It did the job with no big hassles for me (I've tried it on a couple of videos of mine though): yes, as Ashraf rightly noticed, this is a brand-new program full of bags (see its inability to properly add watermarks to multiple videos in batch).

So overall it's no bad as GAOTD but for 50 bucks you must do more dude!

Nevertheless, if you are clever, removing watermarks from videos is not impossible....

You can use the freeware "VirtualDub" for that or...

http://www.softorbits.com/photo-stamp-remover/articles/how-to-remove-watermark-from-video.html

LOL...that's funny...the same company on one hand makes a (buggy) GAOTD like this and on the other hand creates a program which does exactly the opposite!

So all in all I'm not sure how effective a software like this GAOTD could be for copyright protection, if the same company shows you how to remove watermarks from videos: what do you make of it, dudes?


BEST FREE ALTERNATIVES

http://www.advancedsourcecode.com/wavevideowater.asp
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Editors/AviSynth-Final.shtml + http://sourceforge.net/projects/watermarkplugin

See also:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/191496-Put-a-custom-watermark-on-your-video
http://gaizy.hubpages.com/hub/Tutorial-How-to-watermark-your-videos-with-Windows-Movie-Maker-WMM

But why not add DRM protection on your videos?

http://www.armjisoft.com/?page=flashownerguard#Description

And besides that, there is a PROMO on the net right now (available till tomorrow) concerning the excellent shareware "Wonderfox Video Watermark" which is far better than this (brand-new & buggy) GAOTD:

http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/video-watermark/giveaway/tipradar.html#.Ue-e_xhH7IV

My 2 cents for today's giveaway....

Giovanni  –  11 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+89)

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No2 you are wrong. In all countries where the Berne Convention standards apply, copyright is automatic, and need not be obtained through official registration with any government office.

Bordon  –  11 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+49)

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@n°3: that's the general principle. Unfortunately it is not true of all countries, though. In particular in the USA you have to apply for copyright (and pay a fee) to enjoy full protection. If you don't register, you are protected for a mere pittance. The USA is the only exception I am aware of, but it is sizable enough to be mentioned.

David  –  11 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+29)

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Ashraf’s review of this program as it being overpriced and extremely buggy gives me no confident in it.

However, for those of you desperate enough to use it is possibly worth viewing the following links regarding copyright.
Talks about copyright general and not just the UK.
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law
Copyright in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States
Universal Copyright including the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Copyright_Convention

XP-Man  –  11 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+28)

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To ric or #8,

I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY. NOTHING WRITTEN HERE SHOULD BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVISE. ANY QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO THIS ISSUE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO AN ATTORNEY WITH EXPERIENCE IN THIS FIELD.

You wrote:

"Why would anyone be interested to copy our videos?
How many of us need to watermark our videos anyway?
Is it a big deal if someone copied my home videos?"

Example:

Let's say you produced a "home video" of you and your family BBing on a gas grill in your back yard. You post this video on-line. Someone that sells gas grills sees the video, thinks that it is well done, copies the video, puts his/her logo on the video and puts it on his/her Gas Grill Web Site.

Sure, you can get an attorney to force them to remove the video from their site, but that could take years of litigation and cost you way more than you will collect. In the meantime the company sells it's assets to another company headquartered in Costa Rica owned by his wife. Then declares bankruptcy.

You SOL buddy. You won the case, spent thousands of $$, wasted several years of your life fighting something that could have been averted by placing a copyright or logo on your video. Sure it can be removed but the thief will probably move on looking for some other person that believes:

Why would anyone be interested to copy our videos?
How many of us need to watermark our videos anyway?
Is it a big deal if someone copied my home videos?

Food for thought.

Marty

I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY. NOTHING WRITTEN HERE SHOULD BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVISE. ANY QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO THIS ISSUE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO AN ATTORNEY WITH EXPERIENCE IN THIS FIELD.

Marty  –  11 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+13)

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