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What each generator documents about marking its output

Operator guides, and the reason printed beside a mark

Three entries here come from a guide written for the person operating the tool. That genre is the one that publishes a reason for the mark and the stage of the pipeline it is applied at. As of 2026-09-22.

What an operator guide adds that a grid never carriesAcross these three entries the operator guide is the document that supplies a reason for the mark and the stage of the pipeline where it lands. Both are operational facts, useful to whoever runs the tool and irrelevant to whoever is choosing a subscription.A compliance guideA switch, on by defaultA stated reason: two labelson one frameApplied at compositing, sothe episode carries itA console guideAn unremovable stampA stated reason: legalcompliance requirementsApplied on one surface, notto the modelA user guideA caveat, not a featureA check works unlessmetadata was removedQualifies a standard namedon the service cardWhat the operator is toldWhat follows for the delivered file
Fig. 1 Two of the three columns here exist on no other kind of source document in this register.
Entries read from an operator guide, with the default that guide describes. Read 2026-09-22.
GeneratorWhat the guide says the output carriesDocument read
Amazon Nova ReelInvisible watermark on all videosAI service card
SceneMixerVisible watermark, on by defaultcompliance guide
WanConsole always stamps AI generatedvideo generation guide

Inclusion rule. Entries whose recorded values come from a document that explains how to run the product, including compliance guidance and console instructions. Order. Alphabetical by the name in the first column.

1A reason is a thing only this genre prints

SceneMixer's compliance guide gives a reason for switching its watermark off that has nothing to do with money: a publishing platform that adds a label of its own would otherwise put two labels on one frame. Wan's console guide gives a reason for the opposite decision, attributing the unremovable console stamp to legal compliance requirements. Two guides, two reasons, both published beside the mechanism.

No pricing grid on this register carries a reason of any kind, and no card explains why its watermark exists rather than what it is. Reasons show up where the reader is assumed to be making an operational decision, because a reason is what an operator needs in order to choose.

2The stage of the pipeline is the other exclusive

SceneMixer's guide places the visible mark at compositing, the step where separate generated segments become an episode. That single word decides which files carry it: the deliverable does, the intermediate clips do not. Wan's guide localises its stamp to one surface instead of one step, which has the same effect of telling an operator exactly which outputs are affected.

Both are answers to a question a buyer never asks and an editor always does. A register built only from grids would record the same two vendors as marked and unmarked with nothing in between, and would miss that one of them marks the master while the other marks everything from one door.

3Guidance is weaker evidence than a parameter

The cost of this genre is vagueness about the file. SceneMixer's guide tells publishers to keep whatever content credentials or generation metadata the tool writes and warns that re-encoding can strip that layer. Something is clearly written, and the guide neither names a scheme nor lists a field, so the machine-readable cell records not documented and the sentence is kept as a row of its own.

Nova Reel's user guide contributes the mirror case: its caveat about metadata being removed is precise because the service card already named the standard. A guide read next to a reference produces a usable row; a guide read alone produces an implication, and this register does not promote implications into cells.

4Sources

  • Visible mark
    A visible watermark is applied to composited episodes and is on by defaultstated in the vendor's own guideSceneMixer, compliance guide / recorded 2026-09-12
  • User toggle
    An AIGC watermark switch in settings turns it offno plan condition statedSceneMixer, compliance guide / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Free tier
    Videos generated on the Online Experience page of the Model Studio console always carry a watermark: the text AI generated in the lower-right corner of the videothe console surfaceModel Studio, video generation guide / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Durability
    The user guide adds that such a check should indicate the file was generated unless the metadata has been removedthe vendor's own caveatAmazon Nova user guide, video generation / recorded 2026-09-22

Every line above is read from the document named beside its row, on 2026-09-22. The same values in their register form are on the support table, and the rules for what a cell may hold are on the what earns a row page. Other kinds of source document: licence terms, research notes.