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"PromptDog is a great, easy to use simple solution."
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Teleprompters are great for getting everything said clearly and professionally.
Putting a half-silvered mirror in front of the camera is a good way to save the trouble of memorizing lengthy scripts and make shoots go faster, smoother and better. The talent can just look forward and read in a magical white scrolling text while looking straight down the barrel of the camera lens.
Even without a mirror, you can put a laptop below, or above, the camera to achieve almost the same thing.
Professional teleprompters usually cost more than a thousand dollars and are not always well designed. They usually include either a small monitor or box with mirror.
We consider this highway robbery, since small LCD monitors can be purchased for under $100, and half-silvered mirrors and boxes are not too expensive.
PromptDog is a software-only teleprompter, designed by DVcreators.net, one of the world’s most respected video training companies.
We used our actual shoots and tweaked extensively on the set and afterwards until it worked perfectly to our very high standards.
If the talent is not operating the teleprompter, PromptDog offers a second resizable window that can be positioned on a second monitor with perfectly synchronized scrolling so you can operate the prompter for your talent.
One awesome new feature is the timer showing not only how long you’ve been reading, but with a feature only found on the most expensive teleprompters, which is the total estimated read time, based on the length of the script and how fast you’re reading through it.
All controls for text size, font, line spacing and inverting text for black-on-white display are easily accessible right on the main page – no hunting for preferences or searching through menus.
In PromptDog, you can colorize specific sections of your script for designating different sections for multiple speakers or putting emphasis on specific words.
Wording sound a little awkward in a section? Want to make an on-the-spot script revision? This is very common. No hassle. Just click the edit button, make your change, click done and keep prompting!
Have a long script and want to jump to a certain phrase without scrolling and scrolling and scrolling? Use the QuickSearch feature, available both in the Edit Window and the Operator Window, to instantly jump where you want.
Instead of using noisy keystrokes, PromptDog uses your mouse scroll wheel or laptop trackpad, for very quiet and responsive, easily adjustable scrolling speed. (Although if you don’t have a scroll wheel or trackpad, up and down arrow keys work also!).
When the talent flubs a line, just a flick of your finger backward on the mouse wheel and the text will rapidly skip back a few lines at warp speed so you can retake the section, unlike other prompters where you have to work very hard to scroll back a few lines.
Is the eyeline indicator a little high or low? Just click on it and drag to reposition – the change is automatically mirrored in the second window. Or make it more transparent or opaque. You can also choose to have the eyeline indicator on the left, right or both sides of the prompter window.
For the ultimate in professional teleprompting, with one click, the text on the talent window can be reversed, so with a second monitor, a couple cardboard boxes, a black T-shirt to drape around your lens and a half-silvered mirror, you have a simple, very inexpensive but highly effective teleprompter – the same that we use on our shoots! You can use any font and accented characters, even right-reading languages.
one-time purchase
drag ‘n’ drop or menu import
mouse scroll wheel operation
trackpad operation
arrow key operation
change font
text size
text line spacing
invert background
search field in Operator Windos
QuickRewind
movable eyeline indicator
the ability to save user settings and scripts with Profiles
mirror support for any font and accented characters
invert scroll direction
separate, synchronized Talent Window
script editor
can colorize words, phrases
can save edited script
search field in Edit Window
eyeline indicator on left, right or both
eyeline indicator opacity
script timer
realtime estimated total read time
