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Notes on reading a script to camera: pacing, mirroring, remotes, and what the tools get wrong. From the people building the LensCue teleprompter.
Any Bluetooth presenter clicker is a teleprompter remote
A £15 presentation clicker is already a teleprompter remote — it sends the same keys. Which mode to put it in, and the one mode that will catch you out.
How many words is a 60-second script?
About 130 words, conversationally. Here is the whole table, from fifteen seconds to ten minutes, and the three things that make a real take run longer than the maths.
Is it safe to paste a confidential script into an online teleprompter?
Some scripts cannot go into a box you have not checked. Here is how to audit any web teleprompter yourself, in about two minutes, with DevTools and nothing else.
Teleprompter mirror mode: which flip does your rig need?
Glass reverses your text left-to-right, so the software has to reverse it first. Which setting for which rig — and what to do when your rig needs both.
Why a teleprompter scrolls faster than the words-per-minute it promises
A speed dial set to 130 words a minute can move your script at 200. We shipped that bug, found it, and fixed it — here is the arithmetic, and how to test any prompter in thirty seconds.