The producer role: Details

Plan: All Plans

Producers help the host monitor the recording session and can adjust most studio settings. Multiple producers can join a session.

Producers can be seen during the recording session if they have their mic and camera on. Producers are not recorded and are not seen or heard in a live stream on other platforms. However, if a producer shares their screen, uses the media board, or shares a presentation, these elements are recorded as separate tracks.

Producers can join the session in one of two ways, with a Riverside account or without. If you join while not logged in you will still have access to most of the producer capabilities, but not all. 

External producers

Only Business plans can invite external producers via email.

External producers enjoy nearly all the same features as producers. They are typically invited as third parties rather than having formal seats in the production team's shared account. If you join a studio using a producer's invitation link, but are not logged into the account, you are considered an External producer.

This is a great way to invite people to join you for a session if they don't have Riverside, without giving them a seat or full access to your account.
For example: 

  • You've hired a freelance audio engineer to help you run the show
  • You are interviewing someone who has their own assistant
  • Someone outside of your organization is helping you monitor the session, but you don't necessarily need them to have access to the files after the show. 

Studio settings

Below you can find a table of features and permissions based on role and platform.

Studio features Producer External producer
Computer Mobile app
Adjust another participant's output volume checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Adjust own output volume checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Turn participants' individual echo cancellation on or off checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  

Turn your own echo cancellation on or off

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Update in-studio participant thumbnail checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Enable low data mode checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Mute own mobile device's audio output checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg

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Adjust temperature and exposure of participant's mobile camera (camera controls) checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg
(iOS only)
Set up live streaming to other platforms checkmark-yes.svg   checkmark-yes.svg  

Studio actions

Producer role - Riverside for Business studio features Producer External producer
Computer Mobile app
Accept guests waiting in the lobby checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg
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Host/producer need to accept you from the waiting room before entering the studio checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg    
Remove a participant from the studio checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg
Send a private message to a guest, host, or producer checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg
View live recording length checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg
Share messages with all other studio participants checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg
Invite people with studio access link checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Mute or unmute a participant's microphone checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Add markers while recording checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Use teleprompter in the studio
(depending on subscription plan)
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Manage live call-ins with audience members checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Share computer's screen checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Help a participant change their mic, camera, or speaker checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Change video frame size in studio checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Prompt a participant to turn their camera on or off checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Upload and play files on the Media Board checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Add lower thirds and text banners in the studio checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg checkmark-yes.svg  
Start and stop recordings (You must be logged in to your Riverside for Business account and join the studio as a producer to start and stop recordings.) checkmark-yes.svg   checkmark-yes.svg  
Download group chat in studio checkmark-yes.svg   checkmark-yes.svg  
Add a logo to the studio  checkmark-yes.svg   checkmark-yes.svg  
Add a background image to the studio checkmark-yes.svg   checkmark-yes.svg  

 

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