Watermark Removal (News logo, master damaged/unuseable)

[John Fishback]

I spent a minute trying to do this to your still with TopazLabs Photo AI. It’s not perfect. Just trying to see if AI could do it. I’m not familiar with an AI app that would remove this from moving footage. You could export the video as a PNG sequence, then fix each frame, and then turn them back into video. Might be faster than painting.

[Bill Hilferty]

thanks so much! I ended up using Runway ML’s remove object tool and told it to remove the watermark. it worked good enough for our purposes!

[John Fishback]

Glad you found a solution.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Bill and John,

John: Topaz Photo AI was an inspired choice, I would not have thought of that.
Just for “fun” it might be interesting to batch-process a PNG sequence?
Topaz has got info here:
https://docs.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo/functions/batch-processing

Bill, when I saw your post, my initial thought was from growing up in a time where you could not scan bank-notes on most flatbed scanners. That there might be a time where where watermarked videos might run the same risk.

Then, watermarking for copyright, these days are embedded in the picture as an invisible feature.

Atb
Mads

docs.topazlabs.com

Batch Processing | Topaz Photo AI

Select multiple images and import to the application, or drag and drop entire folders.

[Bill Hilferty]

For another clip with a different watermark which was arguably even tougher since people’s legs were moving behind it,I exported a JPG sequence and tried removing it in Photoshop using Generative Fill. I even set up an action to process every frame. Each frame looked great on its own, but playback was completely unusable. I ended up switching to Runway for that one as well. Might be fun to try Topaz next and see how it compares.