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Check with the FontCapture PDF to make sure you don’t miss any. Keep going, and make sure you get all the characters you’ll want for your customizable Lightwriting videos. It’s easier to redo now that trying to replicate it later! If you think you’ve messed up on lightwriting a letter, don’t sweat it! Just repeat it a couple of times. The 5 that is reversed in this screengrab was lightwritten so that it read correctly to me as I was writing it, so here it is wrong.

The 4, 5, and 6 that read properly here were drawn backwards. Imagine that you are “writing” on a piece of glass to make it legible to those on the other side! But here’s the thing to remember: Unless you plan on flipping each frame, you’ve got reverse each letter. When you’ve got a friend snapping each frame, you’ll know when it’s time to write the next letter. If you’ve set a repeat timer to make each shot, as I did, it’s just a matter of paying attention to the shutter click and drawing each letter when the shutter opens. Wear dark clothing and gloves to totally “hide” yourself if you want the letters against a clean dark background.

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Set your camera to its lowest ISO and set your shutter speed to 2.5 seconds and experiment with aperture to get the ambient lighting (or lack thereof) level to your liking. We chose to make the dancing fire the other focal point in our frame. Decide if you want any ambient light in your lightwriting videos and if so, pick an interesting background such as a decorated tree or lighting display. These two frames were shot with virtually identical settings (ISO 50 2 seconds/2.5 sec f/11) just minutes apart as twilight faded, but have completely different background exposures.

Consider black gloves to hide your hands during the shots.

Shoot medium or large JPG for quick and easy drag-dropping into iMovie.

Wait until nightfall is complete so that the ambient lighting levels stay constant, and adjust your aperture down to minimize ambient light, or keep it a bit wide if you want some of the non-lightwriting elements in the frame.

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Once your focus is set, switch to manual focus so the camera does not try to refocus between shots.

A long exposure of about 2.5 to 3 seconds is a good amount of time to allow you to neatly draw each character.

An interesting background for ambient-lighting lightwriting videos, or some animation element such as the fire pit in our above example.

Either a repeatable self-timer for your camera, such as this one for Canon SLRs, a friend to shoot each frame, or much patience to self-time and reposition yourself from each shot.

An SLR or EVF camera that can shoot long exposures up to 3 seconds each.

A wide-angle lens for good depth of field.

A small LED flashlight for drawing out each letter.

FontCapture is very cool, and the original intent of this site is to easily turn your personal handwriting into a font, but we’re going to use it to create our light-writing a font in the second half of this tutorial. If you want, you can skip some of the accented letters and rarer special symbols in this list, but be sure to include anything you’re likely to use in your video titles and so on.

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Download this PDF from FontCapture for a full list of the 128 characters in a standard keyboard font. Lightwriting How-To from Adorama Learning Center on Vimeo.Ĭlick the HD is Off button to view this fullscreen over at !įirst things first: Making the Light Writing alphabetThe first thing you need to do is create your alphabet–both capitals, lower case, numbers, symbols, and any other special characters you may want: 5 point stars, 6 point stars, spirals, squiggles, smileys, and whatnot. We used iMovie, Garage Band, along with Adobe Bridge CS4 for the making of this video, but you should be able to easily translate these steps to whichever video, audio and photo browser you are most comfortable with.

Here’s a Lightwriting video we made to illustrate and point to this How-To on Vimeo So, here, well in time for the holiday season, is a step-by-step guide for making your own Light writing shots to make light writing videos, and even a light-writing font! It was very well received by our friends, and several people asked how we went about the Light Writing bit.

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Last year, we made a holiday video stitched from a series of still frames of my wife spelling out “H-A-P-P-Y–H-O-L-I-D-A-Y-S” with a pocket LED flashlight.