Uh, that's the point. Otherwise why bother? Looking back at the YouTube Terms of Service (and others) anyone, can do anything with your video. You give them that permission when you post your footage with the website. If you don't "mess it up" then you have no protection because putting the watermark in a corner is ineffective.Originally Posted by The Publisher
Why would you watermark your still images in the center of the frame but not your video? What makes video different?
Of course, but no one is forcing you to post on YouTube. There are many alternatives. YouTube was designed with amateur videographer in mind giving them an easy way to share things with others. It was really never intended as a sales tool for a commercial videographer. Usually people in business spend the money to host their own videos, where you are in more control.
With scenic still images, I place it in the lower corner so it does not interfere with the image...for products, I plaster it right in the middle of everything....
HD videos are the scenic thing typically, so I about the same as what the Discovery Channel, History Channel, NatGeo etc do, all in the lower corner.
Even with plastering things right in the middle, I watched a tutorial using Photoshop 5 where the speaker took an image he shot of a hair ghost pipefish, talked about how deleting it from the image would take hours, then proceeded to remove in in 30 seconds, and worse, he used some tool that filled in the background behind where the hairy ghost pipefish used to be to make it look like a real overgrown reef just like adjacent background areas of the original photo.
That makes it REALLY easy for image thieves to delete a watermark right in the middle of everything....
But I know what you are saying....
iWatermark has an embossed 3D tool so it uses the image itself rather than blotting it out....
Photoshop has a tool and plug in vendor that allows you to embed a invisible watermark then trace it wherever it goes....
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Seriously? I can show you 100,000 examples of video posted by recording artists, networks, artists, corporations, etc. to promote their work and drive sales.
My point continues to be that if you decide to post video or stills on the web (whether on your own website or others) be smart and watermark your work. Can watermarks be defeated? Yes, but at least don't make it easy.
For those who shrewdly employ all marketing avenues, Youtube has evolved into the most cost effective commercial marketing platform.
I think most music videos can be found there from record labels.
But for every pro video, there are probably 50 amateur vids....but what a great resource it has become.
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