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Written by Tomas Tarasovic
Updated over 2 months ago

You can now elevate your video content with Pages, designed for appealing presentations and seamless organization. With Pages, you can build a video repository of you best videos and playlists, and share it to your audience with ease.

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Create a page

It takes only a couple of clicks to create first draft of your page. To do so, navigate to Pages in the Library and click on Create Page in the top right corner.

screenshot of the empty state with the create page button highlighted

To start, you can title your page, and even add a short description, by clicking on the default Page name while drafting your page.

screenshot of the edit details menu for pages

To add the content to your page, simply start by clicking on + Add a new section button. You will be able to select from 5 different section layouts:

screenshot of a section selector
  • Spotlight

    Spotlight allows you to showcase most important videos on your page. With this layout you can add up to 10 videos. Videos will be added in the order you select them, however, you can always can reorder your videos, change them or even remove them from the Spotlight (either by selecting appropriate button on the thumbnail, or selecting them from a three dot menu that appears when you hover over the thumbnail).

    screenshot of spotlight section

  • Playlist

    With this section you can add any playlist you created or that you collaborate on. Any changes to the playlist will automatically update on your page.

    screenshot of playlist section

  • Single Video

    Adding a single video is another great way to highlight an important video on your page.

    screenshot of single video section

  • Double Video

    If one video is not enough, feel free to select the layout for Double video!

    screenshot of double video section

  • Triple Video

    And finally, you can select a layout that allows you to highlight three videos at once. Please note that the triple video layout does not feature video's description.

    screenshot of triple video section

You can add further sections by clicking on Add section in the top left corner, or by selecting + button on dividers.

screenshot of add section and + divider buttons

After you add more sections, you can drag-and drop them to change their order, or remove them. This can be done by hovering your mouse cursor over the section, revealing a control panel on the left that will allow you to perform those actions.

screenshot of the drag and drop control panel

If you need to change a color of the background gradient, you can do so by clicking on the three dots button next to Publish and selecting Swap header gradient.

swap header gradient screenshot

Once you are happy with your new page, click on Publish. This will make the page available for viewing to your audience.

Share you page

Sharing your page as easy as sharing individual videos or playlists. Clicking the Share button in top left corner will bring up share permissions window, through which you can select your audience, or invite editors to collaborate with. You can read more about share permissions here.

screenshot of the share button

When a video is added to a page, it will automatically change it's sharing permissions according to share permission you have set for the page.

Please note that viewers will not be able to access the page until it is published. You can however invite editors to your page even if it is unpublished and they will be able to see any edits.

Drafts and Published pages

Pages can have two states- Draft and Published.

Screenshot of draft/ published indicator

Your page is in a draft from the moment you start creating it, up until you publish it. While the page is in a draft, any changes you make will automatically save, allowing you to continue with edits at any time. Drafts will be only accessible to you and your designated editors.

Once your page is ready to be shared, click on Publish. Publishing the page will make it visible according to its sharing permissions.

screenshot of the publish button

If you then need to make any further changes to your page, click on the Edit button. You will once again enter the draft state that will autosave as you go. Your audience will not see any changes until you Publish draft, allowing you to experiment with any changes without a worry those changes will be visible until you approve them.

*screenshot of publish draft button

If you unpublish a page while there are new edits saved in a draft, you will be prompted whether you want to revert to already published page, or adopt changes from the draft.


Questions? Start a chat with our support team or reach us at help@vidcast.io

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