 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here bringing you another video from a lovely afternoon here in Jerusalem So something about me is that when I get into a certain when I discover a new Technology platform that I like I get somewhat I tried I try to avoid using the word Evangelical specifically because I'm Jewish so it's a bit it's a bit strange me to say I become evangelical about something but I become a Big cheerleader for a certain when I encounter technology. I think is very very Innovative and exciting so something I've been using recently and recommending to clients because I do a lot of Streaming recording and helping clients with stuff like that is a product called Riverside FM And I received high praise from Curtis judge on YouTube who is someone I Immensely respect as an audio guru, but people are like, you know when you're when you're dealing with people who are let's say Without trying to send condescending less technical people say, oh, but we want to record using zoom What's what's what's this do? What's wrong with zoom where we know what zoom is So I thought I'd prepare this little explainer video that I can send to my friends or others Maybe not clients Who are hesitant? I'm just gonna explain what's unique about Riverside dot FM So Riverside FM is what's called a double-ended recording platform Sometimes known as a double-ender in slang and what that means basically is that it records things going on Locally and then syncs up to the cloud so before let's look at how your typical Zoom recording process works. So you have let's take a typical Guest host recording scenario, right? So you've got your guest remote recording. You've got your guests sitting in I don't know India and You've got your host Sitting in let's say the United States Okay, so if you were doing a podcast or remote video interview most people would use zoom for this So that's where their mind would go to first. So I've added a zoom zooms logo here just to Just to demonstrate how this works. So when you're doing a zoom call, right? You're gonna be using a webcam and that's going up to zoom and your host is also Going up to zoom now What's really going on is if you look at if you've ever Recorded using like OBS studio, which is what I'm using to actually record this video And you've recorded your webcam without any codec without any compression. It's very very heavy It's so heavy in fact that it would not be practical to stream to to stream the raw feed of your recording webcam to the other person because it would overwhelm the bandwidth available the person wouldn't be able to Basically it would be buffering like absolutely crazy So the way something like zoom works is that when you do a zoom call your Webcams video feed is going up to the cloud and remember the cloud is just someone else's computer So it's going up to zoom's servers But your webcam quality is being compressed on the way so that your your host can get it in real time And likewise their videos being compressed along the way, right? So you're actually seeing one another is compressed videos You may notice on a zoom call that you when you're on your own zoom You look great and sometimes if like you're at the person you're zooming with does a screen chair You look not so great The reason for that is you're looking at your local webcam in your zoom client And when you are the person you're zooming with does a screen chair You're looking at you as you see them. I know this is a little bit of a tongue-quister. It's getting hard for me to To keep this straight as well. So if you do something like record a zoom call Let's say zoom's clade recording, which is very good zoom clade recording You're going to be pulling out a recording from zoom here So what you're actually going to be getting is the compressed Video from both the guest and the host so you're losing an awful lot of you're sacrificing an awful lot of quality For no good reason. Now. Let's look at something like Riverside FM Riverside FM is something called a double-ended recording platform or a double-ender Now, let me just explain again using the same diagram format how it works. So it actually works Similarly in a sense, right? So when you're having when you're doing your remote zoom interviews You're going to be sending up your your data to Riverside FM Your guest or host or whoever is going to be also sending up their data via Riverside FM And you're going to be seeing each other in a live real compressed feed In other words, it's going to be so so that you can conduct the interview now That is where the similarity ends because there's a big other feature now There's a reason I'm copying and pasting the Riverside logo Two times so that's how the actual Inter interview works, but after you stop the interview There's an upload process and what happens during the upload process is that the local file So as you're having the interview you're seeing each other via Riverside FM But each person the guest and the host is Recording the original audio and video from their webcam without any compression The preserving the best possible quality on their local computer then when the recording session ends both parties are going to be Uploading and this is what this is when you when you're using Riverside FM You need to pre instruct your clients. You have to say after the interview There's going to be an upload process and you need to let the computer run, right? You it'll there'll be a pop-up But you have to as I said when you're dealing with sort of less tech savvy people You need to say whatever you do do not close the tab while the uploads happening because if you do There's different scenarios. Let's let's not cover that. So that's what happens That's the difference between Riverside FM and a double-ender you get the live feed is going to be this degraded quality Just so that people can see one another and have that conversation But then after and that's the difference between the problem with using zoom for remote interviews Etc. Etc. Is that zoom is a video conferencing platform? It's not designed to be a remote interview platform And something like Riverside FM or other double-ended recording platforms for audio Will basically they're designed for this kind of scenario So once you finish the recording the guest and the host both sync their data up to the Riverside FM cloud And then I'll do it a little arrow like this because they all end up in the cloud Eventually, but what what you're going to end up with in the cloud in this case is going to be the original audio Original video and something another thing Riverside FM does that's great is that it splits up the files You have your guest and your host Video and your guest and your host audio for separate files so you can play around with those However, you want so if you're a video editor, you know You can have side-by-side for a portion and then cut to full size for the guest full size for the host But everything is synchronized perfectly because of the way this works So that's basically why Riverside FM is not the same thing as recording interviews via zoom and that's also why I think it's pretty Amazing tech. 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