Theater Kids Everywhere Are Haunted By The “Rehearsal Tracks” Watermark

I was editing a video for a client and sent a demo version for approval. I’d used an audio track someone else had made. I thought it fit the video nicely and figured the client would sign off on it. The only problem was that because it was a demo of the track, it had an audio watermark; every now and then, the track would say, “Audio network.”

Client: “What’s with this song? The talking is really distracting.”

Me: “It’s a watermark. When we purchase the track, we’ll get a version without it.”

Client: “Well, go ahead and buy it so we don’t have that talking.”

I purchased the track and resent the video with the un-watermarked song.

Client: “I don’t like this song. Can we get a new one?”