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How to Add Watermark to Avi Video

As we know, watermarks can be used for protection or adding comments to your videos. Then how can you protect your video with a logo or watermark with just a few clicks? This guide aims to tell you how to add watermark (image or text) on avi video files.

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Solution

  1. First of all, you need to prepare your watermark image. It is imperative that your watermark is as either a .BMP or a .TGA file, as these are the only file formats virtualdubmod will accept for watermarks. For example, here's ours.
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  2. Download VirtualdubMOD and extract to an appropriate folder.
  3. Open Virtualdubmod. Find your source video, drag and drop it in the Virtualdubmod. You may get this:
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  4. Go to "Video" -> "Filters".
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  5. Click the "Add" button, scroll down to the logo filter, and then click "OK".
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  6. "filter: logo" window pops up. Now press the "…" button to the right of the Logo image field and select your watermark image. Tick the "Enable per-pixel alpha blending using alpha channel" tickbox, and leave the "Use premultiplied alpha tickbox" ticked. Tick the use gray channel of secondary image for alpha channel tickbox. Press the "…" button to the right of the Alpha image field and also select your watermark image.
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  7. Click the "Show Preview" button, and you should have something similar to the following:
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  8. If you're okay with the watermark, click "OK" twice. And you should have this:
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  9. Now you can set up your video with any encoding settings you desire as per normal. Once you have selected your compression settings for both video and audio (if required), Go to "File" -> "Save As", specify your output filename, and click the "Save" button, or start the frameserver if you’re frameserving to an MPEG encoder.
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
  10. In a few minutes, it will be done. Now you can see watermark is added to your avi video.
    Add Watermark to Avi Video
    Add Watermark to Avi Video

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See also

Watermarks can be used for protection or adding comments to your movies. You may want to impose watermark on a whole video file or on a specified section of the movie.
If you want to share your video or movie on the website, YouTube, etc. You can add image watermark to highlight your company’s logo. Or add text watermark like author name or other useful information to protect the copyright.
It is a hard work to make a good video by ourself. So after we finished the little film, we need to add our sign on it. Here I want to show you how to add watermark on our video for MAC.

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