How to put a badge in the corner saying where the clip came from

Last updated 2026-09-05 · 8 min read

What is the short version?

A small persistent mark that says where a clip came from — "from the episode", a show name, a source — makes a clip legible on a feed. The work is not drawing it. The work is making sure it reads on every shot the video contains.

1. Go to Vizard Agent with the cut.
2. Say what the badge says and where it sits.
3. Ask for it throughout, checked on every shot.

What do you need before you start?

The wording and a corner. Everything else — the size, the exact colour, whether it needs an icon — is better decided by looking at options on your own frames than by specifying it up front, because a size that works on a wide shot can disappear on a close-up.

• The words. Short; a badge is not a sentence.
• Which corner. And whether it can move.
• The colour. Or say "make it stand out".
• Whether it flashes. A pulse draws the eye.
• An icon, if you want one beside it.

What do you type into Vizard Agent?

Tell Vizard Agent that it runs throughout, in those words. A badge added to the opening of a video is a title; a badge that persists to the end is a source mark, and those are two quite different requests that look almost identical written down in a single sentence.

Prompt

Variants worth knowing:

• "Throughout the video." Not just at the start.
• "A bit bigger." Iterate rather than specify.
• "Close to the text." Icons drift otherwise.

What does Vizard Agent actually do?

Here is the order Vizard Agent worked in on a real commentary edit that needed a persistent source badge. Notice how often something is built in more than one version and then compared rather than judged in isolation.

1. Measures the current graphic sizes already in the cut.
2. Builds three sizes of the element and compares them.
3. Renders the chosen size and checks it.
4. Checks the graphic's timeline — when it appears and for how long.
5. Tests two positions and compares them on real frames.
6. Renders with the graphic moved and its display extended.
7. Builds the flashing badge and checks it on a frame.
8. Renders with the badge and checks it across the whole video.
9. Rebuilds it in red with a camera icon and checks that.
10. Enlarges the icon and checks it again.
11. Checks whether an icon font is installed at all.
12. Compares three icon options side by side.
13. Renders with the chosen icon and re-checks the badge throughout.

Step eight is the one that separates a badge from a mistake. A mark that sits perfectly in the top right of the opening shot can land on a face, a caption or a bright window later on, and the only way to know is to look at it on every shot rather than on the first one.

Step twelve is worth copying whenever an icon is involved. Icons at badge size are mostly silhouette, and something that reads clearly as a camera at full size can read as a grey blob at the size it actually appears — so a few are drawn and compared rather than one being accepted.

What does the result look like?

A small mark in the corner, in the colour you asked for, present from the first frame to the last, readable on every shot in the video, with an icon beside it that Vizard Agent confirmed is recognisable at the size it is actually seen.

It tells a scrolling viewer where the clip came from without taking any attention from what is in it.

When does this not work well?

Corners are busy places on a phone. Platform interfaces cover them, captions creep towards them, and a badge that survives everything in your own edit can still end up hidden behind a follow button or a progress bar once the video is actually posted.

• Platform overlays. Corners get covered on some feeds.
• Very busy footage. Nothing small reads over it.
• Vertical crops. The safe area is much tighter.
• Long wording. A badge is three or four words.
• A flashing badge on a fast cut. It reads as an error.

How do you fix a result that came back wrong?

Say where it fails rather than what to change. Vizard Agent keeps the size and position tests, so "it disappears over the bright shot" leads to a contrast fix at that point rather than to a bigger badge everywhere.

• "It vanishes on some shots." Contrast or a backing plate added.
• "Too big now." The next size down from the comparison.
• "The icon is unrecognisable." Another option from the set.
• "It covers a caption." Moved, or the caption lowered.

How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?

By hand a badge is placed once, on whichever frame happened to be on screen, and checked on that frame. It then spends the rest of the video sitting somewhere nobody looked, which is why so many of them end up over a face.

Common questions

How long should the wording be? Three or four words. Vizard Agent will tell you if it is too long.

Can it flash or pulse? Yes. Vizard Agent builds it and shows you on a frame.

Will it cover anything? Vizard Agent checks every shot and moves it if it does.

Can it appear only sometimes? Yes. Say when and Vizard Agent times it.

What if my icon is not available? Vizard Agent checks for an icon font and offers alternatives.

Can I supply my own icon? Yes, and Vizard Agent will size it against the text.

Which corner is safest? It depends on the platform. Vizard Agent works to the safe area.

Will it survive a vertical crop? Only if placed for it. Say which formats you need.

Can it use my brand colour? Yes. Give the value or a page to read it from.

Should it have a background? Often, over busy footage. Vizard Agent can add a subtle plate.

Can it say something different per clip? Yes. Vizard Agent can run a batch with the source named in each one.

Does it slow the render down? Barely. For Vizard Agent it is a small overlay.

Can I see it at phone size? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent to check it at the size it is watched.

Why compare sizes instead of specifying one? Because a size in pixels means nothing until you see it over your own footage at the size people actually watch.