Watermark many videos at once

One watermark for the whole shoot

MarkDrift can watermark many videos at once, for free, with one set of settings for the whole batch. If you post every day, you rarely have one video to mark. You have fifteen Reels from Saturday's shoot, some filmed vertical, some landscape, a couple in 4K and a screen recording at 720p. This page sets the tool up for that job. Add them all, pick one set of settings, press one button, and walk away while they finish.

You don't have to fix anything per file. Every size in the tool is measured against the short side of each frame, so a Medium mark looks the same on a 720p vertical clip as on a 4K landscape one. Phone videos saved with rotation info come out the right way up.

How to watermark many videos at once

1. Click "Choose videos or photos" and select all your clips in one go (hold Ctrl or Shift, or Cmd on a Mac), or drag the whole selection onto the page. Forgot some? "Add more" puts extra files on the end of the list.
2. Look over the list. Each row shows the video's size, whether it's vertical or landscape, and how long it is. Click any row to preview your mark on that clip, or use the remove button on a row you don't want.
3. In "Your watermark", type your handle or choose your logo. Whatever you set here goes on every video in the list.
4. In "Style", pick one for the batch. "Moving" is a good choice for most batches: it's easy to read and there's no corner to crop off.
5. In "Size and strength", choose a size, then check it on your two most different clips: click a vertical one, then a landscape one.
6. In "More options", check "Video quality". "Keep original quality" keeps each file near its own original size.
7. Click the button, which counts your files for you, for example "Watermark 15 videos". Chrome and Edge ask you to pick a folder once, and every finished video is saved into it. Safari and Firefox download each video as soon as it's done.

What happens while the batch runs

Videos are made one after another, not all at the same time, so your computer isn't trying to encode fifteen files at once. The progress line shows where you are in the whole batch, along the lines of "Video 3 of 5 · 61% · about 0:02 left", and each row in the list shows its own percentage and then "Saved".

A bad file doesn't sink the batch. If one video fails, the rest carry on, and the message at the end names the one that didn't make it. If you press "Stop", everything that was already saved stays saved, and the half-finished video is thrown away so you don't end up with a broken file.

Nothing in your folder gets overwritten. Each new file has "-watermarked" in its name, and if that name is already taken in the folder, the tool adds "-2" and keeps going.

For timing, our own test gives a rough guide: a 3-minute 1080p clip took about 19 seconds in Chrome on a mid-range laptop. Add up the length of your clips for a ballpark, and expect your own device to be faster or slower. Keep the tab open until the last row says "Saved".

When a batch is the right tool, and when it isn't

Batching is made for the common case: one creator or one brand, one mark, lots of clips. It's also handy for an agency with a single client's week of content, or a shop filming a run of product videos on the same afternoon.

It's less handy when the clips need different marks. Every video in a run gets the same settings, so if you post for three clients, do three batches, one logo each. There's no way yet to nudge the mark on one clip only, so if a single video needs its mark somewhere special, take it out and do it on its own afterwards.

Photos batch separately. If you drop photos and videos together, the photos go to the "Photos" tab and come back as one ZIP. See batch watermarking photos. And if you're not sure which style suits a whole batch, the moving watermark page explains the moving options in detail.

Batch questions

Page updated 1 October 2026.