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.

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

The duration to have forensic complete processing on a file is usually double the processing time. So if a video is 5 minutes long to process, expect approximately 10 mins to also finish forensic.

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.

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. We can also automatically trigger the watermark based on a desired duration of the file. To enable this, please send a request to [email protected] and include the desired auto trigger timeframe.

Forensic is applied to the asset when the forensic capability is triggered. 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 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.