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title: 'Adding a watermark'
description: 'An overview of the ways to watermark videos: burned-in watermarks, a video player overlay, and dynamic watermarking per recipient.'
url: https://www.medialab.co/support/account/branding/adding-a-watermark
---

# Adding a watermark

MediaLab offers different ways to apply watermarks to your videos:

- **Burned-In** - Enabled in **Media settings → Watermark**. The watermark is permanently added to selected video versions after upload. Existing files can be re-transcoded with the **Transcode** option in the file menu. The original source file remains unchanged.
- **Video Player Overlay** - Enabled in the **Share form**. The watermark image is displayed as an overlay within the video player during playback, without modifying the source file.
- **Dynamic Watermarking** - This is available as an additional feature and will burn the receiver email address into the video stream on playback time. 

**Note:**  Player Overlay and watermark options cannot be active at the same time, as this would result in two overlapping watermarks.