Small: 30” and 45” models have a lightweight design and are available with integrated camera. This enables speedy deployment in a relatively small space (2m x 2m), such as a home office or small conference room, and can be managed by one person with limited camera and filming knowledge. Think about your session length and workflow. A small lightboard is easy to ‘pop-up’ and use for 15 minutes on a Zoom call. No time messing around with camera settings. They come with a ‘blackout hood’ which attaches to the lightboard and eliminates light in the room. Short, ‘punchy’, sessions with well organised content will maximise impact.

Large: The larger 68” and 88” models require a dedicated space such as a studio or large room (4m x 5m). It is essential to be able to control lighting levels and background noise. Expertise operating a professional grade camera will also be required. Large lightboards have the main advantage that the glass writing surface is far greater, meaning more versatile use. For example, long mathematical formulas can be written, or large graphics and diagrams can be displayed. You can also include two presenters which adds a different dynamic to your content delivery.

Lightboard Video Post-Production Tips

I’m Stefan Szkok, Video Producer and Lightboard Specialist at Learning Glass Europe. I’ve produced over 200 Lightboard videos, for many different use cases, and wanted to provide our clients with some post-production guidance based on my experience.

Depending on the camera settings and lighting, your original footage and colour grading may vary and likely be different to the example (my screenshots of the test footage and colour grading parameters are from Adobe Premiere).

Whatever your situation, you’ll always be able to enhance your recorded footage in post-production.

I hope you found this useful and please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Here are some useful tips to try out:

• Start with a bit of Contrast: this will gain the highlights and will bring the ‘black’ background level down a little.
• Raise the Highlights: this will help to raise the contrast of your drawing/writing. Please note, that if you raise it too much, the presenter’s face can be overexposed, so be careful 😊
• Whites: this will add some more brightness to the presenter if needed.
• Blacks: further to adjusting the black background with the contrast, you can fine tune the black with this option.
• You may also choose to add some extra Sharpness to the footage. This is not essential but does add a level of ‘crispness’ to the video that you may prefer.

Customer Spotlight

Have you thought about using Lightboard presentations to help students who are lip reading?

Lightboards are a great way to visualise and explain topics but also give continuous facial contact between teachers and students making them perfect for lip reading! 

Take a look at this video testimonial from our client at the University of Lucerne who are using Lightboards to make their presentations more engaging and also more accessible for students with hearing impairments. 

"I've had students who required or were depending on lip reading, and so that for me was the perfect way to stay in touch, with student and allow for that.  

I've had a few students giving me verbal feedback saying that This is so, innovative. We really appreciate that you took all this effort, to to make the lecture more interesting and more engaging in these, digital learning phases."

University of Lucerne: Prof. Dr. Leif Brandes, Professor of Marketing & Strategy