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How to add video and text side by side in Rise
I would like to build the text narrative to either the right or left of the video created in Peek instead of text only showing at the bottom. When the video starts, if the viewer doesn't have a headset or speakers, they will not be able to follow along with the video. Instead of having the text at the bottom, is there a way to display it either to the right or left of the video with the ability to scroll down either automatically or by the user?
Thanks for that suggestion, Gavin! While that's not on the roadmap right now, we'll let you know if we add a side-by-side text & video block in the future!
I did a short recording showing how this is possible (if you're nuts like me), I included several highly desired media/design requests including:
- side-by-side block columns (video + text)
- smaller video icon
- full custom cover pages with branding
- dark mode support (Sasquatch course)
- animated cover page, animated lesson titles
- boots with the fur (audio)
This is amazing, thank you!
It's really beautiful Phil! Thanks for calling this out Erika - it came up on my mail :)
I do believe it involve editing css/html on the published file, correct? And would have to be done on each course separately?
Great contribution Phil - Your work is inspiring!
Good news its very possible. It took a couple steps to get the iframes to display correctly, I'll probably make a vid if anyone is curious, and this will probably work with other media shared posts like instagram etc.
Oh wow, Phil! Steps pretty please and thank you!
Hi Osbia! While there isn't a way to add text to the right or left of a video in Rise 360, you can add closed captions to the video! This way, learners can turn on the closed captions if they don't have a headset or speakers to hear the video's audio.
Alyssa, one can choose either image or video in the "accordian" and "tabs" blocks - extending this useful option to the "image and text" block would be an excellent idea. I found this thread looking to see if such a thing was possible. If it's not on the roadmap, is there a feature suggestion mechanism we can use?
I would really love to see this as well! I thought I saw a screen short recording used in the Text & Image block once but cannot find it. Is there anyway to do something like that with a small video/screen recording?
Looking for the same - text next to video.
Gavin, thanks for the tip. We will use a tab for now but would prefer side-by-side so text and video carry similar weight on the page.
Would also love to see this!
Yes, this would be a very beneficial feature to have, can you please add?
Hi Todd,
I appreciate you taking the time to share what you’d like to see in Rise 360! We currently have a feature request logged for a video and text layout block, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice. We’ll update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap!
Thank you Kelly. I am working on a project that conveys 3 ways for customer service reps to say specific phrases to the customer as well. I didn't want the learner to have to read the information but hear it. I thought it would be great if I could use the 3-column grid for small, short videos or audio buttons could layout side by side. If that's lower hanging fruit for the developers (since the structure is there, just not the media options), that would be another great addition. Thanks!
