One very easy method is to add a text event to a track above the video, place your name or copyright info in this event, set the opacity down low, like maybe 95 instead of 255, and then stretch it out to match the length of the video.

If you want to add a graphic instead then the process is similar. I'd suggest creating the graphic the size you want embedded in a full video frame size. For example, make the graphic 30x30 pixels in a 655x480 frame. Set the background to transparent and save it as .png or .gif. Load this graphic on a track above the video and drop the opacity.

Thanks for the help. It seems straight forward but I've having problems. I chose the Transparent Text unthe Text/Media Generator. It's background is a bluish color. I can't get the background to be opaque without having the text fade out due to the opaqueness. What am I doing wrong?

Can I make the suggested graphic in Vegas or do I need another software program?

The opacity suggestion is good but as I make the opacity lower the watermark is lower and it gives the video an murky white (since I chose white as the background). Is there a way to make the background transparent using the opacity option?

The text has 2 properties - one is a font color, the other is a background color - and you can select the background to a transparent state by using the little slider next to it.
Then you can use the gain/opacity to make it as visible/invisible as you like without any worry of the background causing any murkiness.

Otherwise, if you make an image elsewhere, you can either create one that support alpha, or use chroma-keying to mask out a background color. But the text option is the simplest.

If that doesn't make sense - let us know, and one of us will explain it further

Hope it helps

Is there a way to make the background transparent using the opacity option?

The easiest way is to start with the "Sample Text" text generator that has a checkerboard background. This gray/gray checkerboard pattern is a way to indicate that it has a transparent background.

Of course you can also alter an existing text item with a colored background to make the background transparent. On the window (for background color) with the three horizontal sliders for the colors, there will be a vertical slider just to the left of those three color ones that controls opacity. It will be (for example) solid black at the top, and checkerboard at the bottom. Grab the little triangle next to this item and drag it all the way down to the bottom of the checkerboard pattern. This makes your background transparent (regardless of the color you had selected for background). This is what Kenny was saying, apart from the fact that maybe you didn't know that "checkerboard" means transparent...

Tim L