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Creating a watermark
I would like to try to add a watermark to some video casts im doing, think Mtv logo in the corner of the screen!
What would be the best way of doing this? Would i have to create a graphic in AE, then drop it in as a layer to Premier for my editing? Or the other way around? Edit my footage, then bring it into AE, overlay the watermark, and render it out?
It doesnt have to animated at the moment, just a static graphic.
As ever, your collective wisdom is much appreciated.
Thanks all.
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Why not just create it in Photoshop, and overlay it in Premier? That would be the easiest solution for you.
Or even just export out a single frame in After Effects, if you don’t have Photoshop. Save yourself the rendering time :o)
All the best,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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… and it’s called a “bug” or “logo bug”, at least in North America. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_on-screen_graphic
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_3dlogo.htmlA watermark is placed in the center of the clip, large and obnoxious, to prevent unauthorized usage of the clip. Bugs are in the corner, of course.
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Most encoders have a watermark feature. This burns it, at highest possible rez, into the copy that goes out the door. If you place it into the video it will be reduced in size and encoded as pixels in the video instead of being inserted during the encode.
Each encoder has slightly different rules for size and alpha but most will take any still image format that will support alpha.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Indeed. Ian, if you meant “watermark” and not “bug”, my apologies.
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Cheers guys
It was a Bug that i was after, ill have a look into the encoder tho.Thanks again guys.
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