Video watermarks

Remind people that they shouldn't download and share work in progress

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Written by Chris Potter
Updated over a week ago

If you are on a paid plan, you have the option of automatically having a watermark burned into the videos that you upload.

This feature has been designed to align with MPAA best practices for digital content protection. Outside of protecting motion pictures, there are a number of use cases where this is handy.

It works to guard against content theft or inadvertent distribution of work in process by clients. People are less likely to download a video and post it to YouTube if your logo or the words pre-release not for distribution are burned into it.

Please see our blog post about the feature for a detailed guide on how to add watermarks to your videos.

Suggested workflow with watermarks on

If you are going to use this feature, we recommend limiting the number of people that have permission to download assets. If you don't want people copying files without your authorization, this is your most obvious protection. We also recommend turning on the security overlay to deter people from using a camera to capture your videos.

You can still use Screenlight for final delivery if you have watermarking turned on since we don't alter the Master video files that you upload. When a video is approved you can give the appropriate people permission to download files and instruct them to download the master rather than the proxy which will be watermarked.

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