Add Watermarks in Premiere

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we're going to demonstrate how to add a watermark in Adobe Premiere Pro 2015.

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   To begin, we need to obtain a watermark

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   We can do that by importing an item. To import an item, right-click a blank area of the "Project" window.

   

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   Click "Import..."

   

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   Then, locate the file you want to import

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   For this tutorial, the VisiHow logo will be imported from the desktop by double-clicking the "visi logo.png" file. The file will be imported into "Project".

   

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   Click and drag the watermark in the project window to a free track of the timeline

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   The watermark might be very large.

   

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   Click the clip in the timeline

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   Let's choose some effects.

   

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   Click the "Motion" arrow on the left-hand side to expand the menu

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   You can scale the watermark size down by clicking and dragging the "Scale" value left or right

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   Let's decrease the "Scale" value from 100.0 to 31.0.

   

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   Then, you can click and drag both of the "Position" values to position the title

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   There are two numbers for the x and y axes. Let's click the x axis number (the first one) and drag it to the left or right in order to move the logo along the x axis.

   

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   Then, click and drag the y axis value left or right to position the logo vertically

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   Drag the mouse cursor to the left in order to bring the logo up. Another item that you can set in the effects menu is "Opacity".

   

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    You can expand the "Opacity" menu by clicking the arrow next to "Opacity" on the left side of the screen

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    Click and drag the "Opacity" value

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    Let's drag it to 80 %, which is a good transparency level for a watermark. You can set the opacity of the watermark according to your preference.

    

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    To get this watermark over the entire timeline, click the timeline

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    Press the "-" key on the keyboard if necessary

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    This will zoom out on this section so that you can see the entire timeline.

    

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    Next, click and drag on the edge of the watermark clip so that it extends to the end of the main clip

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    Now, as you go throughout the timeline, you will see that the VisiHow watermark appears in every frame of the video.

    

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    Click the watermark track

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    Press "delete"

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    There is another way to add a watermark, which may be a little better if you have a lot of videos that should have the watermark appear throughout.

    

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    As a second way to add a watermark, go to the rendering menu by pressing "command" + "M" on the keyboard

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    Check "Image Overlay"

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    It is one option in the effects menu.

    

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    Then, click the "Applied" drop-down menu

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    Click "Choose..."

    

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    From "Select an image" window, select the same watermark file by double-clicking it

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    In the "Effects" tab, you can adjust the "Size" and "Opacity" values by clicking and dragging them to the left or right

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    The "Offset (X,Y)" position can be changed too

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    You can do it by clicking and dragging the two 0 values next to "Offset (X,Y)". Let's click and drag the x axis to the right.

    

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    Let's click and drag the y axis left

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    In this video, the logotype will be put into the top-right corner. Setting up a watermark in the rendering menu is convenient because you can save your work as a preset and apply the watermark and its settings to all of your videos.

    

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    To save the settings as a preset, click the "Save Preset" icon next to the "Preset" drop-down menu

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    The "Preset" drop-down menu is located at the top of the rendering menu.

    

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    Type a name for the preset

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    Let's type "custom watermark".

    

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    Click "OK"

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    Now, when you click the "Preset" drop-down menu and then click the saved preset, the video will be rendered in a similar manner

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    To apply the changes, you can click "Queue" at the bottom of the screen

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    This will open up the Adobe Media Encoder.

    

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    Alternatively, click "Export" in order to encode and render the video clip with the watermark attached

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This was a tutorial on two ways that you can add a watermark to your videos in Adobe Premiere Pro 2015. Please leave any questions or comments in the space below. Thank you for watching VisiHow!

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