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What each generator documents about marking its output

Full-frame mark: output that is not footage

A full-frame mark covers the picture rather than occupying part of it. There is nothing outside it to crop to, so the output demonstrates what a tool can do and cannot be used as material. As of 2026-09-22.

What is left to work with, by geometryA corner badge leaves a composition that can be cut, reviewed and in some formats delivered. A mark covering the frame leaves nothing outside itself, so the output demonstrates a capability and cannot become material, which removes the risk of it leaking into finished work.A mark on part of the frameA mark over the frameWhat remainsA usable composition, brandedNothing outside the markClient reviewPossiblePossible, and obviously a demoRisk of leaking into a cutReal, and commonAlmost nonePublished in this registerPosition, on one entryExtent, on one entryThe same word covers both on most pages
Fig. 1 The most restrictive geometry creates the fewest downstream problems, which is why no column here is a ranking.
How this register uses the term, and what it excludes. Written 2026-09-22.
The termFull-frame mark
What it namesA mark covering the whole picture
What it is notA badge occupying part of the frame
Where the register uses itOne reading, where a vendor publishes the extent

Inclusion rule. Words this site uses in a narrow sense, where the ordinary sense would lead a reader to misread a cell. No vendor statement appears on this page. Order. Fixed order: what the word names, what it excludes, then where it is used here.

1A different purpose, not a stronger version of the same thing

A corner badge and a full-frame overlay are usually described with the same word and do different jobs. The first brands material that is still deliverable. The second makes delivery impossible, which turns the offering into a demonstration: a prospective customer can see exactly what the tool produces and can do nothing with the result.

That distinction matters when reading a free-tier column. Several entries mark free output and leave it perfectly usable; one covers the frame. A reader comparing those cells on the word alone would conclude the two free tiers are equivalent, and they are not remotely.

2What it does to the risk a free tier creates

Most of this register's interest in free tiers is about material leaking into finished work: an evaluation clip that somebody kept, a contributor's trial shot that reached an edit. A full-frame mark removes that risk almost entirely, because nobody can use the file even by accident.

So the most restrictive geometry is also the one that creates the fewest downstream problems. That inversion is worth naming, because it is the clearest case against reading any column here as a ranking: the value that looks worst for a trial user is the safest one for whoever inherits footage later.

3Why extent is almost never published

Extent is the single most useful attribute of a mark and it appears on one page in this register. A grid has no reason to print it and a safety document has no reason to measure it, so it tends to show up only where a vendor is justifying a limitation to somebody who is about to hit it.

Where it is not published, the register records not documented rather than inferring from a sample. A mark that covered the frame in one downloaded clip is one clip, and promoting that into a documented geometry would mix an observation into a column of citations.

Nothing on this page is a vendor statement; the values it helps read are on the support table, with the page and the date each one was read from. See also the free tier column, metadata against watermark. Nearby terms: moving mark, brand mark, invisible watermark.