Teleprompters

One thing that makes these videos more entertaining than a lot of others is the just goofy enough interjections like the backwards talking bit. Thanks for making things fun as well as informative.

John Comtois

I added this video to my latest video's end credits (also on teleprompters), although my video is more of a whistlestop tour thing. I bought myself a mini teleprompter, and I was worried about it being too close to my face / picking up my eyes darting, but I did some read tests and it seems to be OK. I think it's a combination of everything being smaller, including the line length, so there isn't really much scanning going on, but there's still enough text on the screen that I can comfortably see what's coming next.

Ditto.

I bought a mini teleprompter recently (my comment is further down), and it came with a free bluetooth remote. I'll now make a note not to keep it in my pocket (or at least make sure my pocket is out of frame...)

I just want to point out that these "no effort" videos are always well done and entertaining. If they really are less effort, I'd recommending working more of them into your schedule, as more frequent uploads will only help. Well done, as always.

the first several hundred episodes of linus tech tips have linus reaching into his pockets every 10 seconds, very disturbing. i really thought he had some kind of infection and was just itchy. eventually i figured out he had a wireless mouse and he was advancing the prompts. by putting his hand in his pocket. in front of a million subscribers. good talk.

nobody

As a British person, I've always used "teleprompter" and "autocue" fairly interchangeably!

Brad Jones

dance you dancy dancer

kn0tsin

I noticed in your video that the windows UI isn't mirrored. I don't know how often you actually need to navigate windows while in "Teleprompter mode", but UltraMon has an option to mirror the entire display: https://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/tour/mirroring.asp

Johnathan Chamberlain

"a weird guy with eyes that were shifty". LMAO!

Arthur Robillard

I always thought those clear pieces off to the sides for big important speakers were some kind of pressure zone microphones. I did once use an actual teleprompter. They come with a rotary control that someone else uses to regulate the flow of the text as the person who is reading it does so.

Arthur Robillard

Well, thank you for your videos! With the recent Youtube policies I think I'll patron the videomakers I like to watch the most and use adblock... I think that Patreon money will be more than YT ad revenues.

Our very first cable TV service was from TelePrompTer. It used the VHF tuning knob (!) and an A-B switch to give us - miracle of miracles - 24 channels! And I think it was, like, $9.95/mo.

Craig Brickey

oops, I thought I was clever posting this but hadn't watched the video yet

Adam Wishneusky

#noeffortnovember 😉

Adam Wishneusky

It's a keyboard / touchpad thingy

Technology Connections

Cool video! I have been curious about your set up. What do you have off screen to your right to reset the promoter which you make a mistake?

with US/UK words I tend to gravitate to the one with the least syllables. Elevator is my bette noir, as Lift has 25% of the syllables. So autocue must win out as it's shorter! I've found that with using a phone as my main camera, I can position another phone just behind the lens in portrait mode, and use a Bluetooth keyboard to manually advance it, displaying the text through Microsoft Word. I can position the keyboard just out of shot, and hit the down key to advance. Simple, and you don't see my eyes move and it looks like I'm looking straight into the camera.

Big Car

Lift joke was fantastic. I was waiting for the 'Autocue' note and I did whatever the 'watching a video' version of a double-take was.

Dominic Mulligan

Gerry Turpin invented a device called the Lightflex in 1972 which is kind of a "reverse" teleprompter that overlays color onto the image - only affecting the darker tomes and leaving the highlights alone. The cinematographer Freddie Francis used the device on David Lynch's Dune and other films.

Eric Basta

Growing up in central Indiana, the local independent channel, channel 4, had a host that would read the morning farm reports. His teleprompter must have been way too close, because you could easily see his eyes shifting back and forth as he read. At the time, I just thought he was a weird guy with eyes that were shifty. Only later did I realize that it was just him reading a TelePrompTer.

Jeff Groves

I thought the teleprompter thing was obvious and yet I totally never thought about the eye movement part, nor the beam-splitting glass. Thus thanks for the very informative video! I'd welcome more of these "low effort" videos.

Raphaël

Oh, wow. That 'lift' joke just about killed me. I think it might be your best joke yet.

Kevin Kostka

Ah nice! I wanted to show my parents how a teleprompter worked last week, now I have the material to do so.

OrionGamerCat

Ehh, that's very interesting. I have 0% information about teleprompters besides guessing.

Miguel Angel Opazo Arancibia

Thanks for sharing this! I honestly had wondered how your teleprompter setup worked as you manage to pull off the illusion so well. I never even considered that the camera was behind the glass but now it seems obvious.

Ian Spence