About Prompter Manager

Most people recording to camera end up with scripts scattered across a notes app, a word processor and a few browser tabs, then read them off a second screen that scrolls at one fixed speed or not at all. The reading is the part that shows. Eyes drift down, the delivery flattens, and the take goes again.

The two problems turn out to be one problem. A prompter is only useful if the script is already in it, and a script library is only useful if you can read from it. So this keeps both in the same place: your scripts live here, and the prompter is one click from any of them.

The prompter fills the screen. No browser, no toolbars, nothing to catch your eye except the words you are about to say. A marker sits at the height you are reading from, and you can move it to wherever your eyeline actually falls.

You drive it while you record. Speed up, slow down, nudge back a line you fluffed, make the text bigger because you have stepped further from the screen. Change the size mid-take and you keep your place, rather than hunting for the line you were on. Every control has a key as well as a button, so a presenter clicker works just as well as a keyboard.

There are four colour schemes for different rooms and different lighting, and the image can be flipped for a teleprompter rig that reflects off glass. The controls fade away a few seconds after you start so they stay off camera, and come back the moment you move the mouse.

Scripts are written in plain text with simple marks for headings, emphasis and lists, and you see the result beside what you type. Paste from Word or Google Docs and the formatting comes across intact. If you would rather not remember the marks, the buttons above the editor add them for you.

Keep them in folders, tag them across folders, and search the whole text rather than just titles. Every script shows its word count and roughly how long it runs, so you know what you are walking into before you hit record.

You can save a version at any point, with a note to remind you what it was. Later you can read any earlier version in full and put it back. Restoring keeps what it replaces, so changing your mind twice is fine.

Scripts are private to the person who wrote them. There is no sharing and no public link, because a half-finished script is not something most people want discoverable.

Administrators can see every script and manage accounts, which is the trade for somebody having to run the thing. It is said here rather than buried, so nobody is surprised by it.