Free tool
Teleprompter
Paste a script and read it full screen at your own pace, mirrored if you use a glass prompter.
Most people can talk for an hour with a friend and freeze in front of a lens. Pause The fix is small, and it starts with where your eyes go. In the next two minutes I will show you exactly how.
When you read from a page beside the camera, your eyes drift sideways. Viewers cannot point to it, but they feel it. The video starts to feel distant, a little rehearsed, a little cold. Pause A prompter puts the words right where you are already looking, so the camera gets your face instead of your profile.
This script runs 2:00 at 150 wpm
Sample
When you read from a page beside the camera, your eyes drift sideways. Viewers cannot point to it, but they feel it. The video starts to feel distant, a little rehearsed, a little cold. Pause A prompter puts the words right where you are already looking, so the camera gets your face instead of your profile.
First, slow down. Most scripts are written to be read, not spoken, so say each line out loud once before you record. If a sentence needs a breath in the middle, mark it. Pause Second, make the words big enough that you never lean in. If you catch yourself squinting, raise the size one step instead of moving closer. Third, narrow the lines. Short lines keep your eyes moving down instead of across, and that is what makes it look natural. Try it with your own words and you will see the difference within a minute.
Set the speed to a pace you could hold in a conversation. Run the countdown, take a breath, and start on the first word. Pause When you make a mistake, do not apologize and do not stop. Pause, go back to the start of the sentence, and say it again. Your editor will thank you later, and so will your viewers.
When you read from a page beside the camera, your eyes drift sideways. Viewers cannot point to it, but they feel it. The video starts to feel distant, a little rehearsed, a little cold. Pause A prompter puts the words right where you are already looking, so the camera gets your face instead of your profile.
First, slow down. Most scripts are written to be read, not spoken, so say each line out loud once before you record. If a sentence needs a breath in the middle, mark it. Pause Second, make the words big enough that you never lean in. If you catch yourself squinting, raise the size one step instead of moving closer. Third, narrow the lines. Short lines keep your eyes moving down instead of across, and that is what makes it look natural. Try it with your own words and you will see the difference within a minute.
Set the speed to a pace you could hold in a conversation. Run the countdown, take a breath, and start on the first word. Pause When you make a mistake, do not apologize and do not stop. Pause, go back to the start of the sentence, and say it again. Your editor will thank you later, and so will your viewers.
This script runs 2:00 at 150 wpm
300 spoken words. Section names and [pause] cues are not spoken, so they are not counted. The gold ticks below are the pause cues.
- 0:00Hook0:16
- 0:16The problem0:22
- 0:38Three habits0:38
- 1:16What to do next0:24
- 1:40Close0:20
4 pause cues
Read your own script on camera
- Paste a script and read it full screen at your own pace
- Speed in words a minute, with the time left
- Mirror and flip for a glass prompter
- Keyboard controls, and your script saved on your device
Using it with a camera
- Laptop or tablet
- Put the screen as close to the lens as you can. On a laptop the camera sits above the screen, so narrow the line width and raise the reading line. On a tablet, prop it directly under the lens: portrait for a narrow line, landscape for a wider one.
- Glass prompter
- The glass reflects the screen, which reverses the text left to right. Turn on Mirror horizontally so it reads correctly in the reflection. If the text still looks upside down, switch on Flip vertically as well, then run one short test before a real take.
- Distance and text size
- Start at 44 px text, about an arm's length away. If you lean in or squint, make the text one step bigger with the ] key instead of moving closer. Each step is 4 px.
- Eyes near the lens
- Short lines keep your eyes moving down instead of across. Write [pause] where you want to look straight into the lens, and tick Pause at [pause] cues so the text waits for you.
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