Forensic watermarking is a security technology intended to deter the leaking of video assets throughout the various life cycles of a production. Forensic watermarking helps protect your content and helps to identify the source of a content leak quickly and efficiently, so that effective anti-piracy action can be taken.
FAQs
1. Can the Forensic Watermarking be enabled in our QA environment first?
Yes. Forensic Watermarking could enabled on any sub production environment first. But there is a cost for the license, so either we'd have to pay that or they'd ha ve to have their own. There is also extra cost to us in the env since we have to provision more resources to support it
2. How long does it take to implement Forensic Watermarking
When automated forensic watermarking is enabled on a site, any video that meets the automation criteria (e.g. your site watermarks all videos 10 minutes and longer), then the forensic watermark is applied during the time it takes to process your original file during upload.
When manually adding a forensic watermark to a file, the watermark will be applied in the same amount of time it took to process the file during upload.
3. Is there any the impact of Forensic Watermarking to the environment or files on the environment?
If you have many large files going through the forensic process, you may notice a bit of a slow down on your system for the ingest process.
4. Does Forensic Watermarking happen automatically or manually?
It can be both. For environments that have the capability enabled, you can manually enable the forensic watermark within the more option of the file and selecting Process forensic. Core can also be configure to automatically trigger the watermark based on video length. For example, all video assets that are 30 minutes or longer. To enable automated forensic watermarking on your site, please send a request to [email protected] and include the desired auto trigger timeframe. If you do not already have forensic enable on your site, you may be contacted by your account manager.
5. When is Forensic applied to the content?
Forensic is applied to the asset when the criteria for automation is triggered, or when a user manually applies a forensic watermark to an individual file.
With Automation: During upload, the asset goes through a profiling state during the processing phase and the technology identifies portions of the asset’s bitstream where imperceptible forensic watermarking changes are to be made. When an asset is viewed the forensic changes are now included in the bit stream as part of the asset. If the video is downloaded, forensic is already a part of the asset.
With Manual Application: The same process as automation takes place once a user selects "Process forensic" on a given asset.