How To Add Watermark In Windows Movie Maker

If you've always been fascinated past how well some YouTube videos or commercials turn out that y'all wish to brand some of your own, why non try Windows Movie Maker to warm up your video-making skills? Lots of YouTube gurus seem exist doing so. Authoring your own videos can be fun and time-consuming at the aforementioned time, so if yous desire to protect your work, brand information technology more distinguishable and fifty-fifty professional, you should consider adding your signature.

I certainly wish I did dorsum when I fansubbed a music piece with some (equally I was told after) metaphorically incorrect translations and after laughed when I saw the exact same, wrong lyrics I had spent hours researching for in some other similar video. As yous tin tell, there'southward no real harm in spending a few more minutes protecting your work. It may even get you more motivated when you lot come across your own logo in your videos that you'll continue making videos!

So before we start with the tutorial, note that the first function of the tutorial focuses on adding simple text-based watermarks, and for the 2nd part, we'll add together an image watermark or logo into our video using the code from some brilliant users at the Picture Maker Forums.

Calculation A Text Watermark

If you desire a unproblematic text watermark, non a logo, of your username or name in the lower portion of your video, y'all can go started right away with one of the born Titles.

Kickoff, first up Windows Movie Maker. Press Ctrl + I (or click on Videos under Import in the left sidebar) to import your video from your computer.

Drag your video to the timeline. Click on Title and credits under Edit in the left sidebar and and then, click on Championship on the selected clip.

Type your username or the text you want to appear equally your video watermark.

Click on Change the title animation and choose Subtitle that appears nether the first Titles, One Line department at the pinnacle of the selection box.

If you wish to position your watermark most the bottom correct or left, click on Change the text font and color and choose the icon to align text right or left. You can change how transparent or opaque your watermark, as well as your font style (e.one thousand. make the text bold or italicized), size and color.

Once you similar what y'all meet in the Preview (please note that the video player may take a few seconds to display any changes), click on Add together Championship.

Using the resizer (which appears when your cursor hovers on the edge of the championship in the timeline), drag it across the length of your video.

You can preview your terminal video if yous'd similar, otherwise, printing Ctrl + P (click on File > Publish Movie) to save the video to your computer.

This is what the production looks like with the elementary text watermark.

Adding An Image Watermark Or Logo

Beginning, if you haven't already, create your image watermark. If it has a transparent background, information technology would look even better, so use Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET or near web-based image editors to achieve a transparent background (which the built-in MS Paint can't do). Salvage it in .PNG or .GIF format in >C:\Program Files\Moving-picture show Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\.

If you don't have the Shared or the AddOnTFX binder, just create the folders with those exact names. You lot may besides save your image in .JPEG format just note that it tin't contain a transparent groundwork. If you already have your logo saved in your computer, make sure it is saved in either file formats, or you can create a new copy and salvage information technology as a .PNG or .GIF file in >C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\.

Now head to this FX Archive page and select either Windows XP Logo Creator or Windows Vista Logo Creator depending on your system.

Select the location in the video where you want your logo to appear.

Then choose the Screen Size which you tin can chop-chop observe out past looking at your video file's properties under Dimensions. If your video has different dimensions, just choose the closest numbers or (follow the original forum thread to learn how to modify the code). So type in the dimensions for your image watermark or logo file.

Now, in the Logo filename, where the default name is prototype.gif, blazon whatever the name is for your watermark or logo file, which y'all saved previously in .PNG or .GIF in >C:\Plan Files\Picture Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\.

In the Name of Championship field, you can name it something like MyLogo. Copy the text that appears underneath.

Open Notepad, paste the text in and save equally a mylogo.xml (choose All Files (*.*) in the drib-down carte du jour for the Save as type field) in the >C:\Program Files\Picture show Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\ folder.

Open up Windows Moving picture Maker (or if you lot have it open up, restart it to see the new MyLogo), import your video, elevate it to the timeline and choose Titles and credits.

Choose Title on the selected clip and in the text box under Enter text for championship, input a single space (this is important!), and click Alter the championship blitheness.

Yous should see MyLogo in the options. Select it and click Add together Championship.

Using the resizer (which appears when your cursor hovers on the edge of the title in the timeline), drag it across the length of your video. You can preview your final video if you'd like, otherwise, press Ctrl + P (click on File > Publish Moving-picture show) to salvage the video to your computer or share information technology with others or on YouTube!

If you look actually difficult, there's actually more tricks that good ol' Picture show Maker has to render a pretty professional person video, like the Zooming effects. Exercise you use Windows Movie Maker or do you lot prefer some other video editor? Let us know in the comments about your preferences and why!