Check out wireless remote controlled teleprompting using a bluetooth-capable iPOD Touch 3G, iPhone and possibly an iPad.
Download the Teleprompt+ app for $4.99 to the device that will be next to the camera. This can be an iPod Touch 3rd Gen or an iPhone. (Will try an iPad next week.) The devices must have Bluetooth connectivity.
Download Remote+ for free to the controlling device...either an iPod Touch 3g or an iPhone.
Getting the script into the camera-end device is tricky. Apple really does not want text files being added to the latest generations of iPods. Easiest is to email the file to the device (here's where it being an iPhone would really help) then copy and paste into the Teleprompt+ app. Without the ability to receive email via 3G network, you need to do this in a WiFi area...not always available in the corporate environment. Of course, you can type the script in manually, too, but that is a pain on the Apple virtual keyboard.
Fire up the two apps, allow bluetooth control of the camera-end device and you have scroll speed and font size control remotely and wirelessly.
You can actually read an iPod from six feet away with the largest type, but not enough words may appear on screen at a time and it would be a lot easier to use the larger iPad as the camera device, assuming that works with this app. But if ultimate portability is needed and your subject is close enough to read smaller type, two iPods or two iPhones or an iPod and an iPhone will work.
Text can be mirrored for use with a semi-silvered glass beamsplitter or left direct for placing the iPad/iPod near the lens. Font color, background color and font style are adjustable.
Hey, for $4.99, it's a steal...if you already own the iPod anyway. I asked a friend who has an iPod Touch like mine to download the free Remote+ app while I downloaded the $4.99 Teleprompt+ part. Works like a charm. As I plan to get an iPhone4, and I'll still have my iPod Touch, it will give the Touch a purpose in life after the iPhone4 takes over all its current duties.
You can reduce the beamsplitter to about 8" square and still have plenty of size to read an iPod and probably an iPad. Also, having the width of text limited to the iPod screen size means the reader's eyes aren't scanning back an forth so noticeably.
Download the Teleprompt+ app for $4.99 to the device that will be next to the camera. This can be an iPod Touch 3rd Gen or an iPhone. (Will try an iPad next week.) The devices must have Bluetooth connectivity.
Download Remote+ for free to the controlling device...either an iPod Touch 3g or an iPhone.
Getting the script into the camera-end device is tricky. Apple really does not want text files being added to the latest generations of iPods. Easiest is to email the file to the device (here's where it being an iPhone would really help) then copy and paste into the Teleprompt+ app. Without the ability to receive email via 3G network, you need to do this in a WiFi area...not always available in the corporate environment. Of course, you can type the script in manually, too, but that is a pain on the Apple virtual keyboard.
Fire up the two apps, allow bluetooth control of the camera-end device and you have scroll speed and font size control remotely and wirelessly.
You can actually read an iPod from six feet away with the largest type, but not enough words may appear on screen at a time and it would be a lot easier to use the larger iPad as the camera device, assuming that works with this app. But if ultimate portability is needed and your subject is close enough to read smaller type, two iPods or two iPhones or an iPod and an iPhone will work.
Text can be mirrored for use with a semi-silvered glass beamsplitter or left direct for placing the iPad/iPod near the lens. Font color, background color and font style are adjustable.
Hey, for $4.99, it's a steal...if you already own the iPod anyway. I asked a friend who has an iPod Touch like mine to download the free Remote+ app while I downloaded the $4.99 Teleprompt+ part. Works like a charm. As I plan to get an iPhone4, and I'll still have my iPod Touch, it will give the Touch a purpose in life after the iPhone4 takes over all its current duties.
You can reduce the beamsplitter to about 8" square and still have plenty of size to read an iPod and probably an iPad. Also, having the width of text limited to the iPod screen size means the reader's eyes aren't scanning back an forth so noticeably.