Network watermark

habed wrote on 3/29/2004, 8:04 AM
I was wondering how to place a logo as a watermark the way the networks do it (MTV, CBS, NBC, Etc.) in one corner of the image.

I already created a .gif file (transparent) but when I put in in any track it takes the whole image.

I have also tried to cut and paste in the text track since is the onlyone you can choose a specific part of the image where to be shown.

Is this possible??

Thanks in advance.

Humberto, Mexico city

Comments

ADinelt wrote on 3/29/2004, 6:23 PM
I found that Screenblast will take whatever graphic you have (.jpg, .bmp, .png, whatever) and scale it to fit within the center of the screen. A small graphic scales up to be big and large graphics scale down to be small. If the graphic/photo does not fit the 4:3 format, then you end up with black bars filling in the empty portions. This turned out to be a bit of a pain for some slide show work I was doing.

What I ended up doing was to create a black background graphic of 655 x 480 pixels. I then scaled my photo to fit on the background where I wanted it to appear, sometimes in the center, other times close to one of the edges. This gave me more flexibility within Screenblast for zooming or placing the photo on the screen where I wanted it and not just in the default center.

You could do something similar by creating a transparent graphic 655 x 480 pixels and then place your logo on the screen wherever you would like. Finally, fine tune the size and position by using Pan/Crop on the image itself withing Screenblast.

I am sure there are many other ways of accomplishing the same thing. This method worked for me.

Al
SonyTSW wrote on 3/29/2004, 7:17 PM
Event pan/crop is a good way to handle this.

Put your watermark logo .gif in the top track (the Text track). Stretch your watermark event to the full length of your project to display it the entire duration of your video. Use the remaining two tracks below (named Video Overlay and Video) for your videos, which will show through the transparent areas of your logo.

You can use event pan/crop to change the relative size of your logo and to position it where you want it. To open this tool, click the FX button on the event with your image, and select the Pan/Crop tab.

Keep in mind that the pan/crop selection rectangle is the view portal for the video preview. Instead of dragging the handles so the selection is smaller as is shown in the on-line help (which crops the image and expands it to fill the preview), you'll need to drag them so the selection rectangle is *bigger* than your image (which will shrink the image so that it is smaller than the preview).

You can change the relative location of your logo by positioning the mouse pointer inside the pan/crop selection rectangle and dragging. If you drag the mouse pointer on the rulers above and to the right of the work area, you can move around the portion of the work area that is displayed. Toggle on the magnify edit tool to shrink/stretch the scaling of the work area (left mouse click zooms up, right mouse click zooms down). You'll need to play with this a bit to get a feel for what to adjust to get the result you want.

BTW, you can use the three video tracks however you choose. They all have the same features available (FX, transition types, text & backdrops etc.), their names are just a suggestion for their use. So you could use the Text track for titles and scrolling credits, the Video Overlay track for your .gif logo, and the Video track for your video if you want. The main consideration is that pixels in a lower track will only show through the track above it if the upper track has transparent pixels (or less than 100% opacity). So put logos or text with transparent pixels on tracks that are above your actual video files.