I have a video interview with 2 people but only one of the lavalier’s worked so their levels are very different. Is Vocal Rider or Playlist Rider the best product to use to equalize levels?
Honestly, probably editing the clip gain by hand.
I wouldn’t use Vocal Rider for more than about 6dB louder/quieter, and at that difference there’ll be a noticeable “correction” time each time the speaker swaps.
Playlist Rider might be fine if the speakers take very clear turns at speaking, but in my experience it needs a few seconds to adjust, which will be very obvious. I use it on live broadcast mixes to account for differences between music and speaking (where there’s normally a minute or two of transition, and 8-10dB gain difference), but I’d rather be doing it by hand (if I had a third hand!).
If you’re in a DAW, it should be easy enough to see the quiet speaker’s parts and adjust. Or split them into a second track, since you’ll likely need separate processing entirely to try and make it sound like a close mic.
Not a fun situation, sorry. Just the kind of stuff we have to do when the hardware lets us down 
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Thanks. I’m attempting to use Premieres text based editing to separate speakers
Michael
You also might want to make sure the tone is reasonably balanced between the two voices as is the level of the acoustics/space.
You might need to automate these changes in and out if you don’t end up cutting the voices to two different tracks. But have a look at Clarity Vx Dereverb to help manage the acoustics and maybe use Curves AQ to help both speakers tonally match each other more closely. Or you could use an eq matching plugin, but that might be a slightly more involved process.