer helps you get them out to your audience. We'll see each one of them in action, but first we need something to record. Let's say I'm interviewing a guest for my YouTube channel.
I'll start with the producer to get the recording scheduled and the studio ready. Now that I'm in my Riverside studio, you'll notice your AI agents are here and ready to get to work. To set up the studio, we're gonna use the producer.
I'm gonna give it a prompt to schedule my recording session. Schedule a recording session with my guests tomorrow at 12 p .m.
So now I'm pulled into the producer chat and it's showing me that it just scheduled the event. In this case, it's October 22nd and it's set for 12 p .m. my time.
Now, I could have put this in the same prompt, but I'm going to follow up by giving it my guests email and telling them to invite my guests to the session. So it asked me if I should send an invitation to that email for tomorrow's recording session. I went ahead and said yes.
And the producer is even asking me if I want to write a teleprompter script or talking points for the session. I actually already have that planned out, so I don't need that this time.
But now if we go to our planner, I can see right here on my schedule that I've got a recording with guests tomorrow at 12 p .m. And if I need to, I can come in here and edit any of the details. I can also see that my guest has been invited via email.
So now that we have the session scheduled, let's go ahead and prepare the studio. Now, the problem I'm going to give the producer is prep the studio with these interview questions, scenes, lower thirds and my branding. And underneath, I'll paste the interview questions that I had prepared.
So now it's going to go ahead and prep the studio for me so that when I'm hopping into everything's ready to go alright so let's go ahead and open up the studio and see if everything's done okay so now I'm in my studio and I'm already seeing that the branding has been applied I'm seeing that the logo is here on the top right let's check out scenes awesome so right here it's created an interview scene for me and it's created a guest spotlight.
So I can come in here and customize these exactly how I want. And if I open up the teleprompter, I can see that my interview questions are all here, but I can see that all my questions have made it right in here for me to review. And this is actually really cool.
When I open up the text panel here, it's actually taken a summary of my questions and created lower thirds that I can show here. This is awesome. So then right here, I can customize this and say, okay, for five seconds, and I can trigger.
this in the recording session. I can say show and it'll pull up this title here but that way i can show the questions that i'm actually asking my guest and then you can see them visually and this is all happening live that's really cool but at this point you know that your interview questions are prepped and you even have a couple of lower thirds that are ready to show related to your questions or you can add some more custom ones now my studio is ready and the producer stays here on the left during the recording so if my guest says something i want to explore a little bit more i can ask what would be a good follow -up question or i could just ask for recap of the session so far.
And coming soon, the producer will be able to suggest those follow -ups proactively without me having to ask. Now, once we finished recording, the producer hands things over to the editor and Clipper. They work together as a team to move the episode into the next stage.
Let's see what the editor can do with that. Now, keep in mind that there is a difference between cleaning up a recording and making it a better episode. Sometimes the conversation takes a minute to get going or your guest says something halfway through that would make a much stronger opening.
Now, those are the kind of decisions I want help with here. So let's go ahead and open up the edit for our recent recording. Now, I can see the editor has already created an editing plan here, so I can go ahead and just click start editing and it's going to open up the Riverside editor for me and we can start working with the editor here.
I've told it to start the editing plan. So it's gonna go ahead and say, prepare a rough cut. It's gonna remove filler words, shorten pauses, switch up layouts, polish the sound, apply my branding, and it's gonna add some extra visuals.
I'm curious to see what it does by itself. I've been through the whole recording. It's a relaxed interview and the strongest material starts once Ben asks the first real question.
I wanna keep it pretty casual. So I'm gonna go with light cleanup and I'm gonna select that. Now watching it work here, I can see that it's removed some pauses already.
At this point, I'm pretty much just answering questions that it's giving me. And this is the editing plan. that it already created.
So I haven't put in a single prompt of my own just yet, and I'm already well on my way with this edit. Now the editor has done all of that starting point with the smart mute, magic audio, smart layouts, filler words. Now it's ready to add branding, logo design, and caption style.
Okay, so it's gone ahead and applied my brand kit. I can already see that here. It's added this like layout for the split screen setup.
It's got my logo on the bottom left, and it's added captions. And one thing I will say, if you're telling it to like apply your brand kit and all that stuff, make sure you have all of that stuff already preset to how you want it to look, and that way you'll get the best results.
The editor can also help with motion graphics, even if you don't have a specific animation in mind. Here, I'm asking, do you have any suggestions for visual motion graphics in this edit? Not just text, but animated motion graphics.
It comes back with a few ideas based on our conversation. The first is an animated line graph to illustrate what my guest says about some videos doing well and others flopping. Let's start with that one.
I'll say generate the first motion graphic. Once it's finished, I can preview the animation right here in the chat before adding it to my timeline. I'll click add to timeline, then check how it looks in the edit.
Now we've got an animated visual alongside my guest, giving us another way to illustrate what we're talking about. Another suggestion was a subscribe animation, so I'll ask it to generate that one next. I can customize this to my branding and channel name, which I can preview and add where I want it in the episode.
So from that same conversation, we've got a visual to support what my guest is saying and a subscribe animation. call out all generated using the editor agent. At this point, this video is pretty much ready to export.
I'm still deciding how this episode should feel. I'm just able to spend more of my time reviewing the result and then shaping it. Now for the Clipper, making a great short clip is its own skill.
Someone scrolling past hasn't heard the rest of this conversation. So the moment has to make sense on its own and give them a reason to keep watching. The Clipper knows how to find those moments.
After recording, it goes through the episode and suggests the best parts worth sharing i can also give it a specific direction like find moments where ryan gives advice about getting your first paying client once i've picked my favorites i can say turn these moments into vertical clips for social media give each one a strong opening trim the ending add captions and my branding the clipper handles those edits including reframing the video so it works vertically and i can keep refining it through the chat so i can choose from its suggestions ask for something specific and make adjustments as a review and if there's a magic clip you really like you can take the edit of that clip even further with Boost.
Boost adds another layer of editing to your clip using things like motion graphics, B -roll, and background music to give it a more polished, finished look. So for this example, I'll go ahead and pick a magic clip that I really like and click boost. So let's go with this one.
I'm going to click boost. Now that's going to open up the edit with the clipper on the left hand side here. And first it asked me to choose a style that it wants my edit to be in.
Now there's a bunch of different options to choose from here, and each is going to give the clip a different type of editing look. I'm going to go with this one that says do the work. Now, once I've picked one, I can choose which elements I want to include in the edit.
Things like dynamic captions, motion graphics, background music, punch -ins and transitions, B -roll, or scene teleport hook. Now, you don't have to include everything on here. I'm just choosing what I think will work for this clip.
You can also see the AI credit cost next to the generate button here. And once I'm happy with my choices, I'll click generate and I'll let the clipper get to work. Now, this can take a few minutes to generate, but once it's finished, I've got a more polished, high quality edited clip.
that has motion graphics, B roll and captions ready to review and publish. And if there's any changes I want made, I can either have Clipper do them for me or I can do them here right in the editor. Now, at this point, we've got a full episode and a couple of clips.
Now we just need to get them in front of people using the marketer. And just so you know, you can also do every part of this process using Riverside's mobile app. You can go through the editing plan, you can cut clips and you can schedule posts.
So for this example, let's check out using the marketer directly on mobile. I'll start by asking suggest where and when to post these clips and write a caption for each one.
Now the marketer will put together a suggested schedule and the captions to go with it. I can review everything and ask for changes just like I would with the other agents. Now once I'm happy with everything I can say schedule these posts for the times you suggested.
Nothing posts without my approval so I can check the clips, adjust any wording, and approve the schedule all from my phone. But of course you can also do this on desktop. And now from that one interview we've got content scheduled and ready to reach our audience and that's what i like about this idea you can have help with the work around your recording while keeping your attention on the conversation and the creative decisions that matter to you if you want to try riverside's ai agents with your next recording you'll find the link in the description to get started and if you want to learn more about recording editing and creating better content with riverside i'll link a few more videos that you can check out right up here and in the description down below be sure to like this video and subscribe Subscribe for more content just like this.
And if you have any questions about AI agents, feel free to leave them in the comments. I'll be happy to answer them personally. Thank you so much for watching and we can't wait to see what you create.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The video opens on a finished recording and an already-finished rough cut, then backs up to show the four agents that got it there.
Named ideas worth stealing.
00:14list
Four-agent production handoff
- Producer
- Editor
- Clipper
- Marketer
Each agent owns one stage: the Producer preps you and the studio, the Editor edits the episode, the Clipper makes shareable clips, and the Marketer schedules them.
Steal forany recorded interview workflow
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
09:05product
“If you want to try Riverside's AI agents with your next recording, you'll find the link in the description to get started.”
Soft product CTA at the end, followed by pointers to related videos and a subscribe ask.
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Visual structure at a glance.
