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Can I change a thumbnail on a video?
You forgot to mention there is a cost associated with the Mighty Chrome Extension and as soon as you stop paying for it all your customizations disappear.
I hear you, there is a little cost as we are maintaining with Articulate changes and it does go into read-only mode without the subscription. Wasn't meaning to come across Salesy there! I know most are hoping that Articulate puts this on their road map (me too!) Just wanted to provide an option in the meantime for those interested.
There is a manual workaround post-publish... you can do so by replacing the generated thumbnail after you publish your course. There is just a jpg file in the assets folder that you need to replace. There is a video here that goes over that.
Again, I know this thread is looking for a built in solution, just wanted to provide some alternatives!
When I recently trialled Mighty! browser extension, it functioned differently to how MarcBrown described above. And by recently, I trialled it 2 to 3 weeks ago, built stuff and still have the extension installed. I did remove it at one point to see what would happen if I did.
I did the trial and built some Rise content using the Mighty! extension. When the trial ended, I could not edit the Mighty! specific elements, but I could still view them. They were also still present and displaying/working correctly in Review360.
However, if you remove the extension, then you won't be able to see the Mighty! elements.
It is still something to bear in mind, of course, but there is a notable difference between "I can't see any Mighty! elements because I stopped paying" vs "I cannot edit the Mighty! elements because I stopped paying, but I can still see them if I have the browser extension still installed."
Until there's a proper solution built in by Rise, Rise currently takes the first frame of the video as the thumbnail so make that first, individual frame whatever it needs to be for the time being. If you can edit a video, you should know how to move everything on the timeline over a single frame to put something in at the start. It isn't great, but it's all we have for now within Rise itself.
