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Thumbnails on Videos
I have added two videos into a lesson. Both just show as black boxes with the start arrow on them. Is there a way to put a thumbnail over it so it's more interesting than a black box? I've created this course in Rise 360.
Hi Anne,
We don't have the ability to add a custom thumbnail for Rise videos, although this feature has already been requested with our Rise engineers. We don't have an update yet on this, but I will let you know as soon as we hear more from our team about this feature.
I do know that the first frame of your videos is most likely just a black screen. If you have a video-editing tool, you can trim out this black screen. That way, you can make the first frame the one with the actual content itself.
thanks for the info and replying.
The video feeds directly into Rise without any problems, but when the video is output as a block in Stroyline, a black box appears in Rise with the start arrow on it and that looks messy.
Starting with the July 2021 update, you can add a course cover photo in the modern player. Just mark the Cover Photo box, then click the + Photo link to browse for an image. Choose the first slide, a media library asset, a Content Library 360 photo, or an image from your computer. After you’ve selected an image, click the file name link to refresh the preview area on the right so you can see how the image looks.
Thank you for replying. When you say mark the cover photo - is that referring to the Course cover photo itself? Or am I just not seeing where to do that for a video file I have within my course?
Thanks for the tip! I was able to get it to work by adding the cover photo which is available through the Player menu.
Wanted to share that while this isn't built into Rise, you can now easily drop in a custom thumbnail/poster image using the Mighty Chrome extension within Rise. Just go to your video, open the Mighty mod panel, and drop in your image!
