How do I put a Graphic on my video?

[CombackKid]

I do video editing for a local wrestling company. And I have been wanting to put their company logo in the bottom corner of the show, but I don't know how. I am using NeroVisionExpress to edit. Is there anyway I can do that edit with that program?

[daamon]

Welcome to the forums.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=248307

It doesn't use NeroVisionExpress, but (I believe) it uses free tools.

[CombackKid]

Thanks for the welcome. I have been using the site for awhile now and decided to join.

I guess I should have searched before hand. Sorry. I just didn't know what to search for.

[daamon]

I just didn't know what to search for.

That's quite often the biggest problem - but you learn as you go along, picking up terminology and other useful stuff.

A good way is to have a read of anything interesting that catches your eye in the list of "Latest active forum topics" on the right side of the home page.

[JohnnyMalaria]

If you source video is DV and you have Windows XP, you can achieve this in realtime - during the capture process - with our Enosoft DV Processor. One of its functions is logo insertion. It supports BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG images (with full alpha channel support).

If necessary - and if you have two DV devices - you can insert the logo onto a live DV stream without even having to capture to disk.

Our program is in beta and so free to use - though we have supplied a version to a satellite TV distribution company for a couple of music channels that broadcast to North America expressly for live logo insertion (station branding).

[CombackKid]

Is there a difference between realtime and the program on the guide that daamon recommended?

[JohnnyMalaria]

Yes.

Let's say you have a 30 minute video on DV and you want to add a logo/watermark to the whole thing. Traditionally, you will transfer the video to PC (30 minutes), use an editor of some sort to add the graphic (variable amount of time depending on PC) and then send the modified video back to tape (30 minutes). So it will take at least 60 minutes + the rendering time.

Using our realtime capability, if you have two DV devices, you simply play the source tape on one of them, pass it through the software, and record the processed result - it takes however long the video lasts - in the above example, 30 minutes.

If you already have the edited video on disk, you can just run the AVI file to the DV device via our software, adding the logo on the fly. The advantage here is that you can have just one version of the editing program and create watermarked and non-watermarked versions at the time you send the video back to a DV device.

You can also capture the video from the DV device and add the logo as it is capturing. Then, if you only need to make simple cuts to the video, it will be a lot quicker, too. This also helps if your final destination is not DV (e.g., DVD).

[daamon]

@ CombackKid:

If the Enosoft DV Processor does what it says on the tin (and I don't doubt it) then it'll be quicker and less hassle - providing the output quality is as good (or very close to) the input quality. Again, I don't doubt that it will be.

@ JohnnyMalaria: Can you use a DV AVI file as the source and save to HDD?

[JohnnyMalaria]

@ JohnnyMalaria: Can you use a DV AVI file as the source and save to HDD?

Yes.

The software can operate in a number of modes:

AVI to AVI
DV device to AVI
AVI to DV device
DV device to DV device

I'll post a before and after frame onto our website so you can compare. (All the processing is done in the YUV color space and, where possible, without even leaving the DCT domain. Only the portions of the video frame that need to change are recompressed).

[JohnnyMalaria]

OK - here are links to some images.

Original - single DV frame captured from tape

Semitransparent - DV frame after inserting logo (semitransparent mode)

Opaque - DV frame after inserting logo (opaque mode)

Note: The three video images are taken from DV streams decoded using the standard Microsoft DV decoder and saved using JPEG compression at a factor of 10 (Paintshop Pro).

[daamon]

@ JohnnyMalaria: I know the JPEGs on a web page aren't a true reflection of the DV frame, but I gotta say that the "before" and two "afters" look incredibly alike, if not identical (as far as the human eye can see at least).

Nice work!

@ CombackKid: I'd say to read the guide so you get a feel for what's going on (the theory) but use the Enosoft DV Processor to actually do the work.

[AlanHK]

I do video editing for a local wrestling company. And I have been wanting to put their company logo in the bottom corner of the show, but I don't know how. I am using NeroVisionExpress to edit. Is there anyway I can do that edit with that program?

Do consider though that the viewers may actively disklike this, in proportion to how large and intrusive it is. In the interests of balance, to remove these ****ing logs, one can use delogo.


If you just had it briefly after every commercial break, I wouldn't complain. But having a large blot on the screen distracting from the actual show all the time (even worse: animated logos!) is verging on vandalism. (Eg, see the "Safari" examples above.)

If you just want to "watermark" the video, a subtle, small, alpha-blended logo isn't too annoying, and effectively brands your video for anyone who actually cares about that.