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We have a repository of video animations of varying codecs/resolutions/frame-rates/etc that are currently playing on rotation in VLC player as a corporate display. I've been asked to add a corporate banner or logo to this, so that the videos play underneath the banner or so that the logo is embedded prominently. VLC's facility to add a logo (Tools/Effects and Filters/Overlay tab) does this but sizes logo relative to the video, so the logo scales from tiny to dominating the screen for different videos.

I know there are ways to add logos to videos using for example FFmpeg, but I'm reluctant to process all these videos for that purpose (cost/benefit..) and as it'll reduce quality.

I'd be very grateful for advice on a way to add a banner/logo in a more seamless professional way to a playlist, perhaps using a layer-based approach where you can specify a banner frame above the video frame. Or alternatively is there a way to control Windows screen output in this way? Thanks in advance.

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  • Just to clarify: You're more interested in just overlaying a watermark in a(ny) video player over any video, and not actually embedding the overlay in the video files themselves? Are you playing these videos full screen all the time? Jan 28, 2014 at 16:36

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Here is a tutorial to actually change the video.

Here is a program that overlays a watermark to Windows itself.

As about overlay an image through a media player, here is a question regarding it, but it appears to involve code and other stuff that i don't understand.

Good Luck

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  • Awesome thanks Nuno. Screen Watermark is exactly what I had in mind - very neat little app!
    – geotheory
    Jan 28, 2014 at 16:52
  • Need one for OSX now! Any suggestions Nuno?
    – geotheory
    May 1, 2014 at 15:11
  • I found this app that adds watermarks to videos, and if you change the opacity to 100%, you should get a overlayed logo; and I also found this blog post about adding watermarks on mac. Hope it helps.
    – Nuno Costa
    May 1, 2014 at 21:31

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