Lower 3rd or "Proberty of..." burned into picture

Hello to all,

I compressed a 44:30 viewing copy of a show and forgot to add "Property of (company name)" over the picture. I need to burn to DVD so I can send viewing copies to clients. Is there a way for me to add the "Property of (company name)" to the compressed file and make the DVD or do I have to go back to FCP, add the "Property of..." track and recompress?

As always, thanks in advance!!!!

Peace,
Lisha

MacBook Pro
FCP 6.0.4

Use Compressor. It has an option for adding a text watermark. In the INSPECTOR in the FILTERS tab, click on TEXT OVERLAY.

This works for any compression you make...this adds the text to the whole thing.


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Hi Shane,

Should I trash the file I spent 3 hours compressing and start with a new file? Export from FCP using compressor, in compressor add the "text overlay" :-) and compress a new file?

Thanks so much!
Lisha

Never use the "export using Compressor" function in Final Cut Pro.

Export a Quicktime of your timeline, then run that Quicktime through a Compressor virtual cluster, adding the burn-in there.

Even on a MacBook, it shouldn't take anything like three hours to encode a 45-minute show.

for the watermark to work in compressor it has to have an alpha channel.

when i was working on a show where we didnt have Photshop, i made the watermarks in FCP, using the simple text generator.
then exported using Quicktime Conversion to Still Image: TIFF format.

to add the watermark in Compressor,
go to the Filters pane in the Inspector, and tick "Watermark"
then navigate to your file, and adjust the settings to taste.


nick