I just ran across this idea in another forum and thought someone might find this useful if you need a quick and dirty teleprompter.
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How To Make a Laptop Teleprompter
Here's how to create a scrolling marquee teleprompter on your laptop:
1. Write your script in a word processor, like Microsoft Word.
2. Open Notepad and cut and paste the following HTML code, then cut and paste your text between the [ ] within the HTML code:
<font size="15"><marquee bgcolor="white" font face="Helvetica" color="black" loop="-1" scrollamount="20" width="60%">[Vegas Pro 11 provides an efficient, intuitive and integrated content creation environment for video and broadcast professionals. Now featuring GPU-accelerated performance with OpenCL-supported devices, Vegas Pro 11 powers through video processing and rendering tasks with ease.]</marquee>
(You can control the scroll speed by changing the "scrollamount" value, lower values = slower, higher values = faster.)
3. Save it as an HTML page (such as "teleprompter.html") the quotes around the filename are important, without them, Notepad will add ".txt" to the filename.
To launch it, just double-click on the file and it will load into your default browser. It will scroll from right to left. To restart it, just hit the refresh button in your browser. You will also need to hit the refresh button when you make changes since the browser will have likely cached a copy.
You can view an example here:
http://www.johncline.com/teleprompter.html
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How To Make a Laptop Teleprompter
Here's how to create a scrolling marquee teleprompter on your laptop:
1. Write your script in a word processor, like Microsoft Word.
2. Open Notepad and cut and paste the following HTML code, then cut and paste your text between the [ ] within the HTML code:
<font size="15"><marquee bgcolor="white" font face="Helvetica" color="black" loop="-1" scrollamount="20" width="60%">[Vegas Pro 11 provides an efficient, intuitive and integrated content creation environment for video and broadcast professionals. Now featuring GPU-accelerated performance with OpenCL-supported devices, Vegas Pro 11 powers through video processing and rendering tasks with ease.]</marquee>
(You can control the scroll speed by changing the "scrollamount" value, lower values = slower, higher values = faster.)
3. Save it as an HTML page (such as "teleprompter.html") the quotes around the filename are important, without them, Notepad will add ".txt" to the filename.
To launch it, just double-click on the file and it will load into your default browser. It will scroll from right to left. To restart it, just hit the refresh button in your browser. You will also need to hit the refresh button when you make changes since the browser will have likely cached a copy.
You can view an example here:
http://www.johncline.com/teleprompter.html