Channel Watermark

Everything below can be changed without touching the animation. Hand the list to an agent, or edit the values at the bottom of the component file.

• Monogram

  monogram · string

  The initials inside the enclosure. One to three characters — two is the classic monogram and the size steps down for three. Longer strings are cut, because a word in a small box is not a monogram.

  now: HW

• Handle

  handle · string

  The channel handle beside the mark, set as you type it. Leave it empty for the enclosure on its own, which is what you want once an audience already knows the mark.

  now: @holtwoodshop

• Note

  note · string

  A second, smaller line under the handle — an establishment year, a city, a series name. It is what turns a monogram and an address into a maker's mark, and it is the one place a specific belongs. Empty drops it.

  now: EST. 2016

• Anchor

  anchor · "top-right" | "top-left" | "bottom-right" | "bottom-left"

  Which corner it occupies. Top-right by default: the bottom-right is taken by YouTube's own watermark, the bottom edge by the scrubber, and the top-left by the player's title. The enclosure's cut corner follows this.

  now: top-right

• Inset

  inset · number

  Distance from both frame edges, as a fraction of the shorter side. The default sits comfortably inside the title-safe area; push it in if your player's chrome crowds the corner.

  now: 0.072

• Opacity

  opacity · number

  How hard the mark is inked once it has arrived. Two thirds is the honest setting for footage you want watched; below about 0.35 you are relying on the shadows alone and over bright detail it will disappear.

  now: 0.66

• Polarity

  polarity · "auto" | "light" | "dark"

  Which way round the mark is. `auto` takes the brand's own ink. Force `light` or `dark` when your footage is consistently one or the other — it picks the lightest or darkest token the brand already has, and the halo behind it always flips to the opposite.

  now: auto

• Scale

  scale · number

  Size of the lockup. The corner margin does not scale with it — that belongs to the frame, not to the mark.

  now: 1

• Stand in

  standIn · boolean

  Draw the stand-in shot behind the mark — a dark room with a window and a bench, so the watermark can be judged over real tone instead of over black. It is a demo backing and not part of the mark: switch it off when you burn this over your own video.

  now: true

• Ground

  ground · boolean

  Paint a plain brand ground behind the mark. Off by default — this is an overlay, so with the stand-in off as well it renders on a clean alpha channel and drops straight onto your own footage.

  now: true

• Brand

  brand · string

  Brand token id — one of the keys of BRANDS.

  now: slate