Add an overlay to your 360 photobooth videos

An overlay is a picture that sits on top of every clip from your event.
Operators use it for a couple's names, an event date, a sponsor's artwork,
or a frame around the video.

The overlay is baked into the video file. Guests get it whether they
download the clip, share it, or save it months later. It cannot be removed
afterwards, so it is worth getting it right before the event.

There are two ways to make one. Start from a template and edit it in the app,
or upload artwork you have designed yourself.

Before you start: what needs Pro

Anyone can browse the templates and try them in the editor. What needs Pro is
having an overlay on your clips. On the free plan, every clip is rendered with
the Logibooth sample watermark instead, whichever template or file you choose.

This is the one thing Pro changes: whose brand is on the clips. Everything
else in Logibooth is the same on both plans.

On the free plan, saving a Pro template or uploading your own file opens the
Pro screen.

Start from a template

1. Open the app and tap Projects.
2. Tap the event you want to brand.
3. Tap the Branding tab.
4. Under VIDEO BRANDING, tap Overlay image.

The Overlay catalogue opens. Templates are grouped by occasion, and any
style you have used before collects under Your styles, so the next event
is one tap.

Tap a template to open it in the editor. Tap a piece of text on the preview to
select it, then use Text, Font, Size, Colour, Style and
Effects to change it. The preview is the finished overlay, so what you see
is what goes on the clips. When it looks right, tap Save overlay.

A template is drawn at the clip shape you are setting it for, so you never
work out a canvas size and it cannot come out stretched.

Which template suits which event, and how to word it so it still reads on a
spinning clip, is covered in
choosing a 360 photo booth overlay template.

Or upload your own file

If you already have artwork, tap Upload at the top of the catalogue
instead. The file needs to be:

• A PNG with a transparent background. A JPG has no transparency, so it
  will cover the whole video.
• Full frame, matching the booth's Clip shape. 1080 x 1920 for portrait,
  1920 x 1080 for landscape.
• Under 10 MB.

The overlay covers the entire clip, edge to edge. Anything solid in the
middle of the image will hide the guests. Keep the middle clear and put
your artwork near the edges.

Every finished clip is rendered at the shape the booth is set to, whatever
phone recorded it. That is Portrait 9:16 (1080 x 1920) unless you changed
Clip shape in Booth Settings, in which case it is Landscape 16:9 (1920 x
1080). Match your file to that.

That is why the shape matters for your own file: a file in any other ratio is
stretched to fill the frame, so it ends up squashed and with its artwork in the
wrong place on every clip of the event. Nothing warns you when you pick the
file, so check the booth's setting before you export the artwork.

Any editor that exports a transparent PNG will do. Canva, Photoshop and
Figma all export one.

Two things surprise people when uploading.

Your file may look blank in the photo picker. A transparent PNG with
white artwork is invisible against the picker's white background. Pick it
anyway. If you are not sure which file is yours, put a coloured shape in a
corner while you test.

The row shows a long file name afterwards, not your file name. Something
like image_picker_FC638AE8…. That is normal. The blue tick means it is
set.

Do this while you have internet, whichever way you make the overlay. It
uploads to the cloud so that every paired device at your event can use it. If
you add an overlay at a venue with no connection, the other devices will not
have it.

Your logo on top of the overlay

The Logo on videos row is separate from the overlay. It bakes your logo
into a corner you choose, at an opacity you choose.

You can use both at once. Logibooth merges your logo into your overlay
before rendering, because the video pipeline takes one image.

Two things have to be set or the logo is skipped without a warning:

• a corner position, chosen in Logo on videos
• a logo on the brand the event is using. That is your business logo, or the
  event identity logo if the event has set one

If either is missing, the clip renders with the overlay only.

One overlay per event, unless a booth overrides it

The overlay you set on the Branding tab applies to every clip that event
produces, on every booth.

A booth can override it in its own settings. That is useful when you run
two booths at one venue for two different sponsors.

If your overlay does not appear

Work down this list in order.

1. Check your plan. On free, the sample watermark replaces your overlay.
   This is the most common cause.
2. If you uploaded your own file, check it is a PNG with real
   transparency. Open it over a coloured background in your editor. If you
   cannot see through it, the video cannot either.
3. If you uploaded your own file, check the shape. A square or landscape
   image gets fitted to a 9:16 clip and will not line up.
4. Check the booth. If that booth has its own overlay set, it is using
   that one, not the event's.
5. Check when you added it. Clips that have already finished processing
   keep the branding they were made with, because baking happens once and a
   finished clip is never re-rendered. Clips still waiting in the queue are
   fine: the app reads your branding again at processing time, so anything
   recorded but not yet processed will pick up the overlay you just added.