Video file sizes increasing when Rise SCORM file is exported

I've been in touch with Chester and thought it would be helpful for others if I summarise our discussion:

Rise encodes every video in your course. Their encoder outputs video files with the following specs:

Video:  Frame rate: 29.97 fps   /    Total Bitrate: approx 600 to 800 kbps

Audio:  Audio Bitrate: 159-160 kbps   /   Audio sample rate: 44.100 kHz   /   Channels: Stereo

The Rise encoder will reduce video file sizes if you are uploading large videos, but may increase sizes if you are spending time to optimise and upload smaller videos. You have no way of knowing the final video sizes until a SCORM file is published and you inspect the contents.

Frame rates are always converted to 29.97fps even if the uploaded video has a lower frame rate, and resolution may be changed depending on the video uploaded.

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I have submitted a feature request to have an option (when you upload a video in Rise) to choose no video compression is applied when the SCORM file is published.

The workaround if just using Rise (as has already been stated buy 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.

(As a test, using the above workaround I reduced a Rise SCORM file containing ten videos from 199MB to 132MB)

Cheers,

Peter