Watermarking a preview video

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:29 pm

I am doing a project for someone I do not know well. they want to preview a copy of it before paying me for my time. Is there a way that I could put preview onto the slide show easily. I would want it to be on every picture. It runs 45min long. I am using VS 10.

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:39 pm

VS10 or VS10 Plus?

Do you already have titles in the title track? If not just create a text title, stretch it for the full duration of your slideshow. You can also reduce the opacity so it can be seen, but does not distract from the slideshow.

If you are using the title track, and if you are using VS10+, you can create a simple title in a new project. It only needs to be a couple of seconds long. Then start another project, insert this text title, and then use the "Save as Image" to create an image of your text. Then insert that into your slide-show.

Or just create a watermark/text in any graphics program, that will allow you to save it to a format that supports transparency, such as GIF, PNG, or TGA.

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:36 pm

Thank you. I do have titles in the title track which was baffling me. I knew that the forum would know what to do.

Aside from Blueray and Vista suport is there other significant reasons for the upgrade? For the moment VS10+ seems to be doing the thrick.

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:59 pm

Other than what you mentioned, you're able to cut clips in the overlay tracks. However VS12 reportedly has been released in Japan, so it should not be that long before it's release elsewhere. So I'd hold off on doing any upgrading..

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:41 am

Thank you for the heads up on the new V12.

The making of the image in PS CS2 and brinking it in worked like a charm