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JamieAnderson's avatar
JamieAnderson
Community Member
7 years ago

Poor Video Resolution in Rise

I'm experiencing some poor video resolution in Rise. Original video files have much better resolution than when they're played back in Rise.  What frame sizes correspond to the small, medium, and full width video display options in Rise?  I'd like to render my videos to these dimensions.  Any other suggestions for improving video resolution in Rise?

  • Hi folks! We have a new, helpful tip for maintaining high resolution video quality in your lessons:

    If you'd like a video to keep its specific file format and not undergo compression, you can opt-out of image optimization on a case-by-case basis. Just add _NOPROCESS_ to the name of your video file. It'll upload and display exactly as you saved it.

    * Keep in mind, using this method bypasses transcoding and compression, so learners may encounter issues with playback across different devices. File size limits still apply.

    For more media best practices, check out this article!

  • I too am experiencing a drop in quality, and it's pretty disappointing. It's a bad assumption that your customers cannot manage video resolutions and quality. To just make a blanket assumption like that, and one that obviously impacts the quality of our work for our customers, seems like a very poor decision. Set a size, resolution, or bitrate limits, or just ask us in a setting if we want to minimize the size of our projects. All that is reasonable. To reduce the quality of my work to save yourself some cheap disk space is not.

  • Alin Andronache - you my friend are a genius.  Thank you!!! 

    Looks like 2 years later, we still do not have an option to have higher quality videos. 

    This worked for a video uploaded to Storyline and used as a Storyline block in Rise 360.

  • Nearly at every turn with Rise I'm finding limitations.. the latest in a long line is the poor video quality. 

    Rise had such potential. 

  • AndyHoughton's avatar
    AndyHoughton
    Community Member

    Are you using video files eg .mp4 files or embedding videos. Embedding IMHO is the way to go as it enable what's called adaptive streaming - how YouTube works. 

    Scroll down to "Embedding videos in an authoring tool (Storyline)" and then there are some videos about adaptive streaming and advantages of embedding videos.

    https://whatyouneedtoknow.co.uk/embedding-videos/

  • So will there be a workaround for the loss in quality similar to your workaround with the photos? (adding _NOPROCESS_ to the title).  I need this to stay within rise online/using the link so i can't use Alin's workaround by exporting and swapping within the zip file.

    It's a bit frustrating/disappointing that this has not been solved after 3 years, and there is no warning within Rise to the loss of quality after you spend a lot of time editing and making videos look great.

    • Renz_Sevilla's avatar
      Renz_Sevilla
      Staff

      Hi Stephanie! Thanks for reaching out and I'm sorry to hear your video quality is changing when uploading to Rise 360. 

      If your videos continue to have a loss in quality even after following the recommendations in this article on best practices for videos in Rise, can you please share a copy of your file so we can take a look?  You can upload it here to submit a case privately.

      • AndyWYNTK's avatar
        AndyWYNTK
        Community Member

        From the best practice "Rise 360 compresses videos so they have smaller file sizes while maintaining quality" Doesn't Rise let you embed videos and if it does, shouldn't this be mentioned in the best practice.

        In this blog we talk about the benefits and show how to embed in Storyline
        https://whatyouneedtoknow.co.uk/go-ahead-embed/

  • My videos are .mp4 files, and they are loaded directly to the course—still poor quality.  I am going to try the workaround mentioned above.  I wish this weren't the case.  Business owners do not want to see this blurry quality during their review of the course.  

    • CNavarro's avatar
      CNavarro
      Former Staff

      Hi Michelle, sorry that you are experiencing issues with the quality of your video when uploading it into Rise 360. Sure thing, please try out the steps in the best practices for videos article, and if you still need help after, feel free to submit a case here. Our support engineers are ready to help. 

  • Hi there, Tomas!

    While I don't have any specific settings in Camtasia to recommend, you may want to try this workaround Peter shared in a similar discussion: 

    The workaround if just using Rise (as has already been stated by others on this forum) is to manually swap out the videos in the published SCORM file for your own optimised versions of the videos, retaining the naming conventions of the published videos.

  • TimWaldron's avatar
    TimWaldron
    Community Member

    I ran into the same problem. Videos for a software tutorial look quite blurry in Rise, due to what I presume is massive compression to reduce file size.

    External video hosting is sadly not possible due to corporate restrictions. Has there been any update on internal Rise video quality settings? (Probably not... but I guess I might as well ask.)

  • Hi there, Tim!

    While we haven't made updates to the Rise 360 video upload process, we'd love to have a closer look at your software tutorial video to see if we can make any recommendations.

    If that works for you, please open a case here and attach the video file. We'll delete it as soon as we're done taking a look! 

  • Hi folks! We have a new, helpful tip for maintaining high resolution video quality in your lessons:

    If you'd like a video to keep its specific file format and not undergo compression, you can opt-out of image optimization on a case-by-case basis. Just add _NOPROCESS_ to the name of your video file. It'll upload and display exactly as you saved it.

    * Keep in mind, using this method bypasses transcoding and compression, so learners may encounter issues with playback across different devices. File size limits still apply.

    For more media best practices, check out this article!