DIY videoblogger teleprompter
posted March 16th 2005 2:00PM
So you're a videoblogger who likes to prepare scripts ahead of time (aren't you?), but reading from a piece of paper positioned almost anywhere makes your recording look a bit unnatural. You'd love to get all Reagan on your audience, but you can't afford an expensive teleprompter. Max Rottersman has got the solution for you, which involves all of about $39.99 for some software and a few plastic CD cases (which you're likely interested in getting rid of at this point, anyway). A CD case positioned at a 45 degree angle from the laptop screen handles the "mirror" function to display the prepared text, and the webcam rolls on right through the clear plastic. Full instructions available on his site, so make like the Gipper and get your vlog act together next time, dig?
way too much time on his hands.
am i missing something or couldn't you just mount the camera on the top edge of the laptop lcd and then read from a word file - even better a flash mx scrooling teleprompter that reads in from text or xml...
How about using plexiglass instead.
How about using plexiglass instead.
first poster, you are missing that people watching you from the webcam would notice that you don't look at them, but just few inches bellow.
I'd say just get Vlog It!, which is a far more sophisticated product, with cool features like automatically putting in filmed inserts timed to coordinate with the teleprompter
Might this be a way to avoid the probs w/ iChat when you are constantly looking down at the screen and not up at the videocamera, resulting in a slight "stadium jumbotron/store security cam" problem? Looks compelling!
Might this be a way to avoid the "jumbotron/security cam" problem of looking slightly down @ the screen and not up @ the camera when doing an iChat?
yes! An excellent and creative solution to a common problem... This could easily be modified for iChat use... Nice work.