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Video Watermark Adder - Add Text or Logo to Videos

Add custom text watermarks or image logos to videos. 9 position grid placement, adjustable opacity and size. Protect your content with branded watermarks. Drag-and-drop positioning.

Add a text or image watermark to your videos to protect your content or establish brand presence. Position the watermark anywhere on the frame, adjust its size and opacity, and preview exactly how it will look during playback. The tool supports both static watermarks that stay in one position and tiled patterns that cover the entire frame for stronger protection.

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Related reading

  • Watermarking Digital Content: Protecting Your Creative Work Online13 min read

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Video Watermark Adder - Add Text or Logo to Videos: a worked example

Course preview videos need a semi-transparent logo so leaked copies are traceable.

Input

lesson.mp4 + logo.png · bottom-right · 35% opacity
Video Watermark Adder - Add Text or Logo to Videos produces

Output

lesson.mp4 with a persistent corner watermark

A fixed, low-opacity overlay marks ownership without obscuring content and is awkward to crop out cleanly. You can mark a video with either custom text or a transparent PNG logo, set its color, size, and opacity, and place it using the nine-position grid or by dragging it freely in the live preview. The watermark is burned in by re-encoding the video locally in your browser, so the file is never uploaded to a server.

What is Video Watermark Adder - Add Text or Logo to Videos?

Add a text or image watermark to your videos to protect your content or establish brand presence. Position the watermark anywhere on the frame, adjust its size and opacity, and preview exactly how it will look during playback. The tool supports both static watermarks that stay in one position and tiled patterns that cover the entire frame for stronger protection.

How to use

  1. 1Upload your video.
  2. 2Choose between text or image watermark and configure it.
  3. 3Drag to position the watermark on the video preview, and adjust size and opacity.
  4. 4Export the watermarked video.

When to use it

  • Protecting original content

    Watermark preview copies of videos to deter unauthorized use while sharing with clients or reviewers.

  • Brand identity

    Add a logo watermark to all published videos for consistent branding across your content.

  • Proof of ownership

    Embed your name or business details into videos as evidence of original authorship.

Key features

  • Text and image watermark support
  • Adjustable position, size, and opacity
  • Tiled pattern mode for full-frame coverage
  • Font selection and color customization for text watermarks
  • Live preview during playback

Tips & best practices

  • The Image Size slider only changes the preview - the exported logo is always scaled to 150px wide (height auto), so judge final size by the downloaded file, not the preview.
  • Dragging the watermark to a custom spot snaps to the nearest of nine grid positions on export (33%/66% thresholds), so use the grid buttons if you need a predictable placement.
  • All text renders in Roboto from the bundled /fonts/roboto.ttf; there is no font selector, so design your wording around that rather than expecting a custom typeface.
  • For tamper resistance prefer center placement or higher opacity - there is no tiled mode, so a single corner mark can be cropped or painted out.

Examples

  • Subtle copyright stamp

    Keep the default text mode, type your copyright line (or pick the Copyright 2024 preset), choose bottom-right, and set opacity to ~30-50% for unobtrusive branding. Roboto with a built-in 2px black outline keeps it readable; output is re-encoded with libx264 crf 23 while audio is copied unchanged.

  • PNG logo overlay

    Switch to Image mode and load a transparent PNG. The logo is composited at a fixed 150px width with its alpha preserved via colorchannelmixer; pick a corner position (20px margin from the edge) and tune opacity 10-100% to control how prominent the brand mark appears.

How it works

The Video Watermark Adder runs FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly (ffmpeg.wasm, the @ffmpeg/ffmpeg 0.12 wrapper around the multithreaded @ffmpeg/core-mt 0.12.6 build) directly in your browser, so the video file is never uploaded to a server. Text watermarks are burned in with FFmpeg's drawtext filter using a single bundled font loaded from /fonts/roboto.ttf - there is no font picker, so every text mark renders in Roboto regardless of your system fonts. Beyond the text, font size, position and opacity you choose, the filter always adds a fixed 2-pixel black outline (borderw=2 at half your selected opacity) so light text stays legible over bright footage. You can type any string or pick a preset (Copyright 2024, CONFIDENTIAL, DRAFT, PREVIEW, Sample), set color from six swatches or a custom picker, and choose font sizes of 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 or 96px.

Image watermarks are composited with a two-step filter_complex chain: the logo is first scaled with scale=150:-1 (fixed 150 pixels wide, height kept proportional), then run through format=rgba,colorchannelmixer=aa=<opacity> to apply transparency before an overlay onto the video. One real consequence to know: the on-screen Image Size slider (30-300px) only resizes the live preview - the exported logo is always rendered at 150px wide, so the burned-in result may look larger or smaller than the preview suggests, and a PNG with a transparent background is recommended since the alpha channel is preserved through the RGBA conversion. Positioning works off a 9-cell grid (top/center/bottom × left/center/right) with a constant 20px margin from the frame edge computed at the video's native resolution; you can also drag the mark freely in the preview, but on export that custom point is snapped to whichever of the nine grid cells it falls nearest using simple 33%/66% thresholds rather than being placed at exact pixel coordinates.

Whichever mode you use, the whole clip is re-encoded with libx264 at -preset ultrafast and -crf 23 (a quality-prioritizing constant-rate-factor setting) using -threads 0 to use all available cores, while the original audio track is stream-copied (-c:a copy) so sound is passed through untouched and only the video is transcoded. The output keeps the source container extension (defaulting to mp4) and downloads as <name>_watermarked.<ext>. Opacity is adjustable from 10% to 100% in steps of 5 and feeds the FFmpeg alpha value directly, so a lower setting around 30-50% gives a subtle branding overlay while 70-100% produces a bold copyright stamp; because the mark is a single placed element (there is no tiled or repeating mode), a corner watermark remains crop-removable, so the center position or higher opacity is the more tamper-resistant choice.

Frequently asked questions

Can the watermark be removed by others?

Watermarks burned into the video are permanent, they become part of the pixel data. However, no watermark is completely tamper-proof; a persistent editor could crop or paint over it.

Does watermarking affect video quality?

The watermark is composited onto the video frames during re-encoding. Quality depends on your export settings, not the watermark itself. Use high quality settings to minimize any loss.

Can I add a watermark that only appears during certain sections?

Currently the watermark applies to the entire video. For time-limited watermarks, trim the video first and watermark only that segment.

Further reading

  • Watermarking Digital Content: Protecting Your Creative Work Online13 min read

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