Lightboard Videos: How We Make Them 

thanks IBM

Sleep peacefully for two😂

same 😅

yeah... finally... almost blow my mind :)

I wish we did ... 😂

Not only do they can write backwards, they write backwards with their left hands lmao

LOL! This is so true but, hey, as long as people are learning, I’m happy 😊

Thanks for all the kind complements!

Cesar, you are very kind to say so! I do mean it sincerely, that I would never have been able to do any of these without the team that I work with who do them impossible every time and make me look good … somehow 😊

I’m so glad you like them!

Thanks so much!

It truly is a team effort!

Glad we could solve the mystery for you!

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It truly is. I get this question literally multiples every week

How about we just say it’s “magic” 😊

Usually people fall asleep when I talk and now I can put them out by just explaining this. Awesome! 😂

When you talk facts go straight to the head.

Magic! 😂 We have a talented team that helps with this. Those animations are added after the video is recorded. We just have to rehearse in advance what will happen, when and where and then let the creative guys do their thing

@@jeffcrume understood, that is well executed!

@@jeffcrume I thought so. but apparently it is well synchronised , well prepared. Awesome!.

The glass board has ultraviolet lights around the perimeter and a "talent" light strip on the presenter-side that illuminates them. You can adjust the brightness of either for brighter text / better illuminated presenter.

thanks for answering. Is that pencil special to look like that in those lights?

It's a "neon" type dry erase marker. It has phosphorus in the ink and the ultraviolet light makes it glow.

Let's pretend it is ... 😎

Exactly right! I was answering this question every week. Now I’ll let the video answer it for me. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be 10x that, right? 😊

@@jeffcrume Absolutely Jeff

Those are added in later in the post production process by one of our talented editors

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Keep your dreams. I can barely write forwards but I'm sure that with practice, you'll be able to write any direction you like! 😊

They are for sale in lots of places online. Do a bit of searching and I’m sure you’ll find one

😂😂😂 I remember that IBM. That’s the one I hired into 41 years ago. Feels like 3 lifetimes ago. I’m happy for the change. 😊

I suppose you could flip the image in real time if your camera supported that but it wouldn't give you the ability to do some of the nice animations that we do in the post edit process

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Sweet dreams! 😴😂

And so that people wouldn’t try to burn me at the stake … 😂

If any of these people actually knew me, they would know it’s a minor miracle that I can write forwards … 😂

Now that the magic has been revealed, can it still be magic? I hope so ... 😊

Maybe not? If you scan the comments, you'll find that it's asked several times a day. True confession from Dan Kehn: Before I joined this team, I wondered the same thing. ;-)

@@IBMTechnology I would put, on top of the description of every video, and also on a pinned comment: "click (this one) to learn how to write backwards in just few hours" (otherwise those asking "how do you..." are not going to click it) and "we'd appreciate just a like if you find this video useful" Nice to read comments, but too much of them are of void complimentary meaning.

«wasn't that obvios already?» -- If it was so obvious they wouldn't have produced this video. But here arises another question - how that to you, smart guy, wasn't obvious that it wasn't (so) obvious since that the mighty smarty IBM had to make this video? Take into account - as an advice - that smart programmers (and else) are often quite clumsy about things that are obvious to others. It's about focus of mind, and getting it obvious could also indicate a narrowness (smart on secondary issues).

His quasi-rhetorical question was actually meant to bait guys like you into responding.... Shall we keep the chain going?

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Sorry to disappoint ... 😂