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Overlay an image on a VOD media
This guide explains how to insert an image, a logo, a watermark, on the videos of your VOD service to enhance your brand image and protect your content from copying or potential misuse.
Add the image to the media
You have the option to add an image that will appear on your video:
- either from the configuration of a Player video
- or from the specific rules of an import folder
1. Video Player
In the management section of a Player, the selected logo is overlaid on the video, appearing only during playback.
This approach offers the flexibility to change the logo at any time, thus allowing the use of several Players pointing to the same video without any difficulty.
However, a drawback to consider is that if a visitor manages to retrieve the actual address of the video, it will be streamed without the logo. Despite this drawback, this method is recommended for its ease of use and adaptability:
2. Import folder
In the configuration of a folder (including the root folder) containing media, image embedding is done as a direct integration into the video:
This method is less flexible because once the logo is integrated, no further modifications are possible. It is therefore important to consider that any future change of logo could cause issues, making this approach less adaptable in the long term:
These two technologies are different and do not operate at the same time, so if you activate them simultaneously, you will get the Player logo on top of the embedded logo.