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.

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, or none) 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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