Forum Discussion
Rise changing color of MP4 videos
Hi Luciana,
Is there a solution to this? I've been facing the exact same issue right now.
Same issue to the topic I also found here:
2018
Thumbnail selection in Rise videos - Rise 360 Discussions - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
2019
Can I change a thumbnail on a video? - Rise 360 Discussions - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
2021
Rise changing color of MP4 videos - Rise 360 Discussions - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
2022
Video thumbnail oddly pixelated and discolored - Rise 360 Discussions - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
2022
Video preview looks grainy - Rise 360 Discussions - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
Hi Levon,
Happy to help!
It appears you shared links to forums for different issues in Rise 360. I'd like to ask a few questions to narrow down your experience:
- Are you seeing the shades of your videos change when uploaded to Rise 360?
- Are your videos pixelated or discolored, or is it just the thumbnail shown before the video is played?
- Is the behavior happening to all of your videos?
- Have you tried using Replay 360 to insert a high-resolution image at the beginning of your video to serve as the thumbnail?
Feel free to share a copy of your videos here or in private by opening a case with our support team so we can test it and see what's happening.
- LevonTrettin7 months agoCommunity Member
Hi Jose,
It appears you shared links to forums for different issues in Rise 360. I'd like to ask a few questions to narrow down your experience:
-> For me its all the Same Bucket: The lack of uploading a Thumbnail.
This would solve all the topics I collected above.Are you seeing the shades of your videos change when uploaded to Rise 360?
-> Yes
Are your videos pixelated or discolored, or is it just the thumbnail shown before the video is played?
-> It's just the Thumbnail - But the Video is also slightly compressed in the Quality. But not as much as a "normal Learner" would notice it. So the Video itself is not the Problem - Just the Thumbnail.
Is the behavior happening to all of your videos?
-> Yes - And I thought that this is normal. But than I saw the OG Rise Thumbnails ... That's a huge different in quality.
Have you tried using Replay 360 to insert a high-resolution image at the beginning of your video to serve as the thumbnail?
-> Yes - This was the workaround solution, the community gave me 2 years ago. I am using Premiere Pro, to create, cut an colorgrade my videos and to insert the first Frame as the Thumbnail. It's the automatically created Thumbnail that is appearing like a bad GIF.
Always, when I give the project to my customer, they complain about the bad Thumbnail. I Always say that this lays not in my hand. Its Articulate Rise. Until now it was always a problem that was tolerated. But lastly I lost 2 Clients because they were shocked how ugly their face looked like on the Thumbnail.
They thought I would Scam them and said, that I would blame the program Articulate Rise, rather than my embarrassing Design skills.You See - In my Opinion its not my fault and not the lack of Design skills. Its the depressing fact, that Articulate deprioritize the Thumbnail for almost 6 Years now. Not just for me - Obviously for a big part of your community, that wants to build high quality products with RISE ...
- PhilFoss7 months agoCommunity Member
Levon is an E-Learning Hero for putting together 6 years of receipts on this issue. The quickest hack solution is to save out a new thumbnail in your exported SCORM files, I show you how to do this using Adobe XD. The name of the thumbnail (or poster frame) is the same name as the video file, which is nice. Then I rabbit-holed the issue of the changing colors. It is the weirdest thing involving color modes of jpgs and gifs I've seen in about 6 years.