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Quick Render Watermark
I’d like to put a watermark over my entire 70 minute show before I send copies out for review on DVD. In a perfect world, I’d create a unique watermark for each recipient. But rendering a text overlay even once seems to take an eternity. Is there a trick, a workaround or something?
Years ago, I remember Avid had an effect called Stamp that served this purpose (as best I recall).
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
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You can do it in Compressor. Kick out the Quicktime file from FCP, then take that file into Compressor. Apply your DVD settings for compression. Double-click the video compression setting and under the filters tab, check the box next to watermark. Create a graphic or text element in a graphic program (it can have an alpha channel if you need it) and set that as the watermark. Use the preview screen to position the watermark where you want it and to set size and opacity. Then let Compressor do it’s magic. This also allows you to use different watermarks for different deliverables and doesn’t tie up FCP.
Hope that helps.
Jamie -
Dave and Jamie,
That should, at least for one watermark. I’m assuming I can do this as I’m compressing a reference file? At least I’d save a step.
Martin
2 x 2.26 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB RAM
OS 10.5.8
ATI Radeon HD 4870
FCP 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.6.6
Avid Media Composer 4.0.2.20 -
It should work with a reference file. If you need a different watermark for different DVD deliverables, just add another DVD compression setting to the reference file in Compressor and check the watermark tab and this time point it to a different watermark element. It should work fine for you.
Cheers,
Jamie -
One other consideration – if you’re using an image with an alpha, it seems to take longer. If it’s just text or a slap-on-the-top picture, it doesn’t take as much horsepower to render. That’s been my experience anyway.
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