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teleprompters
While I thinking about it, anyone have recommendations on teleprompters? Or ideas for some sort of workaround that’ll work better than giant cue cards that have the speaker looking slightly off camera? This was driving me nuts this morning on a project…
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Take a look at the products from Prompter People. I checked out their booth at NAB and was reasonably impressed with them. Prices are decent too.
I say “reasonably” because there’s obviously much higher quality gear out there but the price also reflects that. -
Looks like good stuff. Thanks for the info.
Steven
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More cool stuff. What do you think of that steddiepod? The features look great! Think it does a good job of all those different things?
sjc
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Steven,
Recently a PA dropped my 9″ Sony production monitor and destroyed it. I was sick of lugging the danged thing around anyhow, and decided to get an LCD monitor to replace it. Have a look at what I found:
https://www.ikancorp.com/pt1000.htm
Like any LCD, it’s not a critical monitor, but it’s pretty darned good and sharp, and with a laptop, you’ve always got a prompter in your kit, as well as a production monitor, on-camera monitor, or even a second 800×600 VGA screen for your laptop, and everything you need to do this comes with the kit (except the proper mounting hardware for a pro camera which can be purchased for $10 to adapt it). I picked it up with a $25 sunscreen and shipping for under $700.
Ron Shook
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That looks really cool as well. I’ll be calling some of these companys in the morning for more info. Thanks guys!
Steven
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I use Prompt! https://www.movieclip.biz/prompt.html I paid $22 bucks for it, now its $44. But it works well pc/mac. I pick up a cheap laptop on ebay, and bought a laptop stand for it also.
Use a wireless keyboard and mouse and your are set.
Mark
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I have used a laptop computer placed below the camera.
Charlie
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Charlie,
[charles] “I have used a laptop computer placed below the camera.”
It must be above the camera lens, because the look down doesn’t work. If the subject is looking up and not too near the camera lens, it’s impossible to tell that he/she isn’t looking directly into the lens, but it’s quite possible to tell if the laptop is below the lens and looks a bit shifty besides.
Ron Shook
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