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Rise changing color of MP4 videos
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.
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 ...
- PhilFoss8 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.
- JohnPinkster-1918 days agoCommunity Member
For those following this issue, you can do this with Mighty's Chrome Extension which will allow you to upload your own custom video thumbnail/poster image 😃