More and more podcasters are moving to remote recording with their guests and their cohost.
Why not take advantage of your remote recording software and record high-quality
video at the same time? So you can also have your podcast on YouTube. This can
be a lot easier said than done. So in this video, I'm going to show you the
best podcast-video-remote-recording solution that I've found so far.
Hey, welcome to the pod sound school, where we help podcasters make something big with their
podcast. I'm studio Steve. I'm a podcast producer and an audio engineer. And today,
we're going to talk about Riverside FM Riverside is a new software that I have
been introduced to or a solution you could call it that helps to record our podcast remotely.
Not only do they record really high-quality audio,
but they also record really high-quality video. In fact, they can support up to 4K video. There
are many great recording solutions out there that attempt to do what's called the double-ender or
to record locally on each person's machine. Meaning that it's going to record the video
and the audio from my computer first, and then it will upload it to the internet to share.
And it does that with each participant in the video or in the podcast episode.
So let's pop into Riverside real quick and take a look at what it looks like.
And then I'm actually going to send the invite link to Veronica,
and we're going to join a Riverside podcast session, and we're going to put it to the test.
We're going to run some USB microphones into each one of our computers, right. I'm going
to have the Canon M50, which is a four K camera plugged directly into my computer and use that.
And we're going to do a little mock podcast episode and see
what kind of video quality and audio quality we get from Riverside FM.
So let's jump into it. But before we do, please remember to hit subscribe here on our channel,
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and we'd love to get to know more about you and your project. Okay, let's dive in.
Okay. So here we are in the dashboard of Riverside dot F M. It's very easy to use,
very straightforward, with only a couple of buttons you have to press to get going.
And the first button you press is a new podcast. So I will click on that. And here, I'm going to
type this in "interview with Veronica." And then here I'm able to enable live call-ins.
You can have people actually call into
your podcast, which is awesome. And you can also record separate HD video tracks,
which is what we're going to do with this and put this to the test. Then I say, "create podcast."
I love that. It gives you these messages here. This is what's called the green room,
and the green room allows you to check your camera to make sure you're using the right camera.
And you can also check to make sure that you're using the right microphone.
So here you can see I'm using this Samson Q2U microphone. I can check my level.
That looks like a really good level. And my speakers are
going to my audio capture. Those are the speakers that I want to use for this as well.
So now, I can go ahead and join the session. If all of the settings are great
here, it also tells you that you want to make sure to use the Chrome browser.
Google Chrome browser is the only place right now that Riverside is hosted on. And then we'll
say "join session." Now I am in the session, and I'm just waiting for Veronica to join right here.
It says the recordings look and sound much better than what you see live. So
in order for Riverside to keep you connected, you will see the video quality kind of
get pixelated sometimes, or maybe the audio will sound a little internet,
but that's not how your final words. Coatings are going to sound, which is really cool.
So now, I can just copy this link and drop down into a text message and text it to Veronica. You
can also email the link. However, you want to give anybody that link. Hey, Veronica, how's it going?
Hello. Hello. So here we are in Riverside.fm Veronica's connected with me very easily.
Um, so all we have to do really, and I also showed you Barranca gets that same thing.
She gets a green room as well, where she's able to check for camera,
check what microphone she's using and the level of the microphone and everything. And she's got
her microphone all set up and it's best. If you could really get your guest in your cohost to
use a good microphone, USB microphone. And we always want to wear headphones as well.
And then once we're ready, we just say record here. And it gives both of us account down. So
you can see my screen here. But Veronica also sees this three, two, one countdown, and now the guest
and the host both know that it's recording. So here we would be in the midst of an awesome
podcast, right? And this is where this is where as a host, if I was really prepared, I would.
Bust into the podcast. Intro Bronco. If I were to jump in with an intro for my podcast,
I might also need to record a separate intro for my YouTube video. Right. So basically do you want
to do, is that you want to record a two intros, one for your video and one for your podcasts?
Your podcast, intro is going to include the normal things like your elevator pitch.
Okay. So, the summary and the call to action
and elevator pitch is a sentence or two saying, what your podcast is about.
The episode summary is what you're going to cover in the episode and the call to action is:
subscribe to my podcast, share my podcast, tag me on social media. Okay. So that makes sense.
So I would either at the first of the session here with you or the end, I would say, okay. Now,
would you mind helping me to record an intro for the YouTube channel too?
Let's talk about that a little bit. Let's talk about the differences between
a podcast episode and a YouTube video and some of the best practices.
What do you think the best practices are for a YouTube video? Now that we're going
to be sharing our faces and not just our microphones. So you might be wondering,
why can't I post the entire interview or the entire episode to YouTube
and not to do anything and not to say anything? Just that entire
episode. Your YouTube audience is going to be a little bit different than your podcast audience.
They're used to listen to an entire episode, skim multitask while you're listening to a
podcast. But when you're watching videos, you want to find the answer very quick
and you want to know from the get, go, why the video is going to provide for you. There is a
lot to cover when it comes to YouTube videos, but mainly you want to pay attention to three things.
The first one is setup. The second one is performance. And the third one is the
structure of your video. Yeah. So really just with the setup, you're looking at
things as far as where your camera's pointing, and that's like with your guests, if they have
a laptop camera and it's pointing up at their chin and you can see their ceiling, you know,
you can take some time to look at what's behind you, what's in the background, but then also.
Look at some lighting, a ring light is what we like to use. They're very
inexpensive. Or you can even sit in front
of an open window if it's daylight and let that natural daylight come and hit your face.
You want to have some lighting. That's going to be flattering on both you and your guest.
And then, number two is performance. Your performance is very important when it comes
to YouTube videos. You want to make sure that you're talking to the camera directly,
that you're transmitting that confidence, and also, you know,
make sure that your hair's done that if you're a woman that your makeup is done.
And you're wearing those things that make you feel good about yourself and super confident. And that
is going to show, it's going to show in your video and you're going to provide a better experience
for the person that you're interviewing a better experience for your viewers too.
And it can take some practice, and you just gotta put yourself out there and get em,
get embarrassed, get nervous, you know, and challenge yourself. It's a fun,
new challenge. It doesn't matter what you think you might look like
or whether you're insecure about what you look like in front of a camera.
You're Unique. You're beautiful the way you are. You just need to get
out there in front of the camera because it's really going to grow
your podcast. Yeah. So let's move on to number three, uh, to finish up this mock podcast episode,
and let's talk about structure wide, you're going to say, and that first piece of your video,
and first you want to start with a hook and the hook is that you're going to present the problem.
You're going to ask a question. Did you know that this and this, or have you been looking
for the answer to this? It's something that is going to spark curiosity, and it's going to
grab that person's attention. I love that with spark curiosity of something that people do all
the time with podcast episodes that you can also do with the podcast, YouTube video is you could
grab a section of your interview or your episode that was particularly funny or interesting.
Just a little, few seconds of that. And that can actually be your hook
that you can edit at the beginning of your video. Some people call that a stinger. What follows
after that is that you want to establish your authority. You want to share your credentials.
You want to introduce yourself. So something that we do is that we say what the channel is about.
And then we introduce ourselves, I'm Veronica. And I am the social media branding and content
strategies for the Pottstown school. So that sentence right there that tells people you are
in the right place. If you're looking for this. And that's really important, especially on YouTube
because people have a shorter attention span than they do on the podcast player.
So it's really important to hook them in and tell them right off the bat,
this is who we are. This is what this channel is about. This is what you can expect from this.
Video and make sure you stick around until the end so that you get this. So what we kind of touched
on a little bit of something in our PSS PSS formula, we call an audience retention statement,
and that basically is just why you should stick around until the end of this video,
where Veronica loses her temper and calls me an idiot.
Yeah. So that's a really good thing to stick in there right at the first. And then the other
thing is before you get into the meat and potatoes, before you get into the episode,
make sure that you ask them to subscribe. Yeah. And you forgot one thing. Tell your
viewers what the video is about. That's very important and what they're going to learn.
And like Stephen said, then you introduce that audience retention and just make sure
that you speak until the end, because we share. A tape that is going to change
your life or something along those lines. Just to summarize, you have:
1. The hook, that little sentence that sparks curiosity.
2. Then you introduce yourself and your channel,
and 3. then you tell them what they're going to learn.
And 4. then you do your audience retention,
which is: tell them what they should stick around until the end.
And 5. then you invite them to subscribe and like the video before you jump into that.
And then another thing you could really do that will
help to grow your YouTube channel over time is to
6. encourage engagement.
So to say, make sure that you comment on this video. Do you agree with me? Do you
disagree with me? I really want to get to know you. Uh, I will respond to all of your
comments. Those types of statements because that will help your YouTube
channel perform really well. If YouTube sees that people are engaging with your videos.
So now after we finish up this video interview here with Veronica, and we'll actually look at
these files that we got from Riverside, and we'll put them to the, and we'll see how
high quality I'm on a four K camera here at Veronica's on a large detect camera,
1080p camera on her side. So we can see how the video look and how you can pull that video into.
Video editing software and get very creative to make really good videos. But there is so
much that goes into making videos that are going to perform well on YouTube.
It can seem really overwhelming if you're still hesitating or thinking
about whether you should post your podcast on YouTube. We have this video right here.
Also, that will convince you to get your podcasts on YouTube and to follow our own advice. Please
comment on this channel. Let us know. Who's your favorite Veronica or me? One of us will definitely
respond to your comments. So please comment here. We love helping our pod skis grow their podcasts.
And with that, I think I'm going to say goodbye Veroncia, and we'll take a look at these videos.
What will you do if this was the end of the episode here is I would say,
and that's it. Thanks, Veronica. And she would say goodbye, and then I would
press stop here. You see, it says, we are uploading your video recording. Please keep
this tab open. And then up here, you can see how it says uploading local recording.
And it's at 75% on my end. And now I get a green thing that says your recording is uploaded,
and Veronica should probably get that on her side too, right? Yeah. And so that's what you want to
ask your guests. Can you please hang out until we see the green box that
says your recording is uploaded, and then you're actually good to disconnect.
So now we can actually say goodbye to Veronica on my end. You see, it says end podcast. What
does it say on your side? It says, "hang up." Oh, hang up. Okay. So Veronica can just press hang up,
and we'll say bye to her. And we'll take a look at where these recordings are at.
Bye. Okay. There, she hung up, and she's gone. So now
I can press "end podcast" here, and it says, "you ended the podcast."
You can refresh this page to rejoin the session, and that's great. So now I can go
to back to my dashboard, and I have all of my podcasts
projects here that Riverside. Saves for me on my account. So here interview with Veronica,
I can click on this, and I can say view recordings, and here's all the recordings.
And from the recordings, it's still processing the HD video. I imagine that could take a
minute to process that, but that's really cool. Then, you can retrieve MP3 backups if you want.
And there's different ways that you can download these. You can
download local separate track. So I'll get Veronica's audio, and I'll get her video.
And then, I'll have my video and my audio all in a separate track, which is perfect
for video and audio editing. If you really want to prioritize the highest quality audio,
but if you want something more like the company video that a zoom recording gives you. Uh,
you can choose this, which is "composed internet recordings,"
and this will be much lower quality, but it will kind of mix the two videos together
and make it so that it's just quick and easy for you to share your interview.
So that's an option too. You could also use that option to share on social media
and stuff like that as well. I'm going to pop back in here once these are done processing,
and we'll pull these files into Adobe premiere,
and we'll put them under a magnifying glass and put Riverside's technology to the test.
Okay. So the audio and video have been processed. So I'm just going to download the audio
and the video. Okay. There we go. They have to download it. Now let's pop over into premiere,
and let's first take a look at the video files. I'm most excited to see those.
So I can just say import here, or I can even hop down to the finder, and for my finder,
I can go to downloads, and I have these two video files, and I'll just drag these.
Into premiere here. If you don't make the sound,
it doesn't work properly. I'm going to start with mine. I'm just gonna right-click on it
and actually say "new sequence from clip." So my video comes with audio,
but this is already looking pretty good. It's not looking like it was streamed over the internet.
Let's make it nice and big. And actually, I'm going to make it full screen, and let's just
play through it and see what it is. And now the guest and the host. Both know that it's recording.
So here we would be. So this is looking really good. Let's just scroll through it a little bit
here. If you look at the resolution of this picture is very impressive.
Let's take a look at Veronica's video, and now we're just taking a look,
really get an idea of what Veronica's looks like. Would you look at that? I mean,
that was basically just recorded straight from Veronica's computer. Now, this was done with
a logic tech camera, but this looks great. We've got a lot of colors.
Now, what I can do is actually use this audio. You're going to want to use these wave
files and drag those into whatever project that you're working in, whatever video editing
software you're using and, and actually sync this audio up to the video to get even higher
quality audio because the audio that comes with the video from Riverside is a little lower quality
than the audio that actually comes with the isolated audio tracks that you can download.
So that could be a little bit tricky, but it's really not that hard. You just have to
match up the audio and then delete. Or mute the audio that came with the video tracks. So now I
want to pop over into regions and I just got to get a look at these audio files, what I'm under
a microscope and hear what they sound like, just the audio, because we're really good.
You can also be using Riverside FM to record our podcast remotely. So
we really want to make sure that the audio that's coming from Riverside is
super high quality. And now I'm just going to drag our microphones, our voices in here,
I'm going to put them on separate tracks. First. Let's listen to Veronica's voice.
I'm going to solo her. And I want to take a look at the audio files. I know for your video
and won for your podcast episode. So that's great. She's speaking through her blue Yeti,
and I can't hear any internet interference there that does not sound like it came over the internet
and that's because Riverside is recording it first on Veronica's computer and then uploading it way,
superior audio quality to a solution like zoom or Skype or any of these free solutions that
you can use when you're trying to connect remotely with your podcast cohosts or your podcast guests.
So my final takeaway with Riverside is that I am very impressed and I would definitely
recommend it to you and anybody who's looking to record their podcast remotely,
especially if you're looking to move your podcast to YouTube.
And then you have it Podski! Pretty cool, Right? Super simple, easy to use,
easy to talk with your guests about things they can do to improve their audio and their video.
And it's really amazing to me that we can get such high-quality video now with our podcasts.
There's no excuse. Not to turn a camera around on yourself in your podcasting workflow and get your
podcast up on YouTube. It will help your podcast grow. And if you want to learn even more about
how you can really make a great YouTube channel for your podcast, we have a free masterclass all
about how you can get your first hundred thousand scribers, a lot of ideas specific to pod-casters.
You can grab your seat for that free masterclass by going to pod sound, school.com/podcast on
YouTube. Awesome. I hope you found that really helpful! Leave any comments or ideas you have
in the comments below and, either Veronica or I will respond to your comments.
We love helping our pod skis grow their podcast, and we will catch you on the next video.