Forum Discussion
Can I change a thumbnail on a video?
Right now it is showing a black screen, is there a way to add a thumbnail image from my video as the cover instead of a black screen?
Hi Levon,
They still haven't put in a feature on Rise to change video thumbnails. From my own experiencing uploading videos into Rise, Rise takes the 1st frame as the thumbnail. If your video sequence starts with a solid black frame, then the thumbnail on Rise will be solid black. The only workaround I know of, and use, is the following:
- In whatever video editing/creation software you use, move everything one (1) frame to the right. Effectively, your whole sequence starts at frame 1.
- Generate the thumbnail you want to use. I use Premiere Pro's export frame function to image and import that into my project.
- Place the thumbnail onto your timeline and trim it to be 1 frame.
- Put this 1 frame long image at the very start of the timeline, before everything else.
- Export your video.
When you upload this to Rise, Rise will take the first frame of the video as the thumbnail to display.
Hope that helps.
Kind regards.
Hi Sam,
thanks for this perfectly written explanation. I am doing it exact the way you explained it. But then the second problem appears:
Video thumbnail oddly pixelated and discolored - Rise 360 Discussions - E-Learning Heroes (articulate.com)
... nothing to add here. Exactly this is my Problem at the moment.
Even the Workaround is not Working. But the Videos from Rise itself have a crystal clear thumbnail - But how?
