How to Manage Your Citadel Account

How to Manage Your Citadel Account

Uploading Videos

  • Click on View Library 
  • Press Upload New Video 
  • Select the video you are wishing to upload when prompted
  • Once the video is done loading, it is now uploaded to the library.

Attach Videos from Your Video Library to Your Screens

  • Go to View Screens 
  • Click the screen you'd like to apply the video to
  • Select Playback 
  • Click on the videos you'd like to apply to the screen, the blue outline means it has been selected.
  • As you can see on the bottom of each selected video there is a "Play every___minutes" section. If you would like to schedule each video to play at a specific number of minutes, type the number of minutes in that section.

Preview Videos on your Subscribed Playlists

  • Click on View Library
  • Click on Subscribed Playlists
  • Click on the playlist you wish to view
  • Once clicked, you will see the videos, click on the video you want to preview and it will begin playing

Attach Videos from your Subscribed Playlists to Your Screens

  • Go to View Screens
  • Click on the screen you would like to apply the videos to
  • Click on Playback
  • From playback, scroll down to your subscribed playlists & click on the playlists you would like to select videos from
  • When you click the playlists, the videos will appear, to select the video simply click on it OR press Select All to apply all of the videos.

Creating Screens 

  • Login to Citadel Portal
  • From the home page go to the screens tab
  • Press Create Screen
  • Name the New Screen, click Create
  • Congrats Your Screen is Created!

Content Creator

  • Open Content Creator by clicking “Content Creator” under Videos on the homepage of Athena
  • Once you open content creator you can begin creating your video, you can start by uploading an image, a video, adding text, or adding a shape. To do so click one of the icons shown in the upper left corner (NOTE: You can add all four of these options to one slide, you can add multiple of each of these four to one slide as well)
  • As you click either the Image or Video option you will find under Object Properties the ability to select a file from your computer
  • When you add text to the screen, you can edit the text on the right hand side
  • You can add music or sound to your video by clicking “Upload Music” in the lower right corner (The file must be an MP3 file)
  • To edit the background color, slide duration, and intro/outro transition, click on Slide Settings in the upper right corner
  • Once you are happy with your first slide and you would like to add a new slide, click + New Slide on the bottom bar
  • Repeat all steps above to continue creating and adding slides! Once you are happy with your finished video, click Generate Video in the upper right corner
  • After you press generate video your video will begin to render, you can track the progress of your video rendering here (as each part finishes a green check will appear next to each step)
  • Now you can choose to either download your video or add to the library
  • If you choose download video your video will begin downloading to your computer, if you select add to library you can name your video and it will now appear in your library under Video Library from the home page
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