I'm looking into using Riverside. Are there any things to look out for that might make things more difficult than need be?
ASKED BY · Tommy Shanson · ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA · 18 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:46:37
Riverside's Magic Audio feature improves poor audio but is heavy-handed; reduce the dry-wet slider to 60% for better results. Magic Edit removes filler words and pauses, which may not be desirable for natural-sounding dialogue.
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46:36I'll raise my hand. Hey, I'm looking into using Riverside. Yeah, that might make things more difficult than need be. No, Tommy, I'll tell you, I started using, I was using other methods to record my show, the Final Cut Grill, which I apologize. The other day at the end of the show, I said to everybody, thanks for watching the grill. We were not watching the grill.
47:01That was just a slip. I think Riverside's pretty great. It gets better all the time. They are hardcore upgrading it. I will tell you one thing it has. And, you know, to your point, Alexander, earlier you said, I don't know why people have bad audio. I'll tell you why they have bad audio because they don't have you there to record their audio for them.
47:22And quite often we get really bad audio out of Riverside, not because Riverside can't record good audio. I just did an episode with Doc Rock the other day, and, of course, you know, he's got good stuff, and it sounded great, and it recorded it fine. but people are sitting there on their laptop and they're looking at the ceiling and they're on the
47:39laptop mic and it sounds crap but um riverside has a new feature called magic audio which looks at the audio makes it better it's a little heavy-handed they also have a little dry wet slider and i have found that you let it analyze and magic the audio and then you pull the dry wet slider down to about 60 and it sounds really good i gotta say it sounds really good uh so i've
48:04been using that feature and you can, if you want, let it, you know, do a magic edit of your, of your thing. I think it's a little, um, the kids, uh, like to take out all of the filler words, all of the breaths, all of the pauses. I think those pauses are dramatic and good. I like to keep them in. So the magic edit overdoes all that stuff, but it's absolutely
48:34worth looking into and the features get better like every six months. It's pretty good. Next question. Henry Ramos in Yonkers New York asks, I have a project that will require some not complicated graphics and light animation. I'll hire a graphics artist for a day, but would like to explore using AI, any suggested platforms? Courtney. You can try any one of them, any of
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