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Separate watermarking options for videos and photos

Gene Member
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It would be nice to have separate watermark options for photos and videos. I don't use watermark feature in zenphoto right now, but I'd like to watermark the video thumbnails so when users are browsing or searching the gallery they can see it's a video before clicking on it.

I'm currently making this possible by adding a watermark to the video thumbnails when they are generated, but it would be nice to have it done automagically.

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  • sbillard Member
    Did you try setting the video watermarking options?
  • Gene Member
    Haha. It's right there on the page.

    "Watermark video thumbs"

    I am the winner. Sorry for the unnecessary post.
  • kaliatech Member
    Just to clarify for anyone else that comes across this:

    The "Watermark video thumbs" option is a global option on the admin->options->image tab. Although image and thumbnail watermarks can also be set per album, the per album settings do not apply to video thumbnails.

    (I found this out after researching why printCustomSizedImage would not apply a watermark to my video thumbnails even with the thumbStandin parameter set true. I didn't realize there was a global watermark setting specific to video thumbnails until I saw the post above and started looking for it.)
  • sbillard Member
    Well, since the thumbnail images for videos are separate images anyway, you could just make them with the watermark to start with. That way you can have a different one for each video.
  • kaliatech Member
    Agreed. However, it is very convenient to have the watermark applied automatically to the video thumbnails that I generate.

    It's trivial to make an image snapshot from video with programs like VLC or FFMPEG. It takes another application and couple of minutes time to overlay a watermark on to the image though. I like having the consistent watermarks to differentiate photos from videos in my albums.

    (Btw, thanks for your work on Zenphoto. I was a long time Gallery2 user. I had some trouble adapting to Gallery3, so picked up Zenphoto and have found it to work quite well.)
  • sbillard Member
    The intent of that option was to, as you say, have a consistent watermark to distinguish videos from images. But I guess if there is no distinct image selected the watermarking of these items should follow the lead of normal images.

    We will see if we can get that into the next release.
  • kaliatech Member
    Just to be clear, my only suggestion based on my initial confusion, would be to add a "Video Thumbnails Watermark" option to the album admin page. I think that would make things a little more consistent between global and album specific settings. See the screenshot with what I'm referring to called out specifically here: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5736873602_9a5f71265b_b_d.jpg

    That said, it would be a very minor feature addition. I doubt many people need to have album specific video thumbnail watermarks. (I know I don't. I just had trouble initially finding the correct place to specify the video thumbnail watermarks because I was only looking at the per album settings.)
  • sbillard Member
    It would actually be quite a bit of feature addition. Each album (image?) would have to have storage for the thumbnail and the thumbnail fetching would need to become aware of another option.

    I also do not see why it would be needed. It seems to me that either you want an album's thumbnails to have the same watermark or you want the video thumbnails to all have the same watermark. Seems overkill to have different video watermarks fore each album. (Besides, there are more than just videos that this would apply to--text objects and their derivitives. Too much overhead for little benefit.)
  • kaliatech Member
    "Too much overhead for little benefit."

    I agree.
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