Right here at DIYP HQ, we’re utilizing a teleprompter to chop down on takes and have a extra streamlined “speaking head”. Utilizing a prompter has considerably improved our workflow and lower down on recording and modifying occasions. On this tutorial, we’ll present you the way to add a distant management to nearly any pill prompter software program which is able to streamline your workflow much more.
Teleprompters have come a great distance because the introduction of tablets. Not so way back, you had to purchase a giant teleprompter system which may value 1000’s of {dollars}. However now, you may get an honest prompter for about 400 {dollars}, and use a pill as a monitor. The Datavideo TP-300 which we’re utilizing right here is a good instance for such a setup.
Some teleprompters have remotes, however this hack can add a distant to nearly any prompter app. Particularly, we checked out Parrot Prompter and Elegant Prompter that are among the many extra well-liked prompter apps on the market. However this hack will work with nearly any teleprompter app.
The one annoying factor with prompter apps is the necessity to swipe the pill to scroll up and down the textual content. However this may be solved fairly simply with a mini USB keyboard. These are fairly inexpensive, and simply accessible in numerous types, even in a distant management kind issue.
With a extra superior app just like the Elegant teleprompter, we have been capable of take it to the subsequent step and assign shortcuts to the most typical features like pace change, scrolling, zooming, and even leaping paragraphs again and ahead. undoubtedly definitely worth the $3 we paid for the app. Attending to this setup possibility is simple by clicking Settings -> Distant Settings, after which assigning every operate a button by urgent that button. (That is type of like establishing a gamer’s mouse).
The one different part you would wish is an OTG cable to attach the dongle that comes with the keyboard to the pill. These are fairly low cost as properly at about $7.
When you opted for one of many cheaper remotes, you’ll be able to add wi-fi management to your teleprompter for below $23
I’m curious if anybody right here is utilizing an analogous setup, so please tell us if you know the way this may be improved.