Green/Blue Screen & TelePrompter Programme?

Grazie wrote on 2/8/2004, 12:33 AM
Hiyah! - About 10 months back, we had a thread going about a piece of softweare that did TellyPrompter and Screening in one functioning piece of s/w. The woman who was presenting it was . . well . . highly excited about the product . . . I'm now in a position and also have a possible job that would benefit from this . . Can anybody remember and provide a link .. please???

TIA - Grazie

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Grazie wrote on 2/8/2004, 2:09 AM
I've found it! "Visual Communicator" out of "Serious Magic" in Calif . .

Anybody used it . .with or without Vegas? - It used to be $99 .. it's now $199.95 for the WEB package and $399.95 for the PRO version . . hmmm . . .

TIA

Grazie
farss wrote on 2/8/2004, 5:45 AM
You could just use power point slide!
Job I just did the client made their own cue cards, one of the girls could have got a job reading the news she was so good, pity the rest of it was soooo bad!

Here's the idea I put up last time.

Get a little LCD monitor with an adaptor so it mounts on top of the camera and hook up to laptop running PP slideshow, no matter what software you use you're going to need something in line with the camera for the talent to read off.
Liam_Vegas wrote on 2/8/2004, 10:47 AM
Grazie

I have Visual Communicator Pro but I have always been disappointed with the teleprompter aspect of the software. It is fine when used the way designed but (in my experience) it is not setup to be a good standalone teleprompter (not sure if they improved it since I bought it about a year ago).

I recently stumped up and bought a real (physical) teleprompter (which works great) that included a simple (really really simple) teleprompter application that you can get a shareware copy of.

Link to download EZ-Reader software
RBartlett wrote on 2/8/2004, 4:03 PM
That $99 price was without the green screen material and microphone and was also restricted to sales in North America and adjacent territories. Also it was NTSC only at that time.

The software engineers were from Play, who made the GlobeCaster (Global Streams). Many of those engineers worked on the Amiga VideoToaster and fewer still on NewTek's PC VT1.0.

I'm assured that SeriousMagic folks are good software engineers and musicians too.

Their SeriousMagic's Ultra and Reflecmedia's Autocue might be a keener use for your £. Some of this depends on how transparent you want the reading to be by the talent and how far away your subject is from the lens.