Build Branded, Reusable Scenes in Riverside Editor (Full Transcript)

Learn how Riverside’s new Scenes let you drag tiles freely, add branded backgrounds, apply animations and overlays, snap elements on the timeline, and reuse layouts.
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[00:00:00] Speaker 1: With Riverside's new editor, you can create custom professional scenes that are not only easy to create, but also look incredible with animations, text overlays, drag and drop tiles. So let me show you a few of the new things that you can do with scenes. I'm going to start with walking through how to do drag and drop tiles with a custom background. So here you have the grid view. It's pretty standard, one person on the left and one person on the right. But what you'll notice now is that you can actually take from the corners and drop and drag those tiles however you'd like them to appear. So it's no longer fixed at this kind of grid view that you saw before. Let's say also that I have a design for my background. I want it to look really branded. So I created a custom design beforehand, so I could either upload that, use any of these here, and I'll just take the one that I already created. And so it has the logo and our names at the bottom. I can just drag and drop those tiles and put them exactly where I'd like, have them aligned, and then I've created this custom scene. So let's also say that every time that I appear in grid view like this, I wanted to have this custom scene. You'll see at the bottom that you can apply it to this scene or two similar scenes. So now every time that I'm in grid view, I could have this really custom design. But that's not all you can do with these new scenes. Let me show you how to use overlays, animations, and create some other really cool effects to your videos that are also just easy to apply throughout. So now I'm in a different edit, and for this one, it's something that I'm teaching people. So I have different steps and different recommendations at the bottom of my videos, and I want to make sure that they all look the same. So here's something that I made. You can see that the text comes up and is animated, and then when it disappears, it's also animated. There's also a fade in the background so that you can read everything really clearly, and I'm going to show you step-by-step how I made that. So I'm just going to click into a place, and I want to go to my text and choose a title. I've already set my title in my brand kit, so it's in my branding. But my title here, let's just write step two, and then I want to have under it, choose your cover art. Great. So I want this to be aligned in the center. I'm going to drag it into place. But you can see in the video that you can't really see my text over here. It's kind of hidden by my shirt. So what I did instead is I'm going to go to my media, and I uploaded a fade image, and that fade image I'll now find under my media panel. So I'll click on this fade, and I want it to be full screen, and then I'm going to press move backward. I'll also press on the step two and do move forward. So now you can see it's a lot clearer to be able to see the text that I put here. I also want it to look nice when it comes on and off the screen. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to set them to fade on and off. I could also, let's say that I want one to slide in, I'll set it to that. So I'll just fade in and out. So now I'm going to shorten this just so that we can show it over here. And you could see when I shorten it, it snaps it automatically. You see that? Right to where the other ones are. So you can really make sure that it's all happening at the same time. So if I have a scene here, let's say that I made a scene, it'll also snap to the scenes. So it's much easier now to create with these scenes and keep everything in the time that you'd like. I could also drag here and have it snap for my scene. So here's how it looks when I play it. And you could see that it all animated onto the screen. They're all in the right order that I put them in. And so it's a very nice way to display my text. But I want to use this throughout my videos. Every time that I have a step, I want it to look like this. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to scene right here. I'll go to my scenes and I'll do save current scene. And that means that I can now apply it wherever I'd like. So maybe over here, I want to make a new scene. And for this, I just press scene and click here. And great, this is all already set up with the animations, the overlay, and the text that I chose. So now between these drag and drop tiles, customizing them with animation and text overlay, being able to snap them into place and save them, it's not only really easy to create these really professional scenes, but it also saves you a ton of time. So go check out scenes in the new editor. And we're excited to see what you create.

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The speaker demos Riverside’s new video editor “Scenes” feature. Users can drag-and-drop participant tiles to any position (not locked to grid), add branded custom backgrounds, and apply a layout to similar scenes for consistency. They also show how to build reusable animated text overlays (e.g., step titles) with a full-screen fade layer behind text for readability, control layering (move forward/backward), add entrance/exit animations (fade/slide), and use timeline snapping to align elements with each other and with scenes. Finally, they save the current scene as a preset and reuse it across the edit to maintain a consistent look while saving time.
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Demo: Creating and Reusing Custom Scenes in Riverside’s New Editor
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Arow Key Takeaways
  • Tiles are no longer fixed to a grid—participants can be resized and repositioned freely via drag-and-drop.
  • Upload or select branded backgrounds and align tiles to match a custom design (logo/names, etc.).
  • Apply a custom layout to the current scene or similar scenes to keep grid-style moments consistent.
  • Create readable step-by-step overlays by adding a full-screen fade layer behind text and adjusting layer order.
  • Add entrance/exit animations (fade/slide) to overlays for a polished look.
  • Use timeline snapping to align overlays and scenes precisely so elements appear/disappear together.
  • Save the current scene and reuse it elsewhere to maintain consistency and speed up editing.
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Positive: Upbeat, promotional tone emphasizing ease of use, professional results, and time savings; the speaker expresses excitement about what creators can build.
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