How to add Watermarks to your video

This guide will help you to place a watermark or TEXT on a video (AVI, MPEG, etc...) If you want to add a watermark, you must re-encode your video.

Tools Required:

1. VirtualDubMod

2. Image creation software (Windows Paint will do the job)

STEPS

1. PREPARE YOUR WATERMARK IMAGE

If your are creating a text watermark:

Open your image making software and make the background BLACK (you have to make it black to make it look translucent in ur movie) and create the text you wish to appear in the watermark, and place it on the black background. Save your image as. BMP or a .TGA file. Try to make it 200 (width) x 20 (height).

If u are putting an existing Image:

Simply open the image in Windows Paint and save it as a BMP or TGA file.

I'm using this image as an example...



If u are doing text...try to make a Text image precise and about the following size:



1. Setting up virtualdubmod.



Open Virtualdubmod, go to File > open video file:



Select your source video and hit the Open button.

You should now have something like this:



Now go to Video > Filters:



Click Add



Select Logo and click Ok.




Now, make sure that the screen that comes up looks exactly like this and add your logo by clicking the ... box.



Please follow these instructions below and choose what you like :





After you are satisfied with ur positioning and opacity...lets look at a preview..Click on Show Preview



And herez our preview!!



Once you are happy with your settings, click OK, and then OK again.

Then click File> Save As and name your filename and your output location. And it should start encoding.....



Just wait until its done encoding and you will have yourself a video with ur own watermark. Hurray!

Leave ur comments and suggestions please and if u encounter any problems please post them here.