Riverside.fm streams live to YouTube and LinkedIn simultaneously while recording studio quality locally

I run a weekly live show that I want to exist both as a live broadcast and as a high-quality edited podcast afterward. The problem I had been navigating was that tools optimized for live streaming produce compressed recordings that do not hold up well for post-production, and tools optimized for recording quality do not have live streaming capability.

Riverside.fm does both and I want to explain specifically how that works.

The Local Recording principle means that while the live stream is going out to YouTube and LinkedIn, each participant's audio and video is simultaneously being recorded at full quality locally on their device. The stream viewers get the live experience. The post-production I do afterward is from the uncompressed local recordings rather than from the stream output.

That means the finished podcast episode sounds like a studio recording rather than like a captured stream. The 4K video and lossless audio are what make the edited version genuinely broadcast quality rather than something I am apologizing for in the show notes.

The AI Magic Clips feature automatically identifies the most engaging moments after the recording ends. For turning a 60-minute live show into social clips without watching the whole thing back to find the highlights that is a meaningful time saving.

The Text-Based Editor for removing filler words and mistakes by editing the transcript keeps the post-production step fast. The Multi-Track Recording gives each participant their own track for independent level and EQ adjustment.