So in real life, on the phone the writing is all mirrored
when I put this in front of the teleprompter and you can see that the mirrored writing is reflected
in the glass so it reads the right way around I can't say that.
Right way around Under here is the tripod
thread and there's a metal... OHHH this is the Pronstoor
or Ambitful mini teleprompter it's a prompter that you can clip onto the lens
of your DSLR camera or as you will see with my experiment, maybe you can also clip it onto a Sony
ZV1 camera or even a Canon g7x mark ii or mark iii I’ll be showing you as much of this teleprompter
as possible to show you how it works, how it fixes to the camera and what kind of teleprompter
apps you can use with the supplied remote control this is how the Ambitful mini teleprompter arrives
let's see what's inside the box look at this!
if I told myself when I was a child that I would be unboxing an actual autocue I think I would have
been very excited and it's like a matte plastic if I give it a flick...
so it sounds less than premium but it looks pretty good in real life and it feels really really light
under here is the tripod thread and there's a metal oh!
okay so that's how it... it... unscrews I didn't know if
it was like spring loaded or anything and there's a kind of a rubber pad
to grip the phone but I’m really pleased with
this there's a cold shoe mount on the top you can pause the video if you'd like to
look at these the lens adapters to
fix your camera to the teleprompter hood these foam covers - if you wanted
to film with a phone or tablet and the thing that I’m looking forward to
the most I think, which is the remote control! Four buttons and a joystick... okay button on
the top... and it takes two AAA batteries now I’m feeling quite brave or possibly
incredibly stupid but I’m gonna put this ring onto my Sony ZV1 camera
I have a 52mm lens adapter ring but it's... it's stuck
on and it's literally stuck on with a sticky pad I don't think this is going to work but I’m going
to try it anyway just in case you're wondering if you can mount an Ambitful teleprompter onto a Sony
ZV1 with just a stuck on lens adapter ring so I’m recording on the... the Sony as well
before I inevitably smash the thing you can just slide
the hood onto the ring like this and if I look into the lens I’m in really
harsh daylight here so it's not the best test we'll take it indoors and do this properly in
a moment I thought it might be more picturesque out here
now what I love about this is it actually looks like a TV camera now
I grew up in the 80s and 90s wanting to work in TV and this I mean this
really looks like a TV camera now! the entire weight of the teleprompter
and my chunky case phone it's all putting the weight on this ring of double-sided sticky tape
I think having the rugged phone case is probably a good idea if this suddenly tears
off and collapses to the ground like... sorry my dog's going nuts digging a hole
if I suddenly fall out of shot it's because I’ve fallen into Casper’s hole here
So the Ambitful mini teleprompter or Pronstoor teleprompter is holding out really well
Let's get it indoors now so welcome to the happy hut and I found - woah!
nearly dropped it! I found my old android phone and
I put onto this the parrot teleprompter app there's a link to that in the description
there are all kinds of free prompter apps I’ve got my camera here hello this is
what the shot looks like before the prompter hood goes onto the camera
now the trick is to get the ring to slide into the clip on the back here
try and get my camera around so you can see what's going on
there so it clips on like this and because it's on this round hood clip you've got to kind of
straighten the prompter and there I am hello! this is what the picture looks like
with the hood on, so to me this is looking good but what do you think?
leave a comment down below it is so nice to not...
...to look at a TV style autocue rather than a tiny lens
so with my parrot teleprompter app I’m going to click on settings
and then I’m going to turn on mirror mode and then I’ll explain how this works just in
case you've not used the autocue before: so in real life on the phone this
is what it looks like the writing is all mirrored
when I put this in front of the teleprompter... I’ll slide this into the phone holder and you
can see that the mirrorred writing is reflected in the glass, so it reads the right way around!
I can't say that: “right way around” I’m going to straighten the teleprompter
you're now seeing me, which is me reading the words, and you can also see what I can see which
is what's coming off the Ambitful teleprompter the teleprompter also comes with this remote
control and there have been a lot of reviews saying it doesn't work
with their particular prompter app but it seems to be working great with me
so let's bring the camera around so you can literally see what I’m seeing
so rather elegantly I now have my DJI Osmo pocket over my shoulder and I can use the
remote control to scroll up and down now if I zoom in you can see what I’ve
got on the screen here: this script that comes with the parrot teleprompter app
so I’m just going to read a few lines the parrot teleprompter app is the companion
app for the parrot teleprompter, the world's most portable and affordable teleprompter
use the scripts manager to manage your scripts or add and delete new scripts
you can adjust various scroll settings by selecting the gear icon
wow it feels really... it feels so much easier to actually deliver to you into the camera lens down
the barrel rather than what I usually do which is to try and remember what I’m trying to say
and then I’m sort of eye flicking off to the monitor on the side to see if I’m in focus or
check that the thing is recording anyway it is so much easier and more reassuring
to have words in front of me and to make my eyeline meet those words
now this is incredible I downloaded the chrome
remote desktop app and I’ve linked it to my computer here and incredibly it's sending what's
happening on chrome on my computer to my phone now obviously I need to make the text supersize
so I can read that straight off my computer screen and I can scroll it with my mouse
while I’m delivering the script but I still don't have the text as a mirror image
you can see it's back to front, so then I got another chrome extension which is called mirror
I’ll leave a link in the description I’m not sure how safe this extension is
but it flips the chrome tab to be a mirror image
and now you can see that it is completely the right way round on the teleprompter for me
so I can scroll up and down or even view any web page that I like
the other thing that I can do now is to use the chrome remote desktop
to send a zoom call straight to the teleprompter and that means that I can see my zoom call
actually in my eye line right here in front of me I can maintain eye contact and see all the
participants right in front of my camera so I don't have to look down or pretend
to look at them by looking at my lens of course if you want to buy one from
amazon the links are all in the description and I’ll put all the links to the apps there as well
and I’ll change those if I find any better ones good luck with your autocue teleprompter Ron
Burgundy style reading. Stay classy San Diego!