Video watermarks

Goal: overlay your logo onto delivered videos, either for a whole collection at once or as a one-off override on a single video.

Prerequisites

  • A PNG image of your logo or mark — other formats (even a .jpg renamed to .png) are rejected, the same rule as photo watermarks.
  • A video collection with at least one video — see Upload videos.

Setting a collection watermark

  1. Open the collection and go to its Watermark tab.
  2. Choose a PNG under Watermark image.
  3. Pick a Position: bottom-right (the default), bottom-left, top-right, top-left, or center.
  4. Set Size as a percentage of the video's width, Opacity (default 60%), and Margin (default 3%).
  5. Click Save Watermark.
A collection watermark applies to every video in that collection that's set to Inherit (the default for new videos). Saving re-encodes those videos in the background on the throttled video queue — this can take a while for large videos, and roughly doubles their storage use while both the original and watermarked derivative exist. Audio-only files (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC) are never watermarked, regardless of mode — there's no picture to overlay a mark on — and their Watermark tab shows "not applicable" instead of a status.

Check Remove watermark on the Watermark tab and save to clear the collection watermark entirely — inheriting videos are re-processed back to their unwatermarked state.

Overriding the watermark on a single video

Sometimes one video in a collection needs different treatment than the rest — a client-supplied video with its own branding, or a video that shouldn't carry your mark at all. Open that video's page and go to its own Watermark tab:

  1. Set Watermark mode to one of:
    • Inherit collection watermark (default) — uses whatever is set on the collection, if anything.
    • No watermark — this video is delivered clean regardless of the collection setting.
    • Custom for this video — upload a different PNG with its own position, size, opacity, and margin, just for this video.
  2. Click Save Watermark.

The Watermark tab shows a Current version watermark status line (ready, processing, none, or not applicable for audio-only files) so you can tell whether the background re-encode has finished for the video's current version.

Uploading a new version of a video (see Versioning & approval) automatically re-applies whatever watermark setting — inherited or custom — is active for that video, so you don't need to redo it after every revision.

What clients see

Clients and anyone using a shortlink always receive the watermarked derivative once it's ready; the original, unwatermarked file is kept but withheld from delivery. If a watermark is still processing when someone opens the video, they see the plain original in the meantime rather than being blocked.

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