How to add a watermark to a video?

by Ryan On June 4, 2009 | DVD & Video | Hits: 489

Software you need: VirtualDubMod

When you publish videos to others or share your videos with your friends, you want to add a recognizable image or pattern in videos that appears as identifying code, since the watermark allows copyright protection or user and media identification. But do you know how to add a watermark to a video? Here we will give a guide on it.

Firstly, before starting this task, we highly recommend you an effective tool named VirtualDubMod. It's a unification of several popular modifications of the original VirtualDub video editing software.It supports MPEG-2 processing, and supports for various audio and video formats. You can edit your videos, for instance,adding a watermark a video with high quality and fast speed.

Otherwise, this free watermark to video adder software is designed to prcess linear video streams. With the aid of it, you can add different effects to videos, captures audio and video, delete segments of a video file, or to reorder them, etc. However, segments of different files cannot be mixed, and no transition effects can be applied.

Step by step guide: How to add a watermark to a video?

VirtualDubMod is a professional tool for adding a watermark to a video with just a few clicks. The following guide will show you how to add a watermark to a video.

Step1 Install and run VirtualDubMod

Make sure you install this softwar correctly. After running it, you can see the interface below:

Step2 A watermark is required.

You can make a text watermark, or use an existing image: (Here take the image watermark as an example.)

How to add a watermark to a video

Step3 Specify the settings of VirtualDubMod.

Go to "File > open video file", then select your source video and press the "Open" button.

You should now have something similar to the following:

Step4 Add the watermark to your video.

Go to "Video > Filters" , then click the "Add" button, scroll down to the " logo" filter:

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Click OK. Then Press the "�" button to the right of the Logo image field and select your watermark image.

Note: There are some options you can choose the effect you want to. If you tick the use gray channel of secondary image for alpha channel tickbox, just press the � button to the right of the Alpha image field and select your watermark image.

After you click OK, the final effect will appear:

How to add a watermark to a video

Note:If you have used the manual adjustment, this will also affect the presets, so if you change your mind and decide to use a preset instead of manually adjusting the placement of the watermark, make sure you set both the X offset and the Y offset back to 0, otherwise you might get some unexpected results.

Now are you still confused by how to add a watermark to a videos? I think this guide is clear enough. If you want to add some text watermakes to videos, you can have a try. What's more, this watermark adder software can easily add other effects to videos, or capture audios, etc. So it's worth downloading!

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