Batch watermarking many video clips

I'm reorganizing my stock footage libaray and need to convert thousands of HD clips to flash for samples and comps and hopefully at the same time place a watermark across the clips.
Can anyone help me figure out how to do this?  I did a search on the internet and it seems there are some batch programs out there, but the only ones I found were for PC's.
thx...jw
MacPro/CS4 system

seems like you're doing it right, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
It sounds like you shot 100 clips, each with their own individual audio. And you have a high quality version of that same audio which takes place on the clips
I assume the 100 clips are in a sort of sequence (clip 1 is mind 1, clip 100 is minute 1 hundred), where as the audio is all of the audio that the clips would have in 1 file.
If thats the case, it sounds like you could just use the multi camera sequence and it would go as far as lining up all the audio and video together, assuming that the audio in the clips is the same (or VERY similar) to the high quality version. The multicam can sync them up on audio, and once sequenced you could fiddle with it.
Now this does get muddy if you video clips are over lapping, (both clips 1 &2 are on minute 1). If thats the case, you technically dont have to select all the video clips to the audio, you could do it multiple times.
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