Signature Layer: dust, lines and your logos over the video

Applies to 0.11Updated 10 Nov 20262 min read

Mark your video with soft dust specks, thin vertical lines and your logos, all in one Signature clip you can save as a preset.

Pro.

Add a signature

• Graphics and Titles › Signature Layer…
• Length: Selected clips, Whole sequence or In to Out.
• Preset: Default, or one you saved.
• Add Logo or Graphic…: one or more pictures. A PNG with transparency works best.
• Add Signature puts one clip, Signature, above everything in that stretch.

Change it

• Double-click the Signature clip. Inside are a Dust and Lines track and one Logo track per logo. Move and size the logos as any clip.
• The effect VLFilm Signature Dust & Lines (Effects panel › VLFilm › Film & Texture) has Dust Amount, Dust Size, Dust Color, Dust Opacity, Vertical Lines, Line Width, Line Length, Line Color, Line Opacity, Speed (how often the pattern changes, 0 = still) and Random Seed (the same seed always draws the same pattern).
• Sizes follow the frame, so a vertical or 4K sequence looks the same.

Save it for every project

• Select the Signature clip, then Graphics and Titles › Save as Signature Preset…. The dust and lines and the logos (file, place, size, opacity) are kept under a name and offered in every project.

To be honest: a signature marks your footage clearly and makes it harder to reuse, but no overlay can make copying impossible.