• The cover is the thumbnail in the email or on the Landing Page that the customer will click on to see the video. It must be attractive and give a visual overview of the video / be graphically consistent with it. It is included in Vidata's quotes. *Be sure to ask at the kick-off whether a fixed or animated cover has been sold.
• To create a cover, all you have to do is create a pre-comp in the aepx file of our template that we call "Cover ", define its duration (e.g. 5 seconds), and add the animation you want and any variables you want to use.
• Generally, to make people want to click on it, we try to include a custom variable such as "First name and surname" and include a player and an arrow that clicks on it.
• As far as possible, all the information should be visible from the 1st frame in case the Gif cannot be read in the email or on a browser.
• Next, you need to fill in the associated 'Covers' part in the Json, and indicate the 'Path' and the name of the composition in which the platform should search, as for a classic 'share'.
• Vidata offers two types of cover, one fixed and the other in the form of an animated Gif.
• The fixed cover, or PNG cover, has a duration of one frame, in aepx like Json.

"Covers": [
{
"Start": 1,
"End": 1,
"RushType": "AE",
"Path": "Template_Croix_Rouge_FR.aepx",
"CompositionName": "COVER",
"Variables": [ "TXT_prenom" ],
"Condition": ""
},
],

• The animated cover, or animated gif, features an animation and can last several seconds.

  "Covers": [
  

  	// Cover F
  	{
  		"Start": 0,
  		"End": 134,
  		"RushType": "AE",
  		"Path": "Aesio_Template.aepx",
  		"CompositionName": "COVER_F",
  		"Variables": [ "TXT_prenom" ],
  		"Condition": "TXT_genre equals Femme"
  	},
  	// Cover H
  	{
  		"Start": 0,
  		"End": 134,
  		"RushType": "AE",
  		"Path": "Aesio_Template.aepx",
  		"CompositionName": "COVER_H",
  		"Variables": [ "TXT_prenom" ],
  		"Condition": "TXT_genre equals Homme"
  	},
  ],