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Individual Watermarking

User identification via watermarking

RePro’s Individual Watermarking is a powerful deterrent against unauthorised recording, redistribution, or leakage of sensitive content. When enabled, this feature overlays dynamic, user-specific information directly on the video playback – visible to the viewer but difficult to remove or obscure.

What Is Individual Watermarking?

This feature allows organisations to enforce personalised watermarks at the project level, helping trace and discourage content misuse. These watermarks are displayed on all supported platforms: web, iOS, and tvOS.

Intelligent Motion: RePro watermarks include subtle, intelligent movement across the screen. This reduces the effectiveness of AI or software-based watermark removal tools by making the watermark harder to isolate or erase.

Configurable Watermark Details

When setting up Individual Watermarking, you can choose to display any combination of the following:

Viewer’s name

User ID

IP address

• A custom generic message (e.g. “Property of [Company Name]”)

These details are overlaid as text directly on the video, and help clearly associate the viewer with the playback session.

Visual Customisation

Opacity Control: Adjust the transparency of the watermark to balance visibility with viewer experience.

Exceptions for Trusted Viewers

You can selectively disable watermarking for specific viewers by assigning them to a group with the “Disable watermark” setting enabled. This is ideal for:

Heads of Department (HODs)

Executive-level reviewers

Production leads or trusted internal staff

How to Enable

1. Navigate to your Project Settings in the RePro dashboard.

2. Look for the 'Individual Watermark Settings'.

3. Toggle Individual Watermarking on with 'Enable watermark'.

4. Choose which elements to display (Name, User ID, IP, or Message).

5. Set your preferred opacity level.

6. Save your settings.

Individual Watermark Settings previewing name, ID and IP over Property of [COMPANY NAME], with opacity at 45 per cent

To allow watermark-free viewing to specific users or groups:

1. Go to the UserGroups page.

2. Create or edit a group.

3. Enable the Disable watermark setting.

4. Add trusted users to this group only.

The User Groups list with a droplet icon on every row and Test Group's Disable Watermark switched off
Close-up of a group header with Access toggled on and Disable Watermark toggled off, beside droplet and info icons

A user who is in a group with individual side watermarking disabled will not receive a watermark on their player, even if they are in other groups that are not watermark disabled.

When watermarking is enabled for a project, you will see the droplet icons against groups. Any groups that have been disabled from watermarking will have a 'crossed out' watermark.

Test Group with Disable Watermark switched on, arrows marking the crossed-out droplet icon on its row and in the panel
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