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Use an image overlay to watermark videos

Use an image overlay to watermark videos

From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Outputs and Media Encoder

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Use an image overlay to watermark videos

- One of the options in the effects panel of Adobe Media Encoder is to add an image overlay. This is particularly useful if you want to watermark an image, so that your video always plays back with a semi-transparent overlay that keeps it from being stolen or reused without your permission. And another good use is for a small bug, that's the little graphic or logo down in the bottom corner that we often see on network television programs. Let's see how this works. Here I am in Media Encoder, and I've got one clip to work with. And I'm going to click through to its export settings, and then down in the effects palette, about the third one down, is image overlay. I'm gonna go ahead and click that and then you can see that I need to choose the image to apply. Right now it says none, but I can go ahead and open a browser to choose an image. Here in media, I've created a semi-logo. It's actually just a copyright sign, which is an indication of what we're doing. There we can see a big C…

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