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Add Your Logo To A Video File

Many people like to add their logo or their URL to video files. I will show you how to add a professional looking transparent logo to your video files using a free program called VirtualDub which is the best free program to work with AVIs (like DIVX, XVID or any other AVI format). You can use the same technique to add a picture or a text.

1. Prepare your logo by opening your favorite image editor and making a new image file, try to use a suitable dimensions and suitable color that will look good in the final video also make it as simple and as small as possible.
2. Fill all the areas that you want to be transparent with black.
3. Save the image as bmp, jpg or tga.
   
4. Open VirtualDub, Drag and Drop your video on it.
   
5. Click Video > Full processing mode.
6. Click Video > Filters or (Ctrl + F).
7. In the Filters window, click Add.
8. In the "Add Filter" window scroll down to logo and double click on it or choose it and click Ok.
9. In the "filter: logo" window click "Logo image" and browse to the logo image you have created.
10. Check the three check boxes: "Enable per-pixel alpha blending…", "Use premultiplied alpha…" and "Use gray channel…".
11. In the "Alpha image" browse to the same image file again.
12. Click the "Show preview" button, you should now see your logo on the video.
13. Change the "X offset" and "Y offset" to change the position of your logo.
    
14. You can also change the Opacity value if you like your logo to be semi transparent, you should see the results immediately in the "Filter preview" window.
15. Click Ok twice to return to the main window, press (Ctrl + P) or click Video > Compression to choose a video compression - like Divx - and press F7 to save the video file.Here is the final result: