Learn/How-To-Add-Your-Logo-to-Your-Video
Revision as of 20:23, 3 March 2011 by Aliza Earnshaw (talk | contribs)
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I have been making a lot of videos lately for my new interview site, [[1]], and thought it would be useful to share something it took me some time to figure out: how to add your logo to your video. Of course, this is probably simple for people who have done a lot of video editing, but for a complete novice like me, it was surprisingly hard to find good information.
I used Apple's iMovie video editing software, so some of the instructions below will be specific to that program. Generally, though, these instructions should help even if you're using other video editing software.
Video Editing Equipment
- Computer: iMac running OS X Snow Leopard
- Video editing software: iMovie ’11
- Image editor: Pixelmator, but I have also used Photoshop
Video Editing Process
- Step 1: Generate a PNG of your logo. Get your logo into the proper format. You need a PNG of your logo, not a JPEG, PDF, or other format. You need a PNG because it will show just your logo - the background will be transparent, blocking less of your video image.
- Step 2: Create the logo in the proper aspect ratio. Your logo needs to have the same aspect ratio as your video. This will prevent your logo from being cropped or having black bands appear when the whole logo is shown. I have two versions of my logo: one for widescreen HD video (1,280 x 720) and one in standard (640 x 480) ratio.
- Step 3: Drag your logo onto your iMovie project. When you do this, you will be presented with options for how to insert this image into your video. Choose Picture in Picture to have it overlaid on the video.
- Step 4 Fit your image to the video: Select your new Picture in Picture image in iMovie and edit it (in iMovie you can just press “c” once you have it selected). Once in editing mode choose “fit” to make sure that your entire logo is selected.
- Step 5 resize your logo and position it: Dragging the corner of your newly inserted logo allows you to make it bigger or smaller in your video and then you can position it in your video appropriately.
- Step 6 expand your logo across your video: I choose to have my logo show up from the beginning of the video to the end, but you can just have it show up in certain sections of the video if you choose.
so be sure to post if you have any questions.