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.
#Lightwrite 6 pdf#
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. 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.