Reduce costs
Lower bandwidth and storage expenses without compromising quality.
Upload watermark assets
Provide logo images (PNG with transparency) or define text watermarks.
Watermarks
Burn brand logos and text directly into video during transcoding.
Overview
What It Is
Watermarking embeds images, logos, or text overlays into video frames during the transcoding process. Qencode supports flexible positioning, opacity controls, and multiple watermark layers applied in a single pass. This is essential for broadcasters who need to brand content, enterprises protecting confidential recordings, and platforms combating unauthorized redistribution.
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Process
How It Works
Set positioning and timing
Configure placement (corners, center), opacity, size, and when watermarks appear (full duration or specific ranges).Configure scaling
Choose whether watermarks scale with resolution or stay fixed for different output qualities.Submit job
Include watermark settings in your transcoding request and receive watermarked outputs automatically.
Overview
Why Watermarks
Save time
Automate complex processing that would take hours manually.
Scale effortlessly
Handle thousands of videos with the same API call.
Integrate in minutes
Simple robust API with comprehensive SDKs and documentation.
Use Cases
Who Uses Watermarks
Broadcasters
ScenarioA sports broadcast network distributes clips to affiliate stations and social media. Each outlet adds its own branding, but the network needs its logo on all primary broadcast feeds to maintain brand consistency.
Embed watermarks at transcode time instead of re-processing, saving 50% of encoding infrastructure costs.
Enterprise
ScenarioA financial firm records internal training videos and confidential earnings calls. Videos are shared with specific employees, and the company needs persistent watermarks showing "Confidential" and viewer name.
Apply dynamic, per-user watermarks showing recipient identity, making unauthorized distribution traceable and creating accountability across 100+ daily distributed videos.
UGC Platforms
ScenarioA social platform hosts user-uploaded videos that competitors scrape and repost without attribution. Creators lose visibility when their content is stolen and republished.
Automatically watermark every upload with creator logo and channel name, reducing content theft by 60% and making attribution visible across all platforms.
Tutorial
How to use Watermarks
Watch a quick walkthrough showing how to configure and use Watermarks through the Qencode dashboard and API.
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For Developers
Technical Reference
| API Method | POST /v1/start_encode2 after creating a task with /v1/create_task. |
| Key Parameters | source, output, logo. Logo params: source, x, y, opacity, optional start_time, duration. For HLS/DASH, specify logo inside the stream object. |
| Supported Input Formats | Any video format — MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, HLS, and 200+ others |
| Supported Output Formats | Standard transcoded video outputs. For adaptive streaming formats like HLS or MPEG-DASH, configure the logo per stream/resolution. |
| Watermark Image Formats | JPEG and PNG. Use PNG when transparency is needed. |
| Limits & Constraints | Logo image must be a publicly available URL. x/y control position; negative values position relative to right/bottom edges. opacity supports 0 to 1 and defaults to 1. Use an array of logo objects for dynamic time-based logos. |
Request Example
Produces Watermarks output JSON
{
"query": {
"source": "https://your-storage.com/source.mov",
"encoder_version": "2",
"format": [
{
"output": "mp4",
"video_codec": "libx264",
"resolution": 2160,
"optimize_bitrate": 1,
"logo": {
"source": "https://your-server.com/image.png",
"x": 10,
"y": 10
}
}
]
}
}Pricing
What It Costs
Included with Transcoding
Logo and watermark overlays are available for all Qencode users. Add JPEG or PNG watermarks to your transcoded video outputs as part of your standard transcoding workflow.
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