April 29th, 2009 by admin

Watermarking your videos means putting your name, domain or logo onto your video, this helps a lot from people stealing your videos, protection, it also lets other people know about your site (more traffic to your website)

Many People share there videos over the Internet, there are people which hijack your videos and copy and re-distribute your work. In some cases such copying is illegal, so a watermark is good to stop them. Finding the thieves is very hard. You can protect your video with a professionally looking custom logo or watermark, in windows movie maker there is already a set list of watermarks, but if you want something nice like your domain logo.

To edit these files we need to go to the folder,
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddonTFX
this is where the logos and watermarks are keep ed, you should see something like this.

1. Make a logo and save it as logo.png in photo shop, here is one of my logo`s, notice it has a transparent background.

2. Copy the logo.png file into,

C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\logo.png

3. Copy this .xml code into your .xml file, so you will need to make a file from .txt and change the file name to logo.xml then put the code into the logo.xml file below.

C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\logo.xml

<TransitionsAndEffects Version=”1.0″>
<Titles>
<TitleDLL guid=”{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}”>
<Title name=”@logo.png” iconid=”13″
comment=”http://www.movielcd.com”>
<Param name=”InternalName” value=”TitleMultiTitles”/>
<Param name=”Description” value=”Puts logo.png in top right corner”/>
<Param name=”LogoBitmapFilename” value=”AddOnTFX\logo.png”/>
<Param name=”LogoRect” value=”0.6 0.0 0.4 0.1″/>
<Paragraph>
<Param name=”IsOneLine” value=”true”/>
<Param name=”BoundingRect” value=”0.3 0.075 0.8 0.15″/>
<Param name=”MaxCharacterCount” value=”32″/>
</Paragraph>
<Paragraph>
<Param name=”IsOneLine” value=”true”/>
<Param name=”BoundingRect” value=”0.5 0.90 0.8 1.0″/>
<Param name=”MaxCharacterCount” value=”32″/>
</Paragraph>
</Title>
</TitleDLL>
</Titles>
</TransitionsAndEffects>

3. Now start Movie Maker.

4. Add a title to the title overlay track of your project timeline using your customised Logo title, first click make titles and credits, then click title at the beginning just put a space as the text, then click change the title animation, then scroll down to select the @logo, then click done, add this title to movie.

5. Extend the title over the whole length of your movie.

6. Watch the video i will show you how

You can adjust the position of the logo by modifying the LogoRect <Param name=”LogoRect” value=”0.8 0.8 0.2 0.2″/>
Here 0.8 0.8 is the X,Y relative coordinates of the top left of the logo where 0 0 is the top left and 1 1 is the bottom right.
0.2 0.2 is the length in the X and Y direction.

This video shows you how to put the logo watermark in the video in close up view, when i click on “title at the beginning”
just put a space here, as in the video its hard to see that.