Rise Canvas

Small but useful update in the latest release. 

The Video builder now has a 9:16 portrait option in the aspect-ratio row, alongside the existing landscape and square ratios.

More and more course content is being filmed in portrait on phones, but Rise's standard video block is built for landscape, so a portrait clip ends up shrunk into a small strip with empty space either side, especially on mobile. Selecting 9:16 fixes this: the player switches to a portrait frame so the video fills it properly, and it's automatically capped to a sensible phone-width and centred so it doesn't tower down the page on desktop. On a phone held upright, it scales to fit the screen the way the footage was meant to be seen.

It works with both YouTube/Vimeo links and direct video file uploads.