Script to teleprompter

1. Paste your script into the box. Paragraph breaks are kept.
2. Set the speed in words per minute. It matches the pace in the words to minutes calculator, so the estimated running time is accurate.
3. Pick a text size you can read comfortably from where you will sit.
4. Press Start. The prompter opens full screen, paused, with your first line on the reading guide. Press space or tap to begin.

Space

Play or pause

→ / ←

Faster or slower, 10 words per minute at a time

↓ / ↑

Move forward or back one line

Esc

Leave full screen, then close the prompter

• Put the screen as close to the lens as you can. The further your eyes travel from the camera, the more obvious the reading is.
• Read from the guide line. It sits a third of the way down, which keeps your gaze near the top of the screen and closer to a laptop or phone camera.
• Sit further back and make the text bigger. From a distance, your eyes move less to read the same line.
• Use mirror mode with a beam-splitter. If the screen sits under a glass in front of the lens, flip the text so the reflection reads correctly.

Scripts written to be read silently trip you up on camera. Keep sentences short, one idea each. Write numbers the way you say them, so “about two thirds”, not “66%”. Drop parentheses and asides, because you can’t say them out loud. Put a line break where you want to breathe, and the prompter will show it. Need a script to start from? The script generator writes a hook and outline in that style.