Ever need to brand your video? For many reasons we often have a need to make sure the files we produce don't end up being used without our permission. Watermarking is a great way of showing off your video while still maintaining control. Produced by Coby Rich, Product Marketing Manager, Sorenson Squeeze.
The watermarking filter can be applied to any output format within Squeeze 5. There are two ways to do this. First of all, I can edit a filter and click watermark. Choose the position of the watermark. I can preview the filter by using the slider bar above the window. As a default, the Squeeze vise is used, but you can use any JPG, PNG or GIF.
The other way to do it is to create a new filter by clicking on the plus button in the filter presets. I'll title this "Watermark". Now here I can click on watermark and choose the position...I always want it in the bottom right. So that's now my default watermark filter. I can apply this to my file, and there the watermark shows up. But I want to change it, I want to use a different icon than the Squeeze vise. So I'll browse to my computer, find the file that I want to use. Let's use this Sorenson Media JPEG. Doesn't look quite right yet. So I'm going to adjust the opacity and feathering a bit here, just to make sure it looks right on the video and blends in a little bit better. Then click OK. And now once I compress the output, you'll notice the final compressed output has the watermarking in it.
It's really a quick and painless way to make sure your encoded video has your mark. Available in Squeeze 5.
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